Earned Income Tax Credit

Newt Gingrich and the GOP's New Welfare Talking Points

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics


Robert Schlesinger

Remember welfare? The GOP does, fondly. Not that they want pre-Clinton welfare programs back, they just want the issue back (kind of how they miss the...

Reagan the Redistributor: Check Out the Earned Income Tax Credit

Paul Abrams | Posted 10.28.2008 | Politics


Paul Abrams

The earned income tax credit, providing additional income to people below certain income levels, was expanded in 1986 by... could it be... Ronald Reagan. He was a redistributor.

Helping Low-Income Taxpayers Get Their Due

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics


Marian Wright Edelman

Great news: Within the thousands of pages of tax law lies a provision called the Earned Income Tax Credit that enables many working poor families to climb out of poverty.

Economics and Presidential Politics -- "It's Globalization, Stupid"

Derek Shearer | Posted 02.29.2008 | Politics


Derek Shearer

Democrats are in danger of repeating history unless they think strategically about the international economy and frame the issue of trade in a progressive context.