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Marr's novel tells the story of someone with an income right around the poverty line, so that he can celebrate an EITC program that is *intentionally* designed to exclude the very poor. Write a novel about a jobless and homeless single mom getting rejected for the EITC! https://twitter.com/ChuckCBPP/status/1359121968818249734
Write a novel about a black mom applying to dozens of jobs and getting rejected due to racial discrimination which then makes her ineligible for the EITC. White male @ChuckCBPP makes $240,000 a year to act like men can't understand extreme poverty.
What @ChuckCBPP is really getting at here with all his novel talk is that you can tell much more compelling narratives about the "deserving poor" than the poorest people in the country. But rather than realizing this is used to hurt the poorest people, he thinks it's good!
Anyways perhaps this is a good thread to re-up my NYT op ed from yesterday. The EITC is a racist program, not just because it disproportionately excludes POC but because the way it works amplifies well-documented racial discrimination in the labor market https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/08/opinion/biden-stimulus-eitc-child-tax-credit.html?referringSource=articleShare
