New York Times: Oklahoma Makes the Poor Poorer

“This may seem negligible to the state’s wealthy and middle class, but not to a poor family with a breadwinner struggling at the margins. The method chosen is deporable – cutting the state share of the earned-income tax credit for low-income workers, a federal program widely praised as an effective life from poverty. “It’s one of the most valuable antipovery programs on the books today,” Carl Davis, research director for the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, told The Tulsa World.”

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