Max Ghenis
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Democratizing evidence-based policy @ThePolicyEngine
Washington, DC
Joined January 2011
RT @PolicyEngineUS: NEW: PolicyEngine has simulated individual income tax provisions of the final reconciliation bill. Compared to current….
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Don't say I didn't warn you
🆕 We've launched the OBBBA Household Explorer—an interactive tool showing how the reconciliation bill affects individual households across America. Explore 40,000+ representative households from our microsimulation-grade dataset:
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Bikeshare for All has a cliff at the income limit for SNAP, Medicaid, or other means-tested programs.
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Effective August 1, @bikeshare is changing its pricing, giving Bikeshare for All members (means-tested) a $40/mo credit, in addition to a $115/y membership discount and cheaper e-bike rides. For full users, that's a $595+ annual benefit--and it's got a cliff.
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imagining a vegan who won’t drink nyc’s tap water because of the microscopic shrimp.
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Open source models would solve this.
New CEA analysis of the Senate version of the One Big Beautiful Bill finds that it will raise economic growth, boost wages and take-home pay, and lead to reduced deficits and a lower federal debt burden.
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Compared to (likely) global depopulation, population growth through 2200 would raise temperatures by under 0.1 degrees C.
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Lowering training or instructional hours requirements for cosmetology licensing:.- Raises completion.- Lowers tuition.- Expands enrollment among some groups of students.- Does not affect earnings
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RT @riccoja: The House and Senate are still negotiating over key tax provisions. Where they end up is a question with meaningful distributi….
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RT @PolicyEngineUS: New: @Arnold_Ventures used PolicyEngine to compare taxes between TCJA expiration and House & Senate reconciliation bill….
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Speaking of, why weren't there more conditional markets around the presidential election? This is the only one around Iran on Manifold, finding on election day that Trump's election results in 4% higher chance of obtaining a nuclear weapon by 2030. But what about military action?
I capped off my NYC trip by asking AIs, which top mayoral candidate's election would produce the most housing?. All six AIs agreed: Cuomo.
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More in the full post, including the models' uncertainty and rationale.
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I capped off my NYC trip by asking AIs, which top mayoral candidate's election would produce the most housing?. All six AIs agreed: Cuomo.
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Have any prominent supporters of "Globalize the Intifada" condemned the violence against civilians of the Second Intifada?.
Mamdani, on The Bulwark podcast, says ‘Globalize the Intifada’ chant signifies, to him, a call for Palestinian human rights. Adds: “The word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising into Arabic — because it’s a word that means struggle.”
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RT @George_A_Callas: On SALT:. Thanks to @PolicyEngineUS we can see that families (married w/ at least 1 kid) making $250k or $500k living….
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