The Earned-Income Tax Credit Is worth far less in San Francisco. Should we fix that?
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But national income limits for the tax benefit make it far more valuable to the working poor in low-cost parts of the country, and far less effective at boosting workforce participation in more expensive regions, according to a report from Andrew Hanson and Zackary Hawley, economists at the right-leaning R Street Institute.
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