About the New Practice Lab

Using Human Services administrative data to better connect eligible residents to tax credits in Illinois

The policy team offered a memo to the Child Poverty Action Lab on the potential use of medical financial partnerships and managed care organizations.

Mapping the landscape of knowledge on barriers to tax filing and credit claiming

In order to understand the successes and failures of the Build Back Better Act, the policy team facilitated a retrospective with a number of experts to post-mortem the bill language and activites that were completed to improve the text - identifying what helped to strengthen the language, areas where we'll still need to improve the way certain components are written, and topics that need further research.

Increasing uptake of maternity leave through navigators in healthcare settings

State of New Jersey Department of Labor

Oct 2024 - Present

The policy team provided redline feedback for Senator Patty Murray's office on the drafted Child Care for Working Families Act.

As a follow-up to a meeting hosted by Treasury and IRS, NPL offered a memo with ideas on increasing uptake for outreach and credit uptake strategies for those undertaking tax credits.