SOCY 1072 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Child Tax Credit, Working Poor, Living Wage
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Work and family policy: balancing work and family. When you write your reflection paper, feel free to write what did and did not work: the professors will take into account praise/concerns for next year. Maybe we need to move away from improving the welfare system if the only true way to get out of poverty in the. Especially given the fact that we have a conservative government right now and need to meet their beliefs. Re-define the agenda of the problem: priorities. Progressive strategies: expand eitc, national minimum wage, equal pay for equal work, return progressivity to tax policy, strengthen collective bargaining. Eitc and living wage (2014: earned income levels. Ways to improve eitc: expand outreach to maximize use. Currently the program reaches only 48% of eligible workers. Many of these people are individual workers with a high school or less education.
