The stakes in Turkey’s upcoming election, an enhanced Child Tax Credit, and reforming costly agricultural policies.
| The political economy of reforming costly agricultural policies Globally, many agricultural policies have helped reduce hunger and poverty, but they also have fostered production systems that threaten environmental sustainability and contribute to poor diets. Danielle Resnick, Rob Vos, and Will Martin explain why agricultural policy is intensely political and outline a starting point for reform. Read more |
| How to fight poverty and boost work with an enhanced Child Tax Credit Despite a noted reduction in child poverty attributable to the Child Tax Credit (CTC), Congress let the expanded CTC expire last year over policy disagreements. Melissa S. Kearney and Wendy Edelberg discuss the legislative sticking points and offer a proposal that maintains the overall anti-poverty effects of the 2021 expansion while encouraging the labor force participation of low-income parents. Read in The Hill |
| Listen: What’s at stake in Turkey’s elections? Turkey’s upcoming elections will have consequences not only for Turkey, but for the world. On the latest episode of The Current, Aslı Aydintaşbaş sits down with host Adrianna Pita to assess how public opinion of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has shifted after the recent devastating earthquakes and why the political opposition has coalesced around Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. Listen to the podcast |
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