so imagine my shock when i then went on bennington street and arrived at the local h&r block where of course about 70% of eitc claimants fill out the tax reforms and actually collect their tax. and standing there with my colleagues wearing sandwich boards to get them to participate in our study, people would come out after giving h&r block $200 to file their taxes saying things like, "i've got people." or, "i feel like a real american." even, "i feel proud to be a taxpayer." now my financial advisor tells me i shouldn't be paying as many taxes as i am. so i've never really felt proud to be a taxpayer. but these testaments of citizenships were just unexpected and really remarkable in our work. and we didn't just expand the eidc. we also made it easier for children of working parents to stay on medicaid and we made it easier for them to get on s.n.a.p. i think we could argue that one of the legacies of welfare reform is the working poor are, at least in terms of money, arguably better off than at any time in american history, as long as they work full time, full year. okay. that's enoug