The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is one of the largest anti-poverty programs in the United States, providing over … low-income workers, the EITC reduces poverty both directly through the credit itself and indirectly through labor supply … the fundamentally different incentives the EITC poses for single- and dual-earner households. However, as the EITC …

Since 1975, the earned income tax credit (EITC) has transformed from a small, obscure provision of the federal tax code … into one of the largest programs in the U.S. social welfare system. Today, the EITC provides $47 billion in benefits each … year to 24 million workers and their families. Bill Clinton famously called the EITC “a cornerstone of our effort to reform …