Professor Laura Tach discusses the Earned Income Tax Credit and explains why it is one of the most effective anti-poverty programs in America.
For more on this topic
- Learn more in Tach’s book, It’s Not Like I’m Poor, and her brief How Low-Income Americans Understand and React to the Earned Income Tax Credit.
- Check out her New York Times opinion piece When Taxes Aren't a Drag with Kathryn Edin.