The Fiscal Times, March 3, 2016: 8 Million Adults Could Be Driven into Poverty — Because They Have Jobs
“While federal tax laws generally are designed to protect poor families from falling below the federal poverty level by income and payroll taxes, that’s not so for millions of childless adults. For years, they have been largely excluded from the federal Earned Income Tax Credit, an anti-poverty program designed to offset the income and payroll taxes of struggling low-income workers and their families.”