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Making Work Pay Enough: Decent Standard of Living for Working Families (PDF)
By Gregory Acs, Margery Austin Turner
July 2008

Summary: This paper presents a proposal for a package of program reforms and policy initiatives that increase purchasing power; reduce taxes on incremental earnings of entry-level workers; and cut the costs of big-ticket necessities like health insurance, child care, and housing. Making work pay for working families requires tackling both the income side and the expenditure side of working family budgets. A package of reforms is proposed that provides more support to the lowest income working families, modest tax relief for the average low-income working family, and a targeted boost for low-income families with particularly high expenses. This proposal will help cover high housing costs among low-income working families and expand the availability of moderately priced housing in the marketplace. Contains 24 references.

Index Terms: Community Needs Assessment, Environment, Federal Funding, Policies, Working Families, Affordability, Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)

Publisher: Urban Institute

Publication Type: Reports (Descriptive)

Pages: 21 pages
Language: English
URL: http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/411710_work_pay.pdf

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Washington, District of Columbia 20037
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http://www.urban.org/

 
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