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The Earned Income Tax Credit supplements incomes through the tax code, awarding thousands of dollars each year primarily to low-wage workers with kids. But there's a problem: a huge population of eligible workers fails to file their taxes and get the money each year. In 2018, the state of California...

The Earned Income Tax Credit is designed to act as a cash infusion to low-income families. In fact, some experts have called it “one of the largest and most studied antipoverty programs in the United States.” The results reinforce past research on lagging claim rates for a program that was started...

The California Policy Lab released a report this week outlining the results of a two-year study where government agencies and a nonprofit reached out to more than one million low-income residents about how and where to file tax returns. The report stated that the effort was unsuccessful in getting...

As a method for reducing health costs and improving care for people with complex medical problems, an early effort at "hotspotting" patients to get extra attention has turned out to be not so hot. Researchers, including J-PAL affiliate Amy Finkelstein, looked at so-called "superutilizer" patients...