Analyzing Recent State Tax Policy Choices Affecting Low-Income Working Families: The Recession and Beyond

From the Urban Institute, this article reviews State tax policy in times of recession. Often times, tax increases carries a higher tax burden for low-income working families. However, low-income families can be protected from increases through the use of state earned income tax credits. In this policy brief, authors outline state tax changes that affected low-income families in the past four years.