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How Much Does the Federal Government Spend to Promote Economic Mobility? And for Whom?

The Urban Institute recently released a report entitled: “How Much Does the Government Spend to Promote Economic Mobility? And for Whom?”
The report examines the use of tax subsidies to promote economic mobility and finds that low-income households often own little or no tax; therefore, they are excluded from the government’s primary means of encouraging economic mobility.

To read the report, go to http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?ID=411610