Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Update: California Expansion, Federal Inaction

Author(s): Coghlan, Erin; Hinkley, Sara | Abstract: The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is now the primary anti-poverty program in the U.S., but it has not kept up with wage stagnation. Berkeley faculty recently proposed an increase in the federal EITC, California has adopted an expansion of its own state EITC, and Congress passed a tax bill that fails to help EITC recipients.