Jason DeBacker

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As I drafted [PR #11](https://github.com/PSLmodels/examples/pull/11) in the examples repo, it occurred to me that we might want to make a distinction between different types of "reform" files. For example, it...

Per discussions in the Tax-Calculator developer meeting, it was decided that JSON files of enacted law changes will remain in the Tax-Calculator repo and proposed (but not enacted) policies will...

[Here's](https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/corporate-tax-cuts-skew-to-shareholders-and-ceos-not-workers-as-administration) a survey of the empirical literature by the CBPP.

@TishaJhabak1014 This issue is still open. It will make a change that is backwards incompatible. I've created a new `v4_development` branch to merge the changes related to this issue into...

Some more info on this: * Romney's office writeup on the FSA [here](https://www.romney.senate.gov/sites/default/files/2021-02/family%20security%20act_one%20pager.pdf) * EITC trapezoids under the FSA: * Compare to EITC trapezoids in 2017:

@hdoupe I'm trying to think about how to implement this without breaking backwards compatibility of the EITC parameters. Do you have thoughts on whether it's possible add a dimension to...

The challenges of data privacy seem hard to overcome with outputs from tests being printed to the `pytest` log files on Travis. What is the reason behind testing with the...

Per [IRS instructions](https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040gi.pdf), those filling married joint returns can claim an extra standard deduction for an age/blind spouse and those filing married single returns can if some other conditions are...

@JackLandry These are great questions. The error is you are receiving is because `ACTC_rt_bonus_under6family` is a rate and is bounded by 0 and 1. If I change 420 to 1,...

@MattHJensen @Peter-Metz I'm happy to add some inline comments to document this, but I don't know why there tolerances vary for certain variables in certain years. Do you?