2026-09-30 US newsletter: graded 2025 poverty prediction, dashboard, recording

[MaxGhenis]

US newsletter for Wednesday, September 30, 9am ET, led by the graded 2025 poverty prediction, with the Child Poverty Impact Dashboard as the action item.

Sections

• Lead: Our 2025 poverty prediction, graded (PolicyEngine/policyengine-app-v2#1214, /us/research/2025-spm-poverty-prediction), with the prediction chart.
• Action item: Child Poverty Impact Dashboard.
• Webinar recording: the September 15 webinar (youtu.be/TKf1D13FZiQ), slides, and our guests' new work (the PN-3 2026 State Policy Roadmap and Niskanen's family benefits report card).
• What Census reported: the 2025 SPM recap post and the threshold calculator.
• In the model: FY2027 SNAP parameters, court-supervision child care rules in 34 states and DC, California CCHIP, the SNAP child support correction, and retirement exclusions. The count is 81 policyengine-us releases since September 8, per PyPI; recount before sending.

Every figure comes from the linked posts, the policyengine-us changelog, or PyPI.

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