ABSTRACT
This chapter continues the analysis of anti-poverty programs with a review of three types of policies for low-income workers: job training, the minimum wage, and the earned income tax credit, a form of subsidy for working poor households. Public job training programs and the minimum wage produce mixed results and controversy regarding their effects on the working poor, while the EITC is more widely supported by economic analysts despite its limitations in providing for the basic needs of the poor.
