{"id":849,"date":"2011-10-24T12:07:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T16:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=849"},"modified":"2011-10-24T12:07:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T16:07:32","slug":"americans-who-pay-no-income-taxes-eitc-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/10\/americans-who-pay-no-income-taxes-eitc-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans who pay no income taxes, EITC edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/graph1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-851\" title=\"graph1\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/graph1-282x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/graph1-282x300.jpg 282w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/graph1-141x150.jpg 141w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/graph1.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People are leeching off the tax system?<\/p>\n<p>But this turns out to be fairly misleading. A new study offers a more nuanced look at the role the Earned Income Tax Credit actually plays in the U.S. economy. The EITC, remember, is a refundable tax credit that helps supplement the income of poor employed workers with children. The formula\u2019s a bit complicated, but a worker with two kids making $16,000 a year can get up to $5,036 back in taxes. As it turns out, a stunningly large number of Americans use the program.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/post\/americans-who-pay-no-income-taxes-eitc-edition\/2011\/10\/24\/gIQAfbzfCM_blog.html?wprss=ezra-klein\">Americans who pay no income taxes, EITC edition &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People are leeching off the tax system? But this turns out to be fairly misleading. A new study offers a more nuanced look at the role the Earned Income Tax Credit actually plays in the U.S. economy. The EITC, remember, is a refundable tax credit that helps supplement the income of poor employed workers with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[521,141,520,87],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}