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Title: Strategies for Assisting Low-Income Families

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Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: We focus on short, intermediate, and longer-term policies that might improve the economic prospects of low-income households. In the short-run, what they most need is jobs. In the intermediate term, even if they were employed, many of them would not earn enough to support a family unless their wages were boosted by programs such as the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) or a higher minimum wage. In the longer-term, they need better education and stronger families. Accordingly, we look at each of these four paths to moving more low-income households into the middle class, showing what each might achieve based on new estimates of the impact of each strategy on annual earnings.

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Authors: Karpilow, Quentin; Sawhill, Isabel

Publisher: Center on Children & Families at Brookings

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Topics: Other, Poverty and Welfare

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