Size of cash and near-cash transfer programmes (unemployment benefits, means-tested assistance, universal child benefits). Architecturally distinct from forced-saving schemes — see condition welfare_architecture.
Ease of hiring/firing, collective-bargaining scope, minimum wage rigidity, temporary/permanent contract regulation.
The Earned Income Tax Credit was substantially expanded in OBRA-1993 — phasing in a higher three-or-more-children credit, raising the maximum credit, and lowering the phase-in earnings required — and was preserved through the 1996 welfare-reform debate as the principal work-conditioned income support for low-wage households. Together with the 1996 PRWORA shift to TANF, the expanded EITC restructured the U.S. anti-poverty system around employment-conditioned tax credits rather than open-ended cash assistance.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.