Providing child tax benefits to low-income parents without earnings may not substantially reduce their employment, suggests a new NBER working paper, Child Tax Benefits and Labor Supply: Evidence from California by Jacob Goldin, Tatiana Homonoff, Neel A. Lal, Ithai Lurie, and Katherine Michelmore.
Most poor people I know bust their ass more than most of the well to do people that I know. They make bad money choices or are hit by life and just can’t get out from under it.