Jacob J. Lew: “We have to invest in the short and medium term to get the kind of economy that gives people a chance.”

The earned income tax credit is one of the most effective programs we have had, both to reduce poverty and to get people.

If you have a house on a block with blighted housing on it, if you do not remove the blighted housing, your chances of staying above water are really tough.

If we do not have the resources to hire the enforcement officers that we need, the tax gap will only grow.

We need to support the people at the IRS so that they can run a tax system that is worthy of our country.