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    "title": "Two-child limit calculator",
    "description": "Explore policy reforms to the two-child benefit limit and their impacts on households, government spending, and child poverty.",
    "date": "2025-10-28",
    "tags": ["uk", "featured", "policy", "interactives"],
    "filename": "uk-two-child-limit-comparison-dummy.md",
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    "image": "young-child-exemption-two-child-limit.jpg",
    "authors": ["vahid-ahmadi"]
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    "title": "Marginal tax rates in California's proposed billionaire tax",
    "description": "The 5% tax creates marginal tax rates between 50% and 60% on wealth between $1 billion and $1.1 billion.",
    "date": "2025-10-25",
    "tags": ["us"],
    "filename": "california-billionaire-tax-marginal-rates.md",
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    "authors": ["max-ghenis"]
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  {
    "title": "Comparing PolicyEngine and official UK poverty rates",
    "description": "We compare PolicyEngine poverty estimates with official DWP statistics and explain the methodological factors behind the differences.",
    "date": "2025-10-10 11:00:00",
    "tags": ["uk", "policy", "featured"],
    "authors": ["vahid-ahmadi"],
    "filename": "uk-poverty-analysis.md",
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  {
    "title": "How removing the two-child benefit limit would affect the UK",
    "description": "Removing the two-child limit would cost £2.8 billion in 2026-27 and reduce child poverty by 15.7%.",
    "date": "2025-10-06 11:00:00",
    "tags": ["uk", "policy", "featured"],
    "authors": ["vahid-ahmadi"],
    "filename": "uk-two-child-limit.md",
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  {
    "title": "How we used Claude Code to choose our DC office",
    "description": "We used Claude Code to build an interactive comparison tool for choosing our DC office. The winner: Open Gov Hub. Join us Oct 22 to celebrate!",
    "date": "2025-10-05",
    "tags": ["us", "org", "ai"],
    "authors": ["max-ghenis", "daphne-hansell"],
    "filename": "dc-office-ai-coding.md",
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  {
    "title": "Introducing ACA-Calc: Calculate your household's premium tax credits",
    "description": "New interactive calculator shows how Affordable Care Act subsidies affect households under current enhanced schedule and original schedule.",
    "date": "2025-09-30",
    "tags": ["us", "policy", "featured", "healthcare", "interactives"],
    "authors": ["daphne-hansell"],
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  {
    "title": "How carbon tax and dividend policies affect UK households",
    "description": "PolicyEngine analysis of £100/200 per tonne carbon taxes with full dividend redistribution shows approximately 71% of UK residents would gain.",
    "date": "2025-09-30 11:00:00",
    "tags": ["uk", "policy", "featured"],
    "authors": ["vahid-ahmadi"],
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    "title": "Enhanced Premium Tax Credits: Analyzing Household Impacts of an Extension Beyond 2025",
    "description": "PolicyEngine analyzes extending the enhanced premium tax credits enacted through the American Rescue Plan Act beyond their 2025 expiration.",
    "date": "2025-09-30",
    "tags": ["us", "policy", "featured", "healthcare"],
    "authors": ["daphne-hansell"],
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    "title": "Event: PolicyEngine 2.0 and the Future of Public Policy Analysis",
    "description": "Join us on the afternoon of November 3rd in London for an exclusive showcase of PolicyEngine's latest innovations in evidence-based policy analysis, featuring live demos and networking.",
    "date": "2025-09-12",
    "tags": ["uk", "org", "featured", "event"],
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    "authors": ["max-ghenis"]
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  {
    "title": "PolicyEngine and NBER sign memorandum of understanding for TAXSIM emulator development",
    "description": "Partnership ensures continuity of tax microsimulation capabilities for the research community through open-source development.",
    "date": "2025-09-05",
    "tags": ["us", "org", "featured"],
    "filename": "policyengine-nber-mou-taxsim.md",
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    "authors": ["max-ghenis", "pavel-makarchuk"]
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  {
    "title": "National Science Foundation awards PolicyEngine $300,000 grant",
    "description": "NSF's Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems program will support PolicyEngine's work to expand access to policy analysis tools.",
    "date": "2025-08-18",
    "tags": ["us", "uk", "org", "featured"],
    "filename": "nsf-pose-phase-1-grant.md",
    "image": "nsf-official-logo.png",
    "authors": ["max-ghenis"]
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  {
    "title": "Analysis of the American Worker Rebate Act of 2025",
    "description": "The bill would cost $141 billion and benefit 80% of American residents.",
    "date": "2025-08-13",
    "tags": ["us", "tariffs", "featured"],
    "filename": "american-worker-rebate-act.md",
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    "authors": ["david-trimmer"]
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  {
    "title": "Enhanced CPS full launch: Comprehensive microdata for policy analysis",
    "description": "The Enhanced Current Population Survey now includes tip, overtime, and auto loan interest imputations, plus upcoming state and congressional district calibration.",
