Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
John Karl Scholz is a professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Treasury Department. Scholz’s writing focuses on wealth accumulation, the earned income tax credit and low-wage labor markets, and intergenerational transfers.
The Hamilton Project hosted a two-part forum on ways to encourage, facilitate, and reward work. Jason Furman provided an overview of a strategy paper, which suggested a long-term approach to expanding opportunity, along with specific near-term policies to promote work and reduce poverty.
Full audio of Panel Two: "Enhancing the Social Safety Net" from the event Facilitating and Rewarding Work
Full audio of Panel 1: "Making Work Pay" from the event Facilitating and Rewarding Work
The Project hosted a two-part forum on ways to encourage, facilitate, and reward work. Jason Furman provided an overview of a strategy paper, which suggested a long-term approach to expanding opportunity, along with specific near-term policies to promote work and reduce poverty.
This paper proposes increasing the return to work for low-income families through the expansion the earned income tax credit for low-income childless taxpayers and the creation of a targeted wage subsidy in certain economically depressed areas.
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