When a poor person gets a low-wage job, that employment also brings in additional money in the form of the earned income tax credit and other refunds. This hour, as part of KERA’s series One Crisis Away: Inside a Neighborhood, we’ll talk about why even with that extra income, it’s still tough for low-earners to get by with University of Wisconsin assistant professor Sarah Halpern-Meekin. She’s part of a team of researchers that explores the topic in the book It’s Not Like I’m Poor: How Working Families Make Ends Meet in a Post-Welfare World (University of California Press).
