White House economist Jason Furman talks with David Wessel about why so many men in the prime working ages of 25 to 54 are neither working or looking for work.
Invest instead 1/10 to 6/10 of GDP like other OECD countries on Unemployment Insurance
- Raise the Minimum Wage
- Earned Income Tax Credit
- Make education more accessible
http://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/earned-income-tax-credits-for-working-families.aspx
Earned Income Tax Credit
State/Jurisdiction
|
Number of Recipients
|
Average EITC Amount
|
Total EITC Amount
|
|---|---|---|---|
Alabama
|
516 K
|
$2,732
|
$1.4 B
|
Alaska
|
49 K
|
$2,049
|
$99.5 M
|
Arizona
|
566 K
|
$2,530
|
$1.4 B
|
Arkansas
|
302 K
|
$2,552
|
$771 M
|
California
|
3.1 M
|
$2,373
|
$7.3 B
|
Colorado
|
358 K
|
$2,174
|
$777 M
|
Connecticut
|
221 K
|
$2,140
|
$472 M
|
Delaware
|
73 K
|
$2,309
|
$170 M
|
Florida
|
2 M
|
$2,450
|
$5.2 B
|
Georgia
|
1.1 M
|
$2,692
|
$2.9 B
|
Hawaii
|
110 K
|
$2,175
|
$239 M
|
Idaho
|
135 K
|
$2,283
|
$307 M
|
Illinois
|
1 M
|
$2,437
|
$2.5 B
|
Indiana
|
558 K
|
$2,346
|
$1.3 B
|
Iowa
|
212 K
|
$2,182
|
$462 M
|
Kansas
|
214 K
|
$2,307
|
$494 M
|
Kentucky
|
409 K
|
$2,351
|
$961 M
|
Louisiana
|
519 K
|
$2,741
|
$1.4 B
|
Maine
|
102 K
|
$2,035
|
$207 M
|
Maryland
|
417 K
|
$2,297
|
$958 M
|
Massachusetts
|
406 K
|
$2,050
|
$833 M
|
Michigan
|
823 K
|
$2,387
|
$1.96 B
|
Minnesota
|
344 K
|
$2,124
|
$732 M
|
Mississippi
|
390 K
|
$2,817
|
$1.1 B
|
Missouri
|
519 K
|
$2,377
|
$1.2 B
|
Montana
|
80 K
|
$2,096
|
$168 M
|
Nebraska
|
136 K
|
$2,271
|
$310 M
|
Nevada
|
244 K
|
$2,372
|
$579 M
|
New Hampshire
|
79 K
|
$1,926
|
$153 M
|
New Jersey
|
596 K
|
$2,281
|
$1.4 B
|
New Mexico
|
214 K
|
$2,405
|
$515 M
|
New York
|
1.8 M
|
$2,309
|
$4.1 B
|
North Carolina
|
931 K
|
$2,462
|
$2.3 B
|
North Dakota
|
43 K
|
$2,051
|
$87.3 M
|
Ohio
|
963 K
|
$2,364
|
$2.3 B
|
Oklahoma
|
337 K
|
$2,449
|
$825 M
|
Oregon
|
279 K
|
$2,101
|
$586 M
|
Pennsylvania
|
936 K
|
$2,185
|
$2.0 B
|
Rhode Island
|
84 K
|
$2,264
|
$190 M
|
South Carolina
|
494 K
|
$2,504
|
$1.2 B
|
South Dakota
|
66 K
|
$2,143
|
$141 M
|
Tennessee
|
657 K
|
$2,492
|
$1.6 B
|
Texas
|
2.6 M
|
$2,661
|
$7.0 B
|
Utah
|
195 K
|
$2,320
|
$452 M
|
Vermont
|
45 K
|
$1,894
|
$86 M
|
Virginia
|
614 K
|
$2,287
|
$1.4 B
|
Washington
|
448 K
|
$2,145
|
$960 M
|
West Virginia
|
158 K
|
$2,211
|
$349 M
|
Wisconsin
|
391 K
|
$2,167
|
$848 M
|
Wyoming
|
39 K
|
$2,038
|
$79.5 M
|
District of Columbia
|
54 K
|
$2,316
|
$125 M
|
Total
|
28M
|
$2,407
|
$66B
|
Source: Internal Revenue Service, Statistics for Tax Returns with EITC (Washington, D.C.: IRS, July 2016).
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