Jun
25
10:00pm
Simulating and advocating for child allowances
By The BIG Conference
The one-year Child Tax Credit expansion has opened the floodgates of child benefit policy discussions. In this session, researchers Max Ghenis and Yash Vijay summarize the impact of Senator Mitt Romney's Family Security Act using the PolicyEngine policy computation software, and Maryland Child Alliance founder Nate Golden shares how he's applying data to advocate for state-level child allowances.
Speakers
Max Ghenis, UBI Center / PolicyEngine
Max Ghenis is the founder and president of the UBI Center, a think tank researching basic income policies, and the co-founder and CEO of PolicyEngine, a nonprofit that builds open-source software to compute the impact of public policy. He holds a B.A. in Operations Research from UC Berkeley and an M.S. in Development Economics from MIT.
Yash Vijay, PolicyEngine
Yash Vijay is a research assistant at PolicyEngine and a high school student in Illinois. He has created the TANF program rules in the OpenFisca US microsimulation model, and is interested in child and family welfare policy.
Nate Golden, Maryland Child Alliance
Nate is a high school math teacher in Baltimore City Schools and the President of the Maryland Child Alliance. While he has spent his entire career as a full-time teacher, he has always done part-time policy work. Before founding the Maryland Child Alliance, Nate worked as a policy analyst at the UBI Center focusing his research on child poverty.
Moderator
Justin Williams, Humanity Forward
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