(May 2025) - The Child and Dependent Care Credit (CDCC) subsidizes child care costs for working families. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 increased the CDCC'...

A conversation with expert Gabrielle Pepin

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Changes to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program could leave five states that provide cash assistance to about 50,000 families out of compliance with federal requirements, new research…

Work requirements are perhaps the most controversial aspect of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, America’s sole federal cash assistance program for low-income families with c...

Pepin: Doubling the tax credit could bring immediate relief to parents, offset recent price increases, and boost mothers’ employment rates.

New research shows that regional universities deliver the greatest return for our tax dollars. So of course we starve them of funds.

A decade ago, the city — and all of Michigan — had too many houses. Now it has a shortage. The shift there explains today’s costly housing market in the rest of the country.

America is at a crossroads in its approach to work and retirement. Many policymakers think it's logical-almost inevitable-that Americans will delay retirement and spend more years in the paid labor fo...

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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer plans to call for a tax credit for caregivers that would provide up to $5,000 off their taxes to cover caregiving expenses.

The WFRN seeks a Director of its Early Career Fellowship Program.  The Early Career Fellowship Program provides support for recent doctoral recipients to advance their research, teaching, and long-te...

Alfonso Flores-Lagunes has been named the Upjohn Institute vice president and director of research. Flores-Lagunes is a professor of economics at the Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship ...

Early Career Work and Family Fellowship Program The Work and Family Researchers Network is committed to mentoring the next generation of work and family scholars. Our Early Career Fellowship Progra...