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Linking tax refunds and low-cost bank accounts: early lessons for program design and evaluation 

This article describes a pilot program encouraging low-income workers to have their tax refunds directly deposited into low-cost bank accounts....

Daniel T. Slesnick, Consumption and Social Welfare: Living Standards and Their Distribution in the United States.(Book Review) 

Daniel T. Slesnick, Consumption and Social Welfare: Living Standards and Their Distribution in the United States - Book Review 

New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. $54.95 hardcover. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. $54.95 hardcover. How should...

What social workers need to know about the earned income tax credit 

Over the past decade, the federal earned income tax credit (EITC) has become the largest antipoverty program in the United States. For the 2002 tax...

Material hardship in the United States: Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation 

Measures of material hardship, which identify households that do not consume minimal levels of very basic goods and services such as food, housing,...