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Building Guardrails for the Benefits Cliff

GOVERNING: Parents receiving modestly higher earnings risk a loss of child care assistance and other government benefits. It’s called “the benefits cliff”: a tax rate of more than 100 percent when a parent loses more than a dollar in benefits for each additional dollar earned. Abt’s Christine Tappan details what policymakers are doing to address it.

 
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