,Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel's Proposed Expansion of the EITC for Childless Workers: An Important Step to Make Work Pay

Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel's Proposed Expansion of the EITC for Childless Workers: An Important Step to Make Work Pay


 

Publication Date: October 2007

Publisher: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Aviva Aron-Dine; Arloc Shermon

Research Area: Labor

Type: Report

Abstract:

The focus on the EITC for childless workers is overdue.  Over the past two decades, policies have been enacted to improve work incentives for low-income working families with children and to help those families make ends meet.  Childless adults, however, have been largely left out of these efforts to promote and reward work.