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CEPR explores economic policies that affect the US health care and welfare systems. Visit the coronavirus issue page for our latest on the pandemic.

CEPR explora las políticas económicas que impactan los sistemas de salud y de bienestar de los Estados Unidos. Visite la página de problemas de coronavirus para conocer lo último sobre la pandemia.

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CoronavirusEconomic Crisis and RecoveryHealth and Social ProgramsUS The Impact of the Pandemic on Young People’s Employment and Economic Security

Young people’s employment rate has been trending down over the past several decades. Then the pandemic hit.

Shawn Fremstad Hye Jin Rho / May 28, 2020

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Health and Social ProgramsInequalityUS The Impact of Upward Redistribution on Social Security Solvency (2020 Update)

Hayley Brown Dean Baker / May 27, 2020

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Health and Social ProgramsUS In Defense of the Earned Income Tax Credit

This is a response to a recent critique by Matt Bruenig of the People’s Policy Project that has provoked a renewed scrutiny of EITC by the left.

CEPR / May 26, 2020

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GovernmentHealth and Social ProgramsUS Should Progressives Abandon the Earned Income Tax Credit?

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is an annual means-tested money benefit available to eligible tax units with earned income and administered through the tax system. In 2019, about 25 million tax units received a total of $63 billion in benefits from th

Shawn Fremstad / May 26, 2020