Should the earned income tax credit rise for childless adults?

Harry Holzer

IZA World of Labor, 2015, No 184, 184

Abstract: The earned income tax credit provides important benefits to low-income families with children in the US. At an annual cost of about $60 billion, it increases the incomes of such families while encouraging parents to work more by subsidizing their incomes. But low-income adults without children and non-custodial parents receive only very low payments under the program, providing them with little income benefits or work incentives. Many of these adults are low-income young men whose wages and employment rates have been declining for years and who might benefit substantially from expanded eligibility for the earned income tax credit.

Keywords: employment; less-educated men; childless; low-income adults; non-custodial parents (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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