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The Effects of the New York City Minimum Wage Increases on Earnings, Poverty, and Material Hardship: Evidence from the Poverty Tracker
This report examines the impact that the New York City minimum wage increases in 2017, 2018, and 2019 had on low-wage workers in the Poverty Tracker sample, looking specifically at earnings, poverty, material hardship, employment, and benefit receipt. The increases contributed to a significant increase in annual earnings of minimum wage workers and did benefit workers that were more likely to face poverty and material hardship.
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The Increased Antipoverty Effects of the Expanded Childless Earned Income Tax Credit in 2021
This fact sheet examines the impacts of the 2021 American Rescue Plan expansion of the childless portion of the Earned Income Tax Credit on poverty rates. For all childless adults, but especially for young adults, the temporary expansion of the childless Earned Income Tax Credit enhanced its antipoverty effects.