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Close up of American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 bill

Making the change permanent would improve the return to work for older workers.  Among many other things, the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act increased eligibility and the amount of the earned income tax credit (EITC) for taxpayers with no qualifying children for 2021.  In particular, the legislation lowered the minimum age to claim t…

happy older couple looking onward

If people need to work and can work, they will work. That’s my takeaway from a new set of data that sketches a clearer picture of U.S. workers who are holding down multiple jobs. Nearly 8 percent of workers had two or more jobs in 2018, the latest year of data available from the U.S…