EITC Policy

A