On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Angela Rachidi, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, joins Mike to discuss whether a reformed and refundable child tax credit can reduce poverty. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber reviews a study investigating a cost-effective high-dosage tutoring intervention.

Recommended content:

• “How to actually triumph over poverty” —Angela Rachidi, National Review
• “The child tax credit: 25 years later” —Angela Rachidi, Senate Committee on Finance
• “Congress is about to do something amazing: agree to invest in kids” —Catherine Rampell, Washington Post
• Kalena Cortes, Karen Kortecamp, Susanna Loeb, and Carly D. Robinson, “A Scalable Approach to High-Impact Tutoring for Young Readers: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial,” Annenberg Institute at Brown University (January 2024).

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