    "date": "2025-08-11",
    "tags": ["us", "data", "featured"],
    "filename": "enhanced-cps-launch.md",
    "image": "enhanced-cps-launch.png",
    "authors": ["max-ghenis", "nikhil-woodruff", "ben-ogorek", "maria-juaristi"]
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    "_comment": "This post uses external_url to link to an interactive app instead of a markdown article. The filename is 'dummy' because no markdown file exists - it redirects directly to the app.",
    "title": "The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, household by household",
    "description": "Our latest interactive shows how the reconciliation bill affects each of 20,000 representative households across income levels, states, and provisions.",
    "date": "2025-08-11",
    "tags": ["us", "policy", "featured", "reconciliation", "interactives"],
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      "ben-ogorek",
      "nikhil-woodruff"
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  {
    "title": "Analysis of individual income tax provisions in the final reconciliation bill",
    "description": "Our simulation projects a reduction in federal revenues of $3.8 trillion from 2026 to 2035 compared to current law.",
    "date": "2025-07-04",
    "tags": ["us", "policy", "featured", "reconciliation"],
    "filename": "final-2025-reconciliation-tax.md",
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    "authors": ["david-trimmer", "pavel-makarchuk"]
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  {
    "title": "Introducing the OBBBA Household Explorer",
    "description": "New interactive tool reveals household-level impacts of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.",
    "date": "2025-07-03",
    "tags": ["us", "policy", "featured", "reconciliation"],
    "filename": "introducing-obbba-household-explorer.md",
    "image": "introducing-obbba-household-explorer.png",
    "authors": ["max-ghenis", "pavel-makarchuk", "elena-cura"]
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  {
    "title": "The 2025 American Family Act",
    "description": "The Child Tax Credit expansion would cost the federal government $2.5 trillion over ten years and lower child poverty by 25%.",
    "date": "2025-06-16",
    "tags": ["us", "policy", "featured", "child-tax-credit"],
    "filename": "american-family-act-2025.md",
    "image": "american-family-act-2025.webp",
    "authors": ["david-trimmer"]
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  {
    "title": "Childcare programmes in PolicyEngine UK",
    "description": "This report explains how PolicyEngine models childcare programmes in the UK.",
    "date": "2025-06-06",
    "tags": ["uk", "benefit", "featured"],
    "filename": "uk-childcare-report.md",
    "image": "uk_childcare_report.jpg",
    "authors": ["vahid-ahmadi"]
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  {
    "title": "Manager's Amendment to H.R.1 - The One Big Beautiful Bill Act",
    "date": "2025-05-24",
    "authors": ["pavel-makarchuk", "david-trimmer", "max-ghenis"],
    "tags": ["us", "policy", "featured", "reconciliation"],
    "description": "We project that individual provisions in the manager's amendment will cost $22 billion over the budget window.",
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  {
    "title": "Montana Reduces Top Income Tax Rate and Expands EITC",
    "description": "Montana's latest individual income tax changes will lower state revenues by $245 million and raise net income for an estimated 77% of residents in 2027.",
    "date": "2025-05-22",
    "tags": ["us", "featured", "us-mt"],
    "filename": "montana-tax-cuts-2026.md",
    "image": "montana-tax-cuts-2026.jpg",
    "authors": ["david-trimmer"]
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  {
    "title": "The SALT Caucus's Proposed Cap",
    "description": "We project that replacing the SALT cap approved by the Ways and Means Committee with the SALT Caucus proposal would cost $497 billion over the budget window.",
    "date": "2025-05-15",
    "tags": ["us", "featured", "reconciliation"],
    "filename": "salt-caucus-62k-cap.md",
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    "authors": ["david-trimmer"]
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  {
    "title": "Ways and Means Committee's SALT Cap",
    "description": "We project that limiting state and local tax deductions to $30,000, phasing down to $10,000 at high incomes, would raise $937 billion over the budget window.",
    "date": "2025-05-14",
    "tags": ["us", "featured", "reconciliation"],
    "filename": "ways-and-means-salt-cap.md",
    "image": "ways-and-means-salt-cap.webp",
    "authors": ["pavel-makarchuk", "david-trimmer", "max-ghenis"]
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  {
    "title": "Tax changes in effect in April 2025",
    "description": "Using PolicyEngine UK, we analyse four tax changes taking effect in April 2025 that will increase taxes by an average of £1,133 per household.",
    "date": "2025-04-25",
    "tags": ["uk", "tax", "policy", "featured"],
    "filename": "impact-of-tax-changes-2025-2026.md",
    "image": "uk_budget_box_hunt.jpg",
    "authors": ["nikhil-woodruff"]
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  {
    "title": "Analyzing Energy Policy with PolicyEngine",
    "description": "We provide an Earth Day recap of our capabilities in the US and UK.",
    "date": "2025-04-22",
    "tags": ["us", "uk", "featured"],
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    "image": "earth-day-2025.png",
    "authors": ["max-ghenis"]
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  {
