Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)

The 2009 Employer Guide: Educate Your Employees About the Benefits They’ve Earned

The 2009 Employer Guide: Educate Your Employees About the Benefits They’ve Earned, from Corporate Voices for Working Families. includes a useful guide to help you educate your workers about the federal benefits they may be eligible for, including the Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, and energy and food assistance. For the first time, the 2009 Toolkit also includes a section focused on the needs of older workers.

Reform the EITC to Better Serve our Nation’s Low Income Workers

Stephen Goldsmith, former mayor of Indianapolis and the Daniel Paul Professor of Government at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, argues for the need to restructure the current EITC system.

The Earned Income Tax Credit

This research paper by Ron Haskins, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies at The Brookings Institution looks at the history, successes and failures of the Earned Income Tax Credit and why its important to America's working families.

The Earned Income Tax Credit: Boosting Employment, Aiding the Working Poor

This report by Center on Budget and Policy Priorities demostrates how the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) has helped working families since its induction in 1975. The EITC has been found to produce substantial increases in employment and reductions in welfare receipt among single parents, as well as large decreases in poverty.