“As good as money in the bank”: Building a personal safety net with the earned income tax credit

Keyphrases

• Safety Net 100%
• Earned Income Tax Credit 100%
• Personal Safety 100%
• Tax Refund 100%
• Bank Buildings 100%
• Shock 66%
• Upward Mobility 66%
• Low-wage Workers 66%
• Insecurity 66%
• Refund 66%
• Low-income 33%
• Depth Interviews 33%
• Daily Life 33%
• Set-aside 33%
• Creditors 33%
• Family Economics 33%
• Family Life 33%
• Resource Allocation Strategy 33%
• Outsider 33%
• Banking System 33%
• Current Consumption 33%
• Self-insurance 33%
• Durable Goods 33%
• Economic Security 33%
• Work-family 33%
• Working Life 33%
• In-kind 33%
• Public Safety Net 33%
• Double Bind 33%
• Uncertainty Conditions 33%
• Formal Banking 33%

Social Sciences

• Banks 100%
• Taxation 100%
• Tax Credit 100%
• Earned Income 100%
• Low Wage 66%
• Family Economics 33%
• Resource Allocation 33%
• Middle Class 33%
• Family 33%
• In-Depth Interview 33%
• Everyday Life 33%
• Low Income 33%
• Luxuries 33%
• Durable Good 33%

Economics, Econometrics and Finance

• Economic Security 33%