The Rainy Day Earned Income Tax Credit: A Reform to Boost Financial Security by Helping Low-Wage Workers Build Emergency Savings

Sarah Halpern-Meekin; Sara Sternberg Greene; Ezra Levin; Kathryn Edin

doi:10.7758/RSF.2018.4.2.08

Article Information

vol. 4 no. 2 161-176

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.2.08

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online February 1, 2018.

© 2018 Russell Sage Foundation. Halpern-Meekin, Sarah, Sara Sternberg Greene, Ezra Levin, and Kathryn Edin. 2018. “The Rainy Day Earned Income Tax Credit: A Reform to Boost Financial Security by Helping Low-Wage Workers Build Emergency Savings.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 4(2): 161–76. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.2.08. The authors benefited from the input of Miren Beitia (Community Tax Aid), Maria Cancian (University of Wisconsin–Madison), Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Janie Oliphant, and Phillip Poirier (Center for Social Development), Steve Holt (HoltSolutions), Chye-Ching Huang (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities), Clint Key (Pew Charitable Trusts), Justin King and Rachel Black (New America), Yuri Kim (United Way of King County), David Marzahl and Dylan Bellisle (Center for Economic Progress), Robin McKinney (Maryland CASH Campaign), and David Sieminski (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau). Note that the recommendations made in this paper are the authors’ alone and do not necessarily reflect the recommendations of these reviewers. Direct correspondence to: Sarah Halpern-Meekin at sarah.halpernmeekin@wisc.edu, School of Human Ecology, 1300 Linden Dr., University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI 53706; Sara Sternberg Greene at greene@law.duke.edu, Duke University School of Law, 210 Science Dr., Durham, NC 27708; Ezra Levin at ezra@indivisibleguide.com, 924 Spring Rd NW, Washington, D.C. 20010; and Kathryn Edin at kathy_edin@jhu.edu, Department of Sociology, 533 Mergenthaler Hall, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Sarah Halpern-Meekin^a,
Sara Sternberg Greene^b,
Ezra Levin^c and
Kathryn Edin^d

^aAssociate professor in human development and family studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
^bAssociate professor at Duke University School of Law
^cPresident of the board of directors at the Indivisible Project
^cBloomberg Distinguished Professor in Sociology and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University

Corresponding authors:
Sarah Halpern-Meekin, (sarah.halpernmeekin{at}wisc.edu); Sara Sternberg Greene, (greene{at}law.duke.edu); Ezra Levin, (ezra{at}indivisibleguide.com); Kathryn Edin (kathy_edin{at}jhu.edu)

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