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Harvard Kennedy School Insight

Featured Interview: Kathryn Edin

Professor of Public Policy and Management

Poverty in America:

“Whereas full time, full year workers who used to be on welfare are now probably better off than they’ve been in a long time – largely because of the [earned income] tax credit – those who aren’t able to sustain full time work are possibly worse off than they’ve ever been before. At any given time roughly a third of people who used to be on the welfare rolls are without any visible means of support. We know very little about how those people or their children are doing.”

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