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Is The Federal Earned Income Tax Credit a Good Avenue for Stimulus Payments?

Monday, August 24th, 2009

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was designed to get the economy moving again by getting people to spend money. It’s off to a slow start, because most of what the plan calls for is new spending: new infrastructure projects, new subsidies for alternative fuels, new educational stimulus money, and more local handouts. But there’s already a “stimulus” plan in place that can handle all that, and more! (more…)