    "title": "What's the SALTernative?",
    "description": "Introducing PolicyEngine’s free SALT‑AMT calculator — an open‑source web app to model next year’s SALT‑cap sunset, tweak AMT parameters, and see the budget, distributional, and household impacts in seconds.",
    "date": "2025-04-21",
    "tags": ["us", "featured", "reconciliation"],
    "filename": "introducing-salternative.md",
    "image": "introducing-salternative.png",
    "authors": ["pavel-makarchuk", "max-ghenis"]
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  {
    "title": "MyFriendBen Launches in North Carolina, Using PolicyEngine API",
    "description": "Our rules engine powers the open-source multi-benefit screener and its expansion beyond Colorado.",
    "date": "2025-04-05",
    "tags": ["us", "us-nc", "featured", "api", "benefit-access"],
    "filename": "myfriendben-nc.md",
    "image": "myfriendben-nc.png",
    "authors": ["max-ghenis"]
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  {
    "title": "New Ways to Give to PolicyEngine",
    "description": "Exploring state tax credits for charitable giving.",
    "date": "2025-04-01",
    "tags": ["us", "april-fools", "featured"],
    "filename": "april-1st-2025.md",
    "image": "april-1st-2025.png",
    "authors": ["daphne-hansell"]
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  {
    "title": "Analysis of the Spring 2025 OBR forecast",
    "description": "PolicyEngine integrates the new OBR forecasts to provide updated predictions on household income, poverty, and inequality.",
    "date": "2025-03-26",
    "tags": ["uk", "impact", "featured"],
    "filename": "obr-forecast-2025.ipynb",
    "image": "obr-forecast-2025.jpg",
    "authors": ["nikhil-woodruff"]
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  {
    "title": "HM Treasury pilots PolicyEngine UK for tax-benefit microsimulation",
    "description": "The UK government's finance ministry explores PolicyEngine as a potential supplement to existing models.",
    "date": "2025-03-24",
    "tags": ["uk", "impact", "featured"],
    "filename": "hmt-policyengine-pilot.md",
    "image": "analysis-of-the-spring-budget-2023.jpeg",
    "authors": ["nikhil-woodruff"]
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  {
    "title": "Extending the Income Tax threshold freeze to 2030",
    "description": "PolicyEngine estimates extending the personal allowance and higher rate threshold freeze would raise £12.2 billion over two years.",
    "date": "2025-03-25",
    "tags": ["uk", "policy", "featured"],
    "filename": "income-tax-freeze.md",
    "image": "uk_budget_box_hunt.jpg",
    "authors": ["nikhil-woodruff"]
  },
  {
    "title": "PolicyEngine's 2022 year in review",
    "description": "A year of launches, analysis, and building for the future.",
    "date": "2022-12-30",
    "tags": ["global", "impact"],
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    "authors": ["max-ghenis"]
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  {
    "title": "How machine learning tools make PolicyEngine more accurate",
    "description": "Today, we're launching new survey weights that cut deviations from administrative statistics by 97%.",
    "date": "2022-03-07",
    "tags": ["uk", "technical"],
    "filename": "how-machine-learning-tools-make-policyengine-more-accurate.md",
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  {
    "title": "Enhancing the Current Population Survey for policy analysis",
    "description": "We've used modern data science techniques to make PolicyEngine the UK's most accurate microsimulation model. In 2023, we'll do the same in the US.",
    "date": "2022-12-28",
    "tags": ["us", "technical"],
    "filename": "enhancing-the-current-population-survey-for-policy-analysis.md",
    "image": "enhancing-the-current-population-survey-for-policy-analysis.png",
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  {
    "title": "How charitable contributions affect Americans' taxes",
    "description": "PolicyEngine estimates the tax impact of your donations for free.",
    "date": "2022-11-29",
    "tags": ["us", "policy"],
    "filename": "charitable-contributions.md",
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    "authors": ["max-ghenis"]
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  {
    "title": "Maryland's standard deduction",
    "description": "PolicyEngine computes the program's impact on Maryland and individual households.",
    "date": "2022-11-22",
    "tags": ["us", "policy"],
    "filename": "maryland-standard-deduction.md",
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    "authors": ["kevin-foster"]
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  {
    "title": "From OpenFisca to PolicyEngine",
    "description": "OpenFisca has catapulted our progress, and now we've forked it into our own microsimulation framework.",
    "date": "2022-11-10",
    "tags": ["global", "technical"],
    "filename": "from-openfisca-to-policyengine.md",
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    "authors": ["nikhil-woodruff"]
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  {
    "title": "Oregon's Nonrefundable Exemption Credit",
    "description": "PolicyEngine computes the program's impact on Oregon and individual households.",
    "date": "2022-11-04",
    "tags": ["us", "policy"],
    "filename": "oregons-nonrefundable-exemption-credit.md",
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    "authors": ["kevin-foster"]
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  {
    "title": "Stamp duties in PolicyEngine UK",
    "date": "2022-09-22",
    "authors": ["nikhil-woodruff"],
    "tags": ["uk", "technical"],
