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Publication Date: January 2008
Publisher: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (Washington, D.C.)
Author(s): Robert Greenstein
Research Area:
Keywords: Tax code; Economic inequality; Food costs; Job displacement
Type: Report
Abstract:
Although the package includes a reasonably designed tax rebate, the two most targeted and economically effective measures under consideration--a temporary extension of unemployment benefits and a temporary boost in food stamp benefits--were zeroed out, apparently at the insistence of House Republican leaders.