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Explore how policy reforms reduce child poverty

Enter your household details and see how CTC expansions, EITC reforms, SNAP changes, and state programs could affect your family across all 50 states.

What You Can Do

Explore comprehensive policy analysis tools designed for researchers, policymakers, and advocates.

Model Policy Reforms

Simulate Child Tax Credit expansions, EITC reforms, SNAP modifications, child allowances, and state-specific programs with granular controls.

50-State Analysis

Compare reform impacts across all 50 states and DC. Identify which states benefit most and where resources are most effectively deployed.

Comprehensive Metrics

View fiscal costs, poverty reduction rates, distributional effects by income decile, and cost-effectiveness analysis for each reform scenario.

Available Policy Reforms

Explore a comprehensive suite of federal and state policy levers.

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Child Tax Credit (CTC)

Expand benefits by amount, age eligibility (prenatal-3, 0-5, 0-17), income basis, and phaseout structure.

Earned Income Tax Credit

Individualization options, percentage expansions, and eligibility modifications for workers.

Child Allowance

Per-child cash payments by age tier, with optional income phaseouts.

SNAP Modifications

Benefit increases, eligibility expansions, and asset test changes.

State CTCs

Create or expand state-level Child Tax Credits across all 50 states.

Federal CTC & EITC

Preset federal reforms: restore the 2021 expanded CTC, the American Family Act, the Tax Cuts for Workers Act, and the Working Parents Tax Relief Act.