    "description": "The Times reported yesterday that Prime Minister Liz Truss will announce plans to cut Stamp Duty this week. PolicyEngine now supports\u2026",
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  {
    "title": "Prime Minister Liz Truss\u2019s energy bill price cap",
    "date": "2022-09-16",
    "authors": ["max-ghenis"],
    "tags": ["uk", "policy"],
    "description": "See the impact in PolicyEngine.",
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  {
    "title": "Raising the marriage allowance from 10% to 100%",
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    "description": "See the reform in PolicyEngine.",
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  {
    "title": "PolicyEngine launches in Washington state",
    "date": "2022-08-10",
    "authors": ["max-ghenis"],
    "tags": ["us", "technical", "us-wa"],
    "description": "Washingtonians can now compute the impacts of the Working Families Tax Credit and federal reforms.",
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  {
    "title": "Electric vehicle tax credits under current law and the Inflation Reduction Act",
    "date": "2022-08-05",
    "authors": ["max-ghenis"],
    "tags": ["us", "policy"],
    "description": "Use PolicyEngine US to analyze provisions of the potential reconciliation bill.",
    "filename": "electric-vehicle-tax-credits-under-current-law-and-the-inflation-reduction-act.md",
    "image": "electric-vehicle-tax-credits-under-current-law-and-the-inflation-reduction-act.jpg"
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  {
    "title": "Rishi Sunak\u2019s proposal to cut the basic rate to 16 percent",
    "date": "2022-08-01",
    "authors": ["max-ghenis"],
    "tags": ["uk", "policy"],
    "description": "See the interactive simulation on PolicyEngine",
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    "image": "rishi-sunaks-proposal-to-cut-the-basic-rate-to-16-percent.jpg"
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  {
    "title": "The new PolicyEngine US Population Impact page",
    "date": "2022-07-01",
    "authors": ["max-ghenis"],
    "tags": ["us", "technical"],
    "description": "You design the policy. We compute the poverty, inequality, and budgetary impacts.",
    "filename": "the-new-policyengine-us-population-impact-page.md",
    "image": "the-new-policyengine-us-population-impact-page.jpg"
  },
  {
    "title": "PolicyEngine at the BIG Conference and the Beeck Center\u2019s Rules as Code Demo Day",
    "date": "2022-06-09",
    "authors": ["max-ghenis"],
    "tags": ["us", "impact"],
    "description": "Register for the BIG Conference June 23\u201325 and the Rules as Code Demo Day June 28",
    "filename": "policyengine-at-the-basic-income-guarantee-conference-and-the-beeck-centers-rules-as-code-demo-day.md",
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  {
    "title": "Impact of the Chancellor\u2019s Cost of Living Support package",
    "date": "2022-05-26",
    "authors": ["max-ghenis"],
    "tags": ["uk", "policy"],
    "description": "See the analysis in PolicyEngine UK",
    "filename": "impact-of-the-chancellors-cost-of-living-support-package.md",
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  },
  {
    "title": "How developers can explore the PolicyEngine API",
    "date": "2022-04-29",
    "authors": ["nikhil-woodruff"],
    "tags": ["global", "technical"],
    "description": "The UK API explorer and US API explorer describe variables and policy parameters in our models.",
    "filename": "how-developers-can-explore-the-policyengine-api.md",
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  {
    "title": "Make Everyone a Policymaker",
    "date": "2021-10-15",
    "authors": ["nikhil-woodruff"],
    "tags": ["global", "impact"],
    "description": "Today we're (re)launching PolicyEngine to give the public unprecedented insight into the tax and benefit system.",
    "filename": "make-everyone-a-policymaker.md",
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  {
    "title": "Analysing Autumn Budget Universal Credit reforms with PolicyEngine",
    "date": "2021-10-30",
    "authors": ["nikhil-woodruff"],
    "tags": ["uk", "policy"],
    "description": "See how the reform affects the UK population or your household.",
    "filename": "analysing-autumn-budget-universal-credit-reforms-with-policyengine.md",
    "image": "analysing-autumn-budget-universal-credit-reforms-with-policyengine.webp"
  },
  {
    "title": "Income Tax cuts Rishi Sunak is reportedly considering",
    "date": "2021-12-04",
    "authors": ["max-ghenis"],
    "tags": ["uk", "policy"],
    "description": "Explore the basic rate and additional rate cuts in PolicyEngine.",
    "filename": "income-tax-cuts-rishi-sunak-is-reportedly-considering.md",
    "image": "income-tax-cuts-rishi-sunak-is-reportedly-considering.webp"
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  {
    "title": "PolicyEngine's 2021 year in review",
    "date": "2021-12-29",
    "authors": ["max-ghenis"],
    "tags": ["global", "impact"],
    "description": "PolicyEngine's inaugural year was a substantial one for public policy.",
    "filename": "policyengines-2021-year-in-review.md",
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  {
    "title": "The Green Party Manifesto at PolicyFest",
    "date": "2022-01-26",
    "authors": ["nikhil-woodruff"],
    "tags": ["uk", "policy"],
    "description": "Explore the Green Party Manifesto on PolicyEngine.",
    "filename": "the-green-party-manifesto-at-policyfest.md",
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  {
    "title": "PolicyEngine arrives stateside",
    "date": "2022-03-31",
    "authors": ["max-ghenis"],
    "tags": ["us", "impact"],
