Michael Karpman

Oct 29, 2024 | urban.org | Michael Karpman |Erik Wengle |Fredric Blavin |Sarah Morriss

In this brief, we draw on in-depth interviews with key stakeholders to assess early experiences with state medical debt protection laws enacted since 2020 in four states: Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, and New Mexico. The new protections in these states build on federal law in various ways and represent some of the most comprehensive approaches taken in recent years to bolster regulation of hospital financial assistance and debt collection actions.

Jul 9, 2024 | healthaffairs.org | Scott Landes |Bonnielin K. Swenor |Melissa Clark |Jean Hall |Amanda Hermans |Catherine Ipsen | +7 more

Nearly 27 percent of US adults have a disability, with evidence that rates of disability have been increasing over time, . For some people, disability is congenital; for others, disability is acquired at some point between childhood and older age. Some disabled people weave their disability into their identity; others do not. And although many disabled people experience functional limitations, this is not the case for all disabled people.

Jan 10, 2024 | taxpolicycenter.org | Nikhita Airi |Michael Karpman

Fast-approaching government shutdown deadlines in Congress are providing renewed momentum for an expansion of the Child Tax Credit (CTC). A targeted CTC expansion would deliver critical economic relief to families with children, and particularly families with low incomes, who were among those hardest hit by rising prices in the past several years.

Jan 10, 2024 | taxpolicycenter.org | Elaine Maag |Michael Karpman |Douglas A. Wissoker |Hannah Daly

BiographyElaine Maag is on leave from the Urban Institute and Tax Policy Center from December 2023 to January 2025. Elaine Maag is a senior fellow in the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center at the Urban Institute and a codirector of Innovations in Cash Assistance for Children. She is an expert on the taxation of low- and middle-income families.

Jan 10, 2024 | taxpolicycenter.org | Dulce Gonzalez |Elaine Maag |Michael Karpman |Robert McClelland