Employment Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit


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The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the cornerstone U.S. anti-poverty program, typically lifting over 5 million children out of poverty each year. Targeted to low-income households with children, and only available to those who work, the EITC contains strong incentives for non- workers to become employed. Most of the existing economics literature focuses on federal EITC expansions in the 1980s and 1990s. Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach and Michael Strain discuss a longer view, studying all federal expansions since the program’s inception in 1975.

Photos Courtesy of Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach and Michael Strain

Image courtesy of interviewee. November 12, 2020

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