Should the earned income tax credit rise for childless adults?

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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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: IZA World of Labor ; ISSN: 2054-9571 ; Year: 2015 ; Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: Public Policy
• Subject: employment ; less-educated men ; childless ; low-income adults ; non-custodial parents

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Holzer, Harry J.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2015

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.15185/izawol.184
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/125407
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET