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From Budget analysis to election calculators, see how PolicyEngine helped inform the national conversation in 2024.
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New analysis of @KamalaHarris's Child Tax Credit proposal:
* $117B cost in 2025
* Benefits 44% of population
* Cuts child poverty by 31%
* Reduces Gini index by 1.4%
Behavioral responses shift these numbers by 5-6%.
Read the full breakdown: policyengine.org/us/research…
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Last week, our CEO @MaxGhenis showcased how PolicyEngine integrates AI into our platform at the @NatlTax Spring Symposium. From enhancing microdata with gradient descent to answering computational policy questions with LLMs, we’re pushing the boundaries of policy analysis.
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Excited to showcase PolicyEngine at this Georgetown event! 🚀
We'll demo how our open-source tax-benefit model empowers evidence-based democracy - aiding households, informing policymakers, and enabling developers.
Feb 22, 2PM ET on Zoom. Register here: georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/r…
Join us on Feb 22, 2024 for the next Rules As Code Roundtable.
Connect with fellow practitioners working on U.S. benefits eligibility policy, digital systems, & rules implementation.
#DigitizingPolicy #RulesAsCode for #PublicBenefits
beeckcenter.org/RaCRTFeb22
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🚀 This #GivingTuesday, join us in promoting:
1️⃣ Evidence-based policymaking
2️⃣ Transparent taxes and benefits
3️⃣ Accessible safety net programs
Your support fuels our open-source mission! ✨
💙 Donate here: policyengine.org/us/donate
Contributions are tax-deductible in the US.
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Last week, we attended the Social Safety Net Product Studio Convening and came away inspired! Thanks to @SchmidtFutures for making it happen.
At PolicyEngine, we're harnessing tech to help households, policymakers, and developers compute the impact of safety net benefits.
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Playing around with the @PSLmodels tax model. Awesome that it's open source, great to be exploring the guts of an OOP policy project line-by-line for the first time in forever.
github.com/PSLmodels/Tax-Cal…
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This new @BeeckDBN report on #RulesAsCode features @PolicyEngineUS:
"Because PolicyEngine supports a wide range of programs and holds information about tax policy as well as benefits, it contains significantly more data than the other tools we analyzed." digitalbenefitshub.org/explo…
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🚀 Introducing our game-changing GPT-4 integration and personalized audience modes! Experience AI-powered policy analysis like never before. Dive in now! 🔍📊 policyengine.org/us/blog/202…
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📣Meet PolicyEngine's Etch-a-Sketch Policy Designer! Draw your ideal policy reform by illustrating how programs change with income levels. Witness your creation come to life as a fully-formed policy! ✏️📈
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Our new PolicyEngine US web app is now out of beta and better than ever! Check out the blog post to see all the new features: policyengine.org/us/blog/the…
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Looking to learn how to use PolicyEngine? Our @YouTube channel has several short tutorial videos on estimating your own taxes and benefits, designing policy reforms, and computing policy impacts.
youtube.com/@policyengine
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Over 7 million low-income elderly and disabled Americans claim over $50 billion in Supplemental Security Income each year, but there's never been a tool for people to estimate how much they'll get. We've changed that. blog.policyengine.org/estima…
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With Dynare folks moving to Julia (github.com/DynareJulia/Dynar…), you can expect to see more of this. In fact, they are looking to hire #julialang developers, so if you're interested see (discourse.julialang.org/t/th…). This work wasn't with that group, but we collaborate!
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This past week, @john_stachurski and @WinantPablo held a workshop on scientific computing in #Python and #JuliaLang at the Central Bank of Chile (@bcentralchile). Materials available here: github.com/QuantEcon/cbc_wor…
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Books
Jupyter Book is a tool for building publication-quality books and documents.
Start by building the notebook and finish by publishing as a website or exported as a PDF file.
mljar.com/blog/how-to-use-ju…
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Save the date! On September 10, we'll join @DemocracyLab's first hybrid tech-for-good hackathon.
democracylab.org/events/64
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PolicyEngine users can now estimate the impact of federal tax and benefit reforms on nine states, in addition to nationwide. This demo shows how to compute the impact of a federal tax rate cut on Washington state. youtu.be/gn5cJ24Vzzo
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I am giving @PSLmodels Demo Day webcast presentation tomorrow (Monday) 11:30a-noon ET: "The Secret Sauce of Stitching Functions: Parametric Functions for Natural and Smooth Imputation". Join the Zoom meeting:
Meeting ID: 970 8104 7054
Passcode: 334148
zoom.us/j/97081047054?pwd=bF…
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This is the first report to use our OpenFisca US microsimulation model! 🎉 ubicenter.org/california-veh…




















