…businesses on the margin that have been forced to lay off or furlough employees may not bring them back if it means crossing that $7 million payroll threshold. The tax would discourage smaller companies from
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Notably, the sample consists of families with a mean income-to-needs ratio (INR) of 0.95, indicating that average family income falls below the poverty threshold. Moreover, 26% of the families reported INRs lower than 0.50, 60% had INRs lower than 1, whereas 92% had INRs lower than 2....
Those with the lowest income qualify for the biggest credits. Those with incomes above the phase-out threshold qualify for lower credits until they reach the point where the credit is eliminated completely. The rules have been liberalized to result in higher credits for many households, especially...
The midpoint of the income range selected was used for each participant. Parents also reported the number of people in the household. Income-to-needs ratio was calculated by dividing the parent-reported family income by the poverty threshold for a family of that size for the year 2017 as ...
The dependent variable is a dummy variable equal to one if a family’s income falls below the federal government’s threshold for poverty, and zero otherwise. The evidence yields negative point estimates (implying poverty reductions) for both types of living wage laws, but only the estimated ...
Notes:In 2016, the substantial gainful activity (SGA) threshold is $1,130 per month for non-blind individuals and $1,820 per month for statutorily blind persons. For SSI, the SGA threshold does not apply to blind individuals and applies only at the time of application to disabled individua...
A drawback of minimum wage policy is that many of those better off after a minimum wage increase are not in poor or even near-poor families, but rather in families with earnings and other income sources that place them far above the poverty threshold. These are not workers for whom the ...