Memo to Policy Councils: Improving SSI and Social Security Benefits to Reduce Child Poverty
In combination with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the New Practice Lab team drafted a policy on steps the Social Security Administration could take to reduce child povery by improving enrollment in Social Security and Supplemental Security Income benefits for children.
Memo to CPAL: Potential Use of Medical Financial Partnerships and Managed Care Organizations
The policy team offered a memo to the Child Poverty Action Lab on the potential use of medical financial partnerships and managed care organizations.
Retrospective: Childcare and Paid Leave in Build Back Better Legislative Text Versions
In order to understand the successes and failures of the Build Back Better Act, the policy team facilitated a retrospective with a number of experts to post-mortem the bill language and activites that were completed to improve the text - identifying what helped to strengthen the language, areas where we'll still need to improve the way certain components are written, and topics that need further research.
Input to Senator Wyden: "End Confusing Government Services Act"
The New Practice Lab team was asked to provide input on a drafted bill to improve and enable more customer research under the Paperwork Reduction Act for Senator Wyden's office.
Input to Senator Murray: "Child Care for Working Families Act"
The policy team provided redline feedback for Senator Patty Murray's office on the drafted Child Care for Working Families Act.
Memo to Treasury: Increasing Refundable Tax Credit Uptake
As a follow-up to a meeting hosted by Treasury and IRS, NPL offered a memo with ideas on increasing uptake for outreach and credit uptake strategies for those undertaking tax credits.