Innovations in Cash Assistance, a partnership between the Opportunity Lab, the Urban Institute, and the California Policy Lab, supports new research projects on the impact of the 2021 expansion of the Child Tax Credit. In addition to generating important findings on how this expansion of cash assistance benefitted families, the initiative has brought together a new consortium of researchers and stakeholders to develop new priorities for research on cash assistance, and how state and federal safety net policy can promote long-term economic security for families with children. Led at UC Berkeley by Hilary Hoynes, this initiative is providing important guidance for the next generation of research on child and family economic security.

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