The Earned Income Tax Credit at 50: Past, present, and future
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), created by Congress in 1975 and expanded several times since, has grown into one of the nation’s largest anti-poverty programs, providing cash to millions of working, low-income families. On June 3, the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy and the Center for Economic Security and Opportunity at Brookings […]