    "description": "Today, we're beta-launching PolicyEngine US and several other new features.",
    "filename": "policyengine-comes-stateside.md",
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  {
    "title": "How PolicyEngine estimates the effects of UK carbon taxes",
    "date": "2022-04-23",
    "authors": ["nikhil-woodruff"],
    "tags": ["uk", "technical"],
    "description": "By fusing datasets with machine learning, we empower anyone to integrate custom carbon taxes with other tax and benefit reforms.",
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  {
    "title": "Tax cuts in Prime Minister Truss's Growth Plan 2022",
    "date": "2022-09-23",
    "authors": ["max-ghenis"],
    "tags": ["uk", "policy"],
    "description": "See the impact on the population and on your household in PolicyEngine UK.",
    "filename": "tax-cuts-in-prime-minister-trusss-growth-plan.md",
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  {
    "title": "How to simulate basic and guaranteed income policies in PolicyEngine US",
    "date": "2022-09-27",
    "authors": ["max-ghenis"],
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    "description": "From universal basic income to age-dependent means-tested payments, we've got you covered.",
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    "date": "2024-07-12 09:00:00",
    "tags": ["us", "policy", "featured"],
    "authors": ["max-ghenis", "ben-gross"],
    "filename": "niskanen-center-analysis.md",
    "image": "niskanen-center-analysis.jpg"
  },
  {
    "title": "Kamala Harris's LIFT Act Middle Class Tax Credit",
    "description": "A comprehensive analysis of the Vice President's 2018 proposal.",
    "date": "2024-07-22 01:00:00",
    "tags": ["us", "policy", "featured", "2024-election"],
    "authors": ["max-ghenis", "pavel-makarchuk"],
    "filename": "lift-act.md",
    "image": "lift-act.jpg"
  },
  {
    "title": "Analysis of JD Vance’s Suggested $5,000 Child Tax Credit Expansion",
    "description": "Impacts of the vice presidential nominee’s reform depend largely on its uncertain refundability.",
    "date": "2024-08-11 01:00:00",
    "tags": ["us", "policy", "featured", "2024-election"],
    "authors": ["max-ghenis", "pavel-makarchuk"],
    "filename": "vance-ctc.md",
    "image": "vance-ctc.jpg"
  },
  {
    "title": "PolicyEngine at the 117th Annual Conference on Taxation",
    "description": "Exploring AI applications and enhanced data for tax policy analysis.",
    "date": "2024-08-13 01:00:00",
    "tags": ["us", "policy", "conferences"],
    "authors": ["max-ghenis", "nikhil-woodruff"],
    "filename": "nta-2024.md",
    "image": "nta-2024.png"
  },
  {
    "title": "Validation against the Survey of Personal Incomes",
    "description": "Evaluating PolicyEngine's model performance against the UK SPI.",
    "date": "2024-08-14 01:00:00",
    "tags": ["uk", "technical"],
    "authors": ["anthony-volk"],
    "filename": "uk-spi-validation.ipynb",
    "image": "uk-spi-validation.png"
  },
  {
    "title": "Kamala Harris’s Child Tax Credit Proposal",
    "description": "We analyze the Democratic nominee’s proposal to expand the 2021 expansion, giving $6,000 to parents of newborns.",
    "date": "2024-08-17 01:00:00",
    "tags": ["us", "2024-election", "policy", "featured"],
    "authors": ["max-ghenis", "pavel-makarchuk"],
    "filename": "harris-ctc.md",
    "image": "harris-ctc.webp"
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  {
    "title": "Individual Income Tax Provisions in Minnesota Bill HF1938 (2023)",
    "description": "The reform signed by Governor Tim Walz expanded credits for low-income families, reduced taxes for middle-income retirees, and raised taxes for high-income filers.",
    "date": "2024-08-21 01:00:00",
    "tags": ["us", "2024-election", "policy", "featured", "minnesota"],
    "authors": ["pavel-makarchuk"],
    "filename": "mn-hf1938-walz.md",
    "image": "mn-hf1938-walz.webp"
  },
  {
    "title": "How the Rent Relief Act of 2019 Varies with Income and Location",
    "description": "We show the impact on different households of the tax credit bill introduced by then-Senator Kamala Harris.",
    "date": "2024-08-22 01:00:00",
    "tags": ["us", "2024-election", "policy", "featured"],
    "authors": ["max-ghenis"],
    "filename": "rent-relief-act.md",
    "image": "rent-relief-act.png"
  },
  {
    "title": "How the Oregon Rebate May Affect Poverty Rates",
    "description": "Our model finds the ballot measure could reduce poverty by between 22% and 35%, without macroeconomic effects.",
    "date": "2024-09-29 01:00:00",
    "tags": ["us", "2024-election", "policy", "us-or"],
    "authors": ["max-ghenis", "pavel-makarchuk"],
    "filename": "oregon-rebate.md",
    "image": "oregon-rebate.png"
  },
  {
    "title": "Exempting Social Security Benefits from Income Taxation",
    "description": "PolicyEngine projects that former President Donald Trump’s proposal would cost $1.4 trillion over the budget window.",
    "date": "2024-10-07 01:00:00",
    "tags": ["us", "2024-election", "policy", "featured"],
    "authors": ["david-trimmer"],
    "filename": "social-security-tax-exemption.md",
    "image": "social-security-tax-exemption.webp"
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  {
    "title": "Labour's reforms to VAT tax on private schools",
    "description": "PolicyEngine projects Labour's private school tax plan would raise £7.7 billion over five years, mainly affecting wealthier households.",
    "date": "2024-10-17 01:00:00",
    "tags": ["uk", "tax", "policy", "vat"],
    "authors": ["vahid-ahmadi"],
    "filename": "school-vat.md",
    "image": "classroom-2093744.jpg"
