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Pages 137-143

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... • Adjunctive eligibility could be allowed for infants, children, and pregnant and post-partum individuals in households that partici pate in CHIP, Head Start, Early Head Start, or the Food Distribu tion Program on Indian Reservations. The committee was unable to develop a cost estimate for this policy change.
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From page 139...
... and more recent changes in the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) appear to have reduced intergenerational poverty.
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From page 140...
... Evidence on the causal impact of wealth on intergenerational poverty is suggestive, but does not support strong conclusions. Given direct evidence linking reductions in intergenerational poverty to programs that increase both family income and parental employment, the committee outlines several possible expansions of the EITC (perhaps accompanied by other changes in tax credits)
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From page 141...
... Due to higher rates of nonresponse to survey questions about income and resources at the top and bottom end of the income distribution, and to changes in the U.S. Census Bureau's top-coding procedure across time (Bollinger et al., 2018)
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From page 142...
... The near doubling of household incomes at the bottom end of the distribution over the past half century has significantly reduced child poverty. Using an Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM)
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From page 143...
... . Conclusion 6-1: When tax credits, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, and other noncash sources are counted as part of in come, the family incomes of children on the bottom rungs of the income distribution have nearly doubled over the past 40 years, and rates of child poverty have been cut in half.
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  • income tax
  • earned income
  • parental employment
  • child poverty
  • federal reserve

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  • tax credits
  • employment rates
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  • parental income
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