Boosting paychecks

the politics of supporting America's working poor

by Daniel Paul Gitterman

2010 180 pages eng

In this clear-eyed account, Daniel Gitterman focuses on two policy tools that have been used to aid the working poor since the early twentieth century: the federal tax code and the minimum wage. The tax code can be fine-tuned in many ways- through changes to exemptions, deductions, credits, tax brac…