The Earned Income Tax Credit: Helping Families at a Surprisingly Low Cost
Jacob Bastian | 29 November 2018
Fiscal,
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Inequality,
Poverty,
Tax Expenditures Amid growing concerns over stagnant rates of intergenerational mobility, little to no wage growth for low-skilled workers, and declining rates of labor force participation, policymakers are interested in approaches to strengthen incentives to work, increase household income for disadvantaged families, and increase children’s economic opportunity.
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Fighting Poverty with Taxes
Patricia K. Tong | 21 November 2017
Fiscal,
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Inequality,
Poverty,
Tax Expenditures One way the U.S. federal income tax system provides low-income families with financial support is through refundable tax credits. Families can claim refundable tax credits even if they do not owe any tax liability, which allows families with the lowest incomes to receive benefits.
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At Whose Service? Jobs and Services Trade in Developing Countries
Johannes Schwarzer | 17 November 2014
Trade,
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Development,
Employment,
Poverty,
Services Trade,
WTO Services-led Employment Growth? Creating jobs to match their ever increasing, relatively young labor forces is probably the biggest challenge that developing countries are facing in the medium term. Reducing unemployment is perhaps the most effective tool to achieve a wide range of development goals, such
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Asia’s Poor Increase by One-Billion Overnight
Jean-Pierre Lehmann | 16 September 2014
Trade,
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G20,
IMF,
Poverty,
Trade,
WTO The news has been exceptionally bad recently: carnage in the Middle East, race riots in the US, ongoing recession in the Eurozone and Japan, tension in the South China Sea, high youth unemployment virtually everywhere, the Ebola epidemic and so on and so depressingly forth.
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