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policyengine research tools model api python about donate menu research tools policyengine app cliffwatch coverage compass givecalc marriage calculator qbi deduction calculator spm threshold calculator tanf calculator model rules coverage parameters variables data pipeline calibration validation behavioral responses api python about team supporters citations events donate free open source tax and benefit analysis model policy reforms across all 50 states compute enter policyengine trusted by researchers governments and benefit platforms expert policy analysis view all research oct 12 2026 policyengine s microsimulation package published in the journal of open source software the peer reviewed paper describing policyengine the open source python package for uk and us tax benefit microsimulation that powers policyengine is now published in joss read more sep 29 2026 our 2025 poverty prediction graded policyengine registered a 2025 spm poverty prediction before the census release up 0 2 points overall up 0 9 for children down 0 5 for people 65 and over census reported 0 1 0 1 and 0 2 the grade and where the misses came from the model grew social security pensions and self employment income per person at national rates rerunning it with rates closer to the survey s removes most of the senior miss and about a third of the child miss read more sep 18 2026 2025 supplemental poverty measure what census reported and what threshold growth did to it census reported 13 1 percent spm poverty in 2025 up 0 1 point from 2024 we show the rate by age housing tenure and state and find it would have fallen 0 7 points if thresholds rose with inflation read sep 17 2026 futa taxable wage base dashboard estimates the federal revenue from raising the futa taxable wage base from 7 000 unchanged since 1983 to 43 000 in 2026 roughly the median annual wage and indexing it to inflation 317 billion over ten years with year by year results validation against irs collections and a downloadable csv using policyengine microsimulation open sep 15 2026 child poverty impact dashboard estimate how federal and state tax and benefit reforms child tax credits eitcs child allowances dependent exemptions and snap would affect child poverty household incomes and state budgets in all 50 states and dc using policyengine microsimulation open featured research 2026 state legislative tracker track federal and state tax and benefit bills with policyengine s estimates of each scored bill s budget poverty and household impacts explore the one big beautiful bill act household by household explore how the one big beautiful bill act obbba changes resources for each modeled us household in 2026 and which provisions drive the change explore tools policyengine app build a tax or benefit reform and see its budgetary and distributional impacts open cliffwatch see how benefits refundable tax credits taxes and net income change for us households as earnings rise open coverage compass model how life events moving income changes pregnancy affect a household s healthcare coverage and out of pocket costs across medicaid chip and the aca marketplace open givecalc calculate the tax benefits of charitable giving open marriage calculator see how marriage affects taxes benefits and net income for us households across all states open qbi deduction calculator calculate the qualified business income deduction under irc 199a for any filing status including the w 2 wage and property limits and the phase out for specified service businesses open spm threshold calculator calculate supplemental poverty measure thresholds by family composition housing tenure and local area open tanf calculator see tanf eligibility and benefit amounts for us households across all states open about us donate developer tools privacy policy terms and conditions 2026 policyengine all rights reserved subscribe to policyengine get the latest posts delivered right to your inbox subscribe