As the Trump Administration and Congressional Republicans attempt to portray a tax plan slanted to the top 1 percent as “middle-class” tax relief, it’s worth asking what actual tax relief for American workers would look like. Among the ideas that should be at the top of the list should be expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), a policy that provides millions of low-income American workers with up to a few thousand dollars when they file their taxes.

Just last month MDRC, a nonpartisan social-policy research group, released interim findings on a major pilot, Paycheck Plus, that provided an up-to-$2,000 bonus to childless workers at tax time.  The study, which was designed by top economists including Harvard’s Lawrence Katz, included a randomized control trial involving more than 6,000 low-income, single adults without dependent children in New York City, half of whom received the bonus. It found that bonus boosted income (including the bonus) and rates of employment. The researchers linked the pilot to other positive results, such as increased tax filing and increased child-support payments.

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