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Sep 2005	Strengthening Private Sources of Retirement Savings for Low-Income Families
Oct 2004	Banking the Poor
Apr 2004	Financial Education and Asset Building Programs for Welfare Recipients and Low Income Workers: The Illinois Experience
Mar 2004	State Earned Income Tax Credits
Feb 2004	EITC Interactive Website
Dec 2003	Interactive Data on the Earned Income Tax Credit
Dec 2003	Lifting the Lid Off the Family Cap: States Revisit Problematic Policy for Welfare Mothers
Sep 2003	Earned Income Credit: Qualifying Child Certification Test Appears Justified, but Evaluation Plan Is Incomplete
Sep 2003	Benefits and Low Wage Work
Jul 2003	Land Sharks Circling: The Changing Financial Services System and Its Implications for Low-Income Families and Children
Jul 2003	Tax Reform for Families: An Earned Income Tax Credit
May 2003	Earned Income Tax Credit Pre-Certification
Mar 2003	When Work Alone is Not Enough
Jan 2003	The 2003 Earned Income Outreach Kit
Jan 2003	Happy Tax Season! Tax Credits Help Working Families Make Ends Meet
Nov 2002	The Little Engine that Hasn't: The Poor Performance of Employer Tax Credits for Child Care
Oct 2002	Here the Money Isn't: Misplaced Focus of Tax Enforcement Could Be Remedied by Simplifying Credits for Children
Oct 2002	IDA Federal Briefing Book, 2002 about Individual Development Accounts
Apr 2002	Awareness and Use of EITC
Apr 2002	Awareness and Use of the Earned Income Tax Credit Among Current and Former TANF Recipients
Apr 2002	A Local Ladder for the Working Poor: The Impact of the Earned Income Tax Credit in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Mar 2002	Advocasey Issue on Tax Credits
Jan 2002	Refundable Tax Credit Available for Families with Child Care Expenses
Dec 2001	Financial Links for Low-Income People (FLLIP): An Evaluation of Implementation and Initial Training Activity
Dec 2001	Supports for Working Poor Families: A New Approach
Oct 2001	Earnings Supplements and Income Disregards Can Ease the Transition from Welfare to Work
Sep 2001	A Ten Foot Rope for a Forty Foot Hole: Tax Credits for the Uninsured
Jul 2001	Income Support Policy and the U.S. Child Support System
Jul 2001	The Minimum Wage and the Earned Income Tax Credit: A Decade of Progress
Apr 2001	TANF Contingency and Supplemental Funds: Testimony before the United States' House of Representatives
Apr 2001	Promising State Asset Development Policies: Promoting Economic Well-Being Among Low-Income Households
Mar 2001	How Can A State Earned Income Tax Credit Help California's Working Poor Make Ends Meet?
Jan 2001	Increasing the D.C. EITC to 25 Percent of the Federal EITC Would Help Working Families Escape Poverty and Address Continuing Inequities in the D.C. Tax System
Jan 2001	Treatment of Tax Credits for Federal TANF and State "Maintenance of Effort": TANF Program Instruction
Apr 2000	Hispanic Families and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)
Apr 2000	Giving Tax Credit Where Credit Is Due: A �Universal Unified Child Credit’ that expands the EITC and cuts taxes for working families
Mar 2000	State Income Tax Burdens on Low Income Families in 1999
Jan 2000	Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families
Jan 2000	Saving Patterns in IDA Programs
2000	Are We Understanding the Impact of Economic Conditions on Welfare Rolls?
Jul 1998	Does Work Pay? An Analysis of the Work Incentives under TANF
Jan 1995	The Local Path To Making Work Pay: Denver's Earned Income Credit Experience
	A D.C. Earned Income Tax Credit Could Provide Tax Relief and Reduce Child Poverty
	The Changes The New Tax Law Makes In Refundable Tax Credits for Low-Income Working Families
	The Earned Income Tax Credit
	The Earned Income Tax Credit and Employment among Families on Welfare
	The Earned Income Tax Credit and Labor Market Participation of Families on Welfare
	The Earned Income Tax Credit and the Labor Supply of Married Couples
	The Earned Income Tax Credit: Early Evidence
	Financial Work Incentives for Low-Wage Workers
	Getting the Raise They Deserved: The Success of Oregon's Minimum Wage and the Need for Reform
	Health Insurance Deduction of Little Help to the Uninsured
	How do IDAs Affect Benefit Eligibility?
	How Much Would a State Earned Income Tax Credit Cost?
	The Illinois Earned Income Tax Credit
	Incentives, Challenges, and Dilemmas of TANF
	Living Wages: Protection For or Protection From Low-Wage Workers?
	New Markets Tax Credit: Status of Implementation and Issues Related to GAO's Mandated Reports
	The Price of Paying Taxes: How Tax Preparation and Refund Loan Fees Erode the Benefits of the EITC
	Rewarding Work: The Impact of the Earned Income Tax Credit
	Rewarding Work: The Impact of the Earned Income Tax Credit in Chicago
	States Can Use IRS Computer Tapes to Identify Potential Recipients of State Earned Income Tax Credits
	Tax Relief that Works for Working Families
	2002 Earned Income Tax Credit Outreach Kit
	Unemployment Insurance: Role as Safety Net for Low-Wage Workers is Limited
	What If All the Money Came Home?
	The Workforce Investment Act of 1998

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