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Data Snapshot: EITC Continues to Reach Families in Poor Places
Andrew Schaefer, Marybeth Mattingly, Kennedy Nickerson , Jess Carson
October 9, 2018
Recent proposals in the House and Senate (for example, the Grow American Incomes Now Act) focus on amplifying the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)—a refundable tax credit for low-income workers—to compensate for growing wage inequity. We find that the share of EITC filers who are families with children is especially high in the poorest counties (those counties outlined in black on Map 1),...