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  {
    "title": "Levying VAT on private school fees in the Autumn Budget",
    "description": "PolicyEngine projects the reforms to private school VAT would raise £1.5 billion in 2025.",
    "date": "2024-10-31 15:00:00",
    "tags": ["uk", "tax", "policy", "vat", "featured"],
    "authors": ["vahid-ahmadi"],
    "filename": "vat-school-comparison.md",
    "image": "vat-school-comparison-post.jpg"
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  {
    "title": "How PolicyEngine UK models behavioural responses",
    "description": "PolicyEngine has enhanced its modelling with behavioural responses, including income, substitution and capital gains elasticities.",
    "date": "2024-11-12 15:00:00",
    "tags": ["uk", "policy", "behavioural-responses", "featured"],
    "authors": ["vahid-ahmadi"],
    "filename": "behavioural-responses.md",
    "image": "behavioural-responses.jpg"
  },
  {
    "title": "Benefits uprating 2025/26",
    "description": "PolicyEngine projects Labour's 1.7% benefits uprating would cost £2.5 billion, mainly benefiting lower-income households.",
    "date": "2024-10-31 15:00:00",
    "tags": ["uk", "benefit", "inflation"],
    "authors": ["vahid-ahmadi"],
    "filename": "Benefit-uprating-25.md",
    "image": "benefit-uprating-post-pic.jpg"
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  {
    "title": "Capital Gains Tax reforms in the Autumn Budget 2024",
    "description": "PolicyEngine estimates that the UK's 2024 Capital Gains Tax reforms will raise £6.4 billion between 2025-2029.",
    "date": "2024-11-06 15:00:00",
    "tags": ["uk", "tax", "featured"],
    "authors": ["vahid-ahmadi"],
    "filename": "cgt-autumn-budget.md",
    "image": "cgt-autumn-budget.jpg"
  },
  {
    "title": "Kamala Harris’s Earned Income Tax Credit Expansion Proposal",
    "description": "PolicyEngine projects that restoring the American Rescue Plan policy would cost $144 billion (static) or $201 billion (dynamic) over a decade, while lowering poverty by 1.6% in 2025.",
    "date": "2024-10-24 01:00:00",
    "tags": ["us", "2024-election", "policy", "featured"],
    "authors": ["nikhil-woodruff"],
    "filename": "harris-eitc.md",
    "image": "harris-eitc.webp"
  },
  {
    "title": "Autumn Budget policy choices",
    "description": "PolicyEngine estimates that four reported tax reforms would raise £23 billion per year",
    "date": "2024-10-24 16:30:00",
    "tags": ["uk", "autumn-budget", "featured", "policy"],
    "authors": ["nikhil-woodruff"],
    "filename": "autumn-budget-2024-policy-choices.ipynb",
    "image": "autumn-budget-policy-choices.png"
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  {
    "title": "Levying employer National Insurance on pension contributions",
    "description": "PolicyEngine estimates the now-scrapped Autumn Budget reform would have raised between £10 and £18 billion per year, depending on how employers pass it on to wages.",
    "date": "2024-10-26 09:00:00",
    "tags": ["uk", "autumn-budget", "policy"],
    "authors": ["nikhil-woodruff"],
    "filename": "autumn-budget-2024-employer-nic-pension-contributions.md",
    "image": "autumn-budget-2024-employer-nic-pension-contributions.png"
  },
  {
    "title": "Extending the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act",
    "date": "2024-10-28 00:00:01",
    "authors": ["david-trimmer"],
    "tags": ["us", "2024-election", "featured"],
    "description": "PolicyEngine projects extending the TCJA individual tax provisions would cost $3.9 trillion over a ten-year budget window.",
    "filename": "tcja-extension.md",
    "image": "tcja-extension.jpg"
  },
  {
    "title": "Employer National Insurance reforms in the Autumn Budget 2024",
    "description": "PolicyEngine projects the reforms to employer NI would raise £23 billion in 2025 and affect two thirds of people.",
    "date": "2024-10-30 16:30:00",
    "tags": ["uk", "autumn-budget", "policy", "featured"],
    "authors": ["nikhil-woodruff"],
    "filename": "autumn-budget-24-employer-ni.md",
    "image": "autumn-budget-24-employer-ni.png"
  },
  {
    "title": "Fuel duty reforms in the Autumn Budget 2024",
    "description": "PolicyEngine projects the reforms to fuel duty will cost £2.4 billion in 2025.",
    "date": "2024-10-30 17:30:00",
    "tags": ["uk", "autumn-budget", "policy", "featured"],
    "authors": ["nikhil-woodruff"],
    "filename": "autumn-budget-24-fuel-duty.md",
    "image": "autumn-budget-24-fuel-duty.png"
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  {
    "title": "Donald Trump's Economic Agenda",
    "description": "PolicyEngine projects three provisions of Donald Trump’s tax plan would cost $5.4 trillion over the next ten years.",
    "date": "2024-10-31 17:30:00",
    "tags": ["us", "election", "donald-trump", "featured"],
    "authors": ["david-trimmer"],
    "filename": "trump-2024.md",
    "image": "trump-2024.webp"
  },
  {
    "title": "How Would Each Presidential Candidate’s Economic Plans Affect Your Household?",
    "description": "PolicyEngine has created a personalized calculator for the 2024 presidential election’s tax proposals.",
    "date": "2024-11-03 17:30:00",
    "tags": [
      "us",
      "election",
      "donald-trump",
      "kamala-harris",
      "featured",
      "interactives"
    ],
    "authors": ["max-ghenis", "pavel-makarchuk"],
    "filename": "introducing-2024-election-calculator.md",
    "image": "introducing-2024-election-calculator.png"
  },
  {
    "title": "Federal Tax Inflation Adjustments for Tax Year 2025",
    "description": "PolicyEngine has updated all relevant federal tax parameters based on the latest IRS announcements.",
    "date": "2024-11-19 09:30:00",
