Burdens accessing tax benefits are highly inequitable. Your employer based health insurance subsidy is automated, earnings reporting from your salaried job is automated. Low-wage workers face an array of obstacles, which you don't, to access the growing pool of benefits distributed through the IRS

DMdonmoyn.bsky.socialJan 31, 2024 3:16pm

New from me & @pamherd.bsky.social: how the US welfare state has evolved Good news: programs that have grown have become less burdensome. Bad news: there is greater inequality in the experience of burden. (Please support the non-Taylor Swift take industry) donmoynihan.substack.com/p/fewer-burd...

Fewer burdens but greater inequality?

The implications of moving more of the safety net through the tax system

And gig workers trying to accurately file face a truly daunting task.