Luisa Godinez-Puig

Jul 10, 2024 | taxpolicycenter.org | Aravind Boddupalli |Luisa Godinez-Puig |Robert McClelland |Livia Mucciolo

Refundable tax credits like the child tax credit (CTC) and earned income tax credit (EITC) are proven policy tools for reducing poverty and improving health and educational outcomes for millions of families across the country. However, both legislation and administrative practices prevent many undocumented and mixed-status immigrant families from accessing these benefits.

Jun 4, 2024 | flipboard.com | Luisa Godinez-Puig |Brian Smedley

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Feb 28, 2024 | taxpolicycenter.org | Richard C. Auxier |Nikhita Airi |Elaine Maag |Luisa Godinez-Puig

Nikhita Airi is a research associate in the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center and a contributor to the Urban Institute’s State and Local Finance Initiative. Her research focuses on the earned income tax credit and child tax credit, state income and sales taxes, and federal grants to state and local governments.

Sep 18, 2023 | brookings.edu | Tonantzin Carmona |Luisa Godinez-Puig

Editor's note: Language is constantly evolving. Reflecting the fluidity of labels used within the Latino community, the following terms are used across the article, often interchangeably: Hispanic, Latine, Latino, and Latinx. By no means is this list exhaustive. Over the last several years, two important economic trends in the United States have become intertwined.

Mar 23, 2023 | shelterforce.org | Luisa Godinez-Puig |Gabriella Garriga |Yonah Freemark

Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, a suburban community east of Detroit, and Hudson, Ohio, located between Akron and Cleveland, are 200 miles apart and in different states. But the communities share a distinction: they belong to a cohort of the nation’s most exclusionary cities and towns. This means that, despite considerable demand from would-be new residents to live there, they have mounted barriers to new housing construction through overly restrictive land-use rules.