PolicyEngine / PolicyEngine/policyengine-api
Budgetary impact waterfall broken for End Child Poverty Act
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- Dominant language
- Python
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- Forks
- 33
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Description
Both the total amount and allocation between federal and state (should be all federal) is wrong. Not sure how much is -api vs -us.
PolicyEngine-powered article last year found $270 billion https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2023/08/10/the-end-child-poverty-act-would-dramatically-reduce-poverty/
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the End Child Poverty Act result from the linked PolicyEngine US policy page and compare the total with the reported $270 billion. Trace the API calculation behind the budgetary impact waterfall; done means the total is correct and the allocation shows the result as entirely federal.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- api, backend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100