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Niskanen’s experts engage in policy research and development focusing on family economic security. They promote ideas and arguments that help ensure public policy innovations benefit children, their families, and the American economy, using advocacy and public policy reform strategies that cut across partisan lines.
State allies can call on Niskanen Center to:
This includes traditional paid family leave programs as well as newborn tax credit (“baby bonus” policies) and social assistance (“At-Home Infant Care” policies) approaches.
This includes helping you understand the current tax landscape in your state, the various policy levers involved, and their impact on families.
Advocates in red and purple states face unique environments. We can help craft messages that resonate with a broad and bipartisan coalition of advocates and policymakers and think through potential coalition partners beyond the usual suspects.
Potential policy details can often change quickly during policy negotiations. We can help you understand which aspects of a policy could be revised to keep it moving along without losing policy efficacy.
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