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How Would Changes to the Earned Income Tax Credit Affect Rural Recipients?

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  • Durst, Ron L.

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The earned income tax credit (EITC) has become a major source of income support for low-income rural workers and their families, especially in the South, where the rural poor are concentrated. Program benefits for rural areas are expected to total about $6 billion in 1996, nearly double the 1992 amount, providing benefits to an estimated 4.5 million low-income rural workers and their families. Increasing concerns about escalating costs and the targeting of benefits may result in changes to the EITC program that would reduce both benefit levels and the number of eligible low-income rural workers. Proposed changes to improve the targeting of benefits would exclude many farmers from the program.

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  • Durst, Ron L., 1996. "How Would Changes to the Earned Income Tax Credit Affect Rural Recipients?," Agricultural Information Bulletins 33743, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uersab:33743
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.33743
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    1. Sheila Mammen & Frances Lawrence & Peter Marie & Ann Berry & Suzann Knight, 2011. "The Earned Income Tax Credit and Rural Families: Differences Between Non-participants and Participants," Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Springer, vol. 32(3), pages 461-472, September.
    2. Nord, Mark, 2001. "Household Food Security in the Rural South: Assuring Access to Enough Food for Healthy Lives," Miscellaneous Publications 334177, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

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