    "tags": ["us", "featured"],
    "authors": ["david-trimmer"],
    "filename": "federal-tax-inflation-adjustments-2025.md",
    "image": "fed_tax_inflation_adjustments.webp"
  },
  {
    "title": "Introducing GiveCalc",
    "description": "Calculate the true cost of charitable giving.",
    "date": "2024-12-03 09:30:00",
    "tags": ["us", "featured", "giving"],
    "authors": ["max-ghenis", "pavel-makarchuk"],
    "filename": "givecalc.md",
    "image": "givecalc.png"
  },
  {
    "title": "Louisiana Transitions to a Flat Tax",
    "description": "Analysis of the individual tax changes signed into law by Governor Jeff Landry.",
    "date": "2024-12-10 09:30:00",
    "tags": ["us", "featured", "louisiana"],
    "authors": ["david-trimmer"],
    "filename": "louisiana-flat-tax.md",
    "image": "louisiana-flat-tax.webp"
  },
  {
    "title": "NEO Philanthropy Awards $200,000 Grant to PolicyEngine",
    "description": "Economic Mobility & Opportunity Fund supports expanding access to policy analysis tools.",
    "date": "2024-12-18 09:30:00",
    "tags": ["us", "featured"],
    "authors": ["max-ghenis"],
    "filename": "neo-philanthropy.md",
    "image": "neo-philanthropy.png"
  },
  {
    "title": "Nuffield Foundation awards £250k to enhance PolicyEngine UK",
    "description": "Grant will support expanding and localising tax-benefit microsimulation capabilities.",
    "date": "2024-12-19 14:00:00",
    "tags": ["uk", "featured"],
    "authors": ["max-ghenis"],
    "filename": "uk-nuffield-grant.md",
    "image": "uk-nuffield-grant.png"
  },
  {
    "title": "New AI Feature Helps People Understand Their Taxes and Benefits",
    "description": "We’re applying large language models to clarify complex policy rules.",
    "date": "2024-12-26 09:00:00",
    "tags": ["us", "featured", "ai"],
    "authors": ["anthony-volk"],
    "filename": "us-household-ai.md",
    "image": "us-household-ai.png"
  },
  {
    "title": "New AI feature helps people understand their taxes and benefits",
    "description": "We’re applying large language models to clarify complex policy rules.",
    "date": "2024-12-26 09:00:00",
    "tags": ["uk", "featured", "ai"],
    "authors": ["anthony-volk"],
    "filename": "uk-household-ai.md",
    "image": "uk-household-ai.png"
  },
  {
    "title": "PolicyEngine US Launches Behavioral Responses",
    "description": "We've expanded our modeling framework to capture how policy changes affect labor supply.",
    "date": "2024-12-27 09:00:00",
    "tags": ["us", "policy", "behavioral-responses", "featured"],
    "authors": [
      "max-ghenis",
      "nikhil-woodruff",
      "jason-debacker",
      "vahid-ahmadi"
    ],
    "filename": "us-behavioral-responses.md",
    "image": "behavioural-responses.jpg"
  },
  {
    "title": "PolicyEngine UK in 2024: A year in review",
    "description": "From AI-powered analysis to election impact, we transformed policy research through technology.",
    "date": "2024-12-28 09:00:00",
    "tags": ["uk", "year-in-review", "featured"],
    "authors": ["max-ghenis", "nikhil-woodruff"],
    "filename": "uk-year-in-review-2024.md",
    "image": "year-in-review-2024.png"
  },
  {
    "title": "PolicyEngine US in 2024: A year in review",
    "description": "From state-level modeling to AI-powered analysis, we expanded the frontier of policy research through technology.",
    "date": "2024-12-29 09:00:00",
    "tags": ["us", "year-in-review", "featured"],
    "authors": ["max-ghenis", "nikhil-woodruff"],
    "filename": "us-year-in-review-2024.md",
    "image": "year-in-review-2024.png"
  },
  {
    "title": "Analysis of the Family First Act",
    "description": "We project that Representative Blake Moore's Child Tax Credit bill would raise revenue and reduce poverty.",
    "date": "2025-01-17 09:00:00",
    "tags": ["us", "policy", "featured"],
    "authors": ["pavel-makarchuk"],
    "filename": "family-first-act.md",
    "image": "family-first-act.jpg"
  },
  {
    "title": "The New York Working Families Tax Credit",
    "description": "A comprehensive analysis of the proposal from New York State Senator Andrew Gounardes.",
    "date": "2025-01-21 09:00:00",
    "tags": ["us", "policy", "featured", "us-ny"],
    "authors": ["david-trimmer"],
    "filename": "ny-wftc.md",
    "image": "ny-wftc.webp"
  },
  {
    "title": "How We're Improving our API in 2025",
    "description": "PolicyEngine's API target architecture for 2025.",
    "date": "2025-02-05",
    "tags": ["technical", "global"],
    "authors": ["michael-smit"],
    "filename": "api-v2.md",
    "image": "api-v2.webp"
  },
  {
    "title": "The Proposed New York City Child Tax Credit",
    "date": "2025-02-18 00:00:01",
    "authors": ["david-trimmer"],
    "tags": ["us", "us-ny-nyc", "featured", "child tax credit", "policy"],
    "description": "Analysis of Senate Bill S2238, introduced by Senator Andrew Gounardes.",
    "filename": "nyc-ctc-s2238.md",
    "image": "nyc-ctc-s2238.webp"
  },
  {
    "title": "Kentucky Cuts Income Tax Rate",
    "description": "Analysis of lowering Kentucky's 4% income tax rate to 3.5%.",
    "date": "2025-02-26",
    "tags": ["us", "us-ky", "policy", "featured"],
    "filename": "kentucky-cuts-income-tax-rate.md",
    "image": "kentucky-cuts-income-tax-rate.webp",
    "authors": ["david-trimmer"]
  },
  {
    "title": "The Family Income Supplemental Credit (FISC) Act",
    "description": "Representative Jared Golden’s Child Tax Credit reform would cost $193 billion in 2026 while reducing poverty and inequality.",
    "date": "2025-03-05",
    "tags": ["us", "policy", "featured"],
    "filename": "fisc-act.md",
    "image": "jared-golden.jpeg",
    "authors": ["pavel-makarchuk"]
  },
  {
    "title": "Exempting young children from the two-child limit",
    "description": "Analysis of the potential impact of limiting the two-child limit to families with children under 5 years old.",
    "date": "2025-03-06 00:00:00",
    "tags": ["uk", "policy", "featured"],
    "authors": ["vahid-ahmadi", "pavel-makarchuk"],
    "filename": "young-child-exemption-two-child-limit.md",
    "image": "young-child-exemption-two-child-limit.jpg"
  },
  {
    "title": "New York Governor Hochul's Tax Proposals",
    "date": "2025-03-07",
    "authors": ["david-trimmer"],
    "tags": ["us", "us-ny", "featured", "policy"],
    "description": "PolicyEngine analyzed several individual income tax policies included in Governor Kathy Hochul's FY2026 budget.",
    "filename": "ny-hochul-budget.md",
    "image": "ny-hochul-budget.jpg"
  },
  {
    "title": "The impact of Personal Independence Payment, and freezing its level in 2025",
    "date": "2025-03-11",
    "authors": ["nikhil-woodruff"],
    "tags": ["uk", "policy", "featured"],
    "description": "How the disability benefit, and one reform the government is reportedly considering, affect the UK household sector.",
    "filename": "pip-and-freeze.md",
    "image": "pip_and_freeze.jpg"
  },
  {
    "title": "Analysis of Michigan HB 4170",
    "date": "2025-03-26",
    "authors": ["pavel-makarchuk"],
    "tags": ["us", "policy", "featured"],
    "description": "We project the bill, which would reduce Michigan’s tax rate from 4.25% to 4.05%, would cost $644 million in 2025.",
    "filename": "michigan-bill-hb4170.ipynb",
    "image": "michigan-bill-hb4170.jpg"
  },
  {
    "title": "Restricting eligibility for the Personal Independence Payment Daily Living part",
    "date": "2025-03-18",
    "authors": ["nikhil-woodruff", "max-ghenis"],
    "tags": ["uk", "policy", "featured"],
    "description": "We simulate potential realisations of the Government's new £5 billion reform.",
    "filename": "uk-pip-reforms.md",
    "image": "uk-pip-reforms.jpg"
  },
  {
    "title": "The Tax Cuts for Workers Act",
    "date": "2025-06-16",
    "authors": ["pavel-makarchuk", "max-ghenis"],
    "tags": ["us", "policy", "featured"],
    "description": "We simulate the new bill to restore the American Rescue Plan Act’s Earned Income Tax Credit expansion.",
    "filename": "tax-cuts-for-workers-act.ipynb",
    "image": "tax-cuts-for-workers-act.png"
  },
  {
    "title": "Benefits in PolicyEngine",
    "date": "2025-05-28 00:00:00",
    "authors": ["vahid-ahmadi"],
    "tags": ["uk", "policy", "featured", "benefit"],
    "description": "PolicyEngine models different benefit components in the UK, including means-tested and non-means-tested benefits.",
    "filename": "uk-benefits-post.md",
    "image": "uk-benefit-post.png"
  },
  {
    "title": "Idaho’s New Individual Income Tax Changes",
    "date": "2025-04-01",
    "authors": ["david-trimmer"],
    "tags": ["us", "us-id", "featured", "policy"],
    "description": "The lower top marginal rate and larger grocery tax credit will cost the state $225 million in 2025.",
    "filename": "idaho-2025-tax-change.ipynb",
    "image": "idaho-2025-tax-change.jpg"
  },
  {
    "title": "Taxes in PolicyEngine",
    "description": "PolicyEngine models different tax components in the UK, including direct taxes, indirect taxes, and proposed taxes.",
    "date": "2025-04-08 00:00:00",
    "tags": ["uk", "policy", "featured", "tax"],
    "authors": ["vahid-ahmadi", "nikhil-woodruff"],
    "filename": "uk-taxes-post.md",
    "image": "uk-tax-post.jpg"
  },
  {
    "title": "Utah Cuts Income Tax Rate and Expands Credits",
    "date": "2025-05-01",
    "authors": ["david-trimmer"],
    "tags": ["us", "us-ut", "featured", "policy"],
    "description": "Utah’s latest individual income tax changes will lower state revenues by $96 million and raise net income for 62% of residents in 2025.",
    "filename": "utah-income-tax-changes.ipynb",
    "image": "utah-income-tax-changes.jpg"
  },
  {
    "title": "Reform UK's tax-benefit reform proposals",
    "description": "Nigel Farage has confirmed that Reform UK's manifesto will include four tax-benefit reforms that PolicyEngine estimates would cost £75 billion in 2025-26.",
    "date": "2025-05-27 19:00:00",
    "tags": ["uk", "policy", "featured"],
    "authors": ["nikhil-woodruff"],
    "filename": "farage-speech-may-2025.ipynb",
    "image": "farage-speech-may-2025.jpg"
  },
  {
    "title": "Extending the Winter Fuel Allowance",
    "description": "The government has reversed its Winter Fuel Allowance means testing, expanding eligibility to 9 million pensioners through a £35,000 income threshold.",
    "date": "2025-06-11 11:00:00",
    "tags": ["uk", "policy", "featured"],
    "authors": ["nikhil-woodruff"],
    "filename": "wfa-means-test.ipynb",
    "image": "wfa-repeal.jpeg"
  },
  {
    "title": "How changing the VAT threshold affects UK revenues",
    "description": "PolicyEngine's new firm microsimulation model estimates revenue and business impacts of VAT thresholds from £70,000 to £120,000.",
    "date": "2025-09-10 11:00:00",
    "tags": ["uk", "policy", "featured"],
    "authors": ["vahid-ahmadi"],
    "filename": "uk-vat-thresholds.md",
    "image": "uk-vat-reeves.jpg"
  },
  {
    "title": "Testing multi-agent AI workflows for policy research",
    "description": "A multi-agent Claude Code system fared better on distributional analysis than benefit interactions; insights inform our forthcoming plugin.",
    "date": "2025-10-28",
    "tags": ["uk", "us", "featured", "technology", "ai"],
    "authors": ["vahid-ahmadi"],
    "filename": "multi-agent-workflows-policy-research.md",
    "image": "multi-agent-workflows-policy-research.png"
  }
]