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policyengine-user-guide

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Master PolicyEngine web app, analyze policies.

Education & Research#web app#user guide#reform creation#policy analysis#household calculator#poverty#inequality
AuthorPolicyEngine
Version1.0.0
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What problem does it solve?

Users need a clear, comprehensive guide to effectively navigate and utilize the PolicyEngine web application for household calculations and policy analysis. This Skill provides step-by-step instructions, empowering you to quickly understand and leverage the platform's full capabilities.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Household Calculator: Step-by-step instructions for entering your information and viewing personalized tax and benefit results.
  • Policy Reform Creator: Guidance on designing custom policy proposals and understanding their population-wide impacts (budgetary, poverty, distributional, inequality).
  • Results Interpretation: Explanations of key metrics like SPM, Gini coefficient, and income deciles.
  • Use Case: Learn how to create a custom policy reform on policyengine.org, change the Child Tax Credit amount, and then view its impact on poverty rates and income distribution.

Quick Start

Use the policyengine-user-guide skill to explain how to calculate your household's taxes and benefits on policyengine.org/us/household.

Dependency Matrix

Required Modules

None required

Components

Standard package

💻 Claude Code Installation

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Please help me install this Skill:
Name: policyengine-user-guide
Download link: https://github.com/PolicyEngine/policyengine-claude/archive/main.zip#policyengine-user-guide

Please download this .zip file, extract it, and install it in the .claude/skills/ directory.
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