Leave No Child Behind: A Quick Take on How Congress Should Restructure the Child Tax Credit to More Fairly Value Families and Reduce Inequality

This issue brief examines the Child Tax Credit (CTC) in its current form and finds that many of the families with children most in need of additional assistance receive no or little benefit from the credit. The paper analyzes a restructuring of the present CTC put forth by the Brookings Institute and goes on to propose amending the CTC to make it both more inclusive and progressive.

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Year of publication:	2009-01
Authors:	Fremstad, Shawn
Institutions:	Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
Subject:	child tax credit

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	6 pages
Classification:	I - Health, Education, and Welfare ; I3 - Welfare and Poverty ; I38 - Government Policy; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs ; H - Public Economics ; H2 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue ; H24 - Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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