Supporting Children and Incentivizing Employment: The Future of the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit

Grant Year: 2024

Tara Watson and David Wessel will lead an effort to assess a variety of policy approaches that provide low-income parents with incentives for employment while protecting children from poverty. They will explore the employment and poverty-reduction impacts of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the Child Tax Credit (CTC), assess how those policies work in tandem, and commission a series of analyses related to the design and impacts of the EITC. The project’s findings will appear in a series of papers and policy briefs.