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The Poor Get Richer

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 23, 2007
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Wall Street Journal on the growth in earnings and income of low-income families with children from 1991-2005. The CBO report identifies a few reasons for this, including: job growth/lower unemployment, welfare reform which encourages work, and expansion of the federal refundable Earned Income Tax Credit.

Didn’t someone else recently make this same argument?

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