Chris Wimer, the lead author on the paper and a researcher at Columbia, said Ryan’s conclusion ignores the major expansion of the earned-income tax credit in 1993 and the roaring dotcom economy of the mid-to-late 1990s. “While our data cant disentangle those three things, attributing the decline in poverty after 1993 to the welfare reform of 1996 seems to go beyond what the data show,” Wimer said . - See more at: thefiscaltimes/Articles/2014/03/04/Economists-Say-Paul-Ryan-Misrepresented-Their-Research#sthash.ghXTxPdy.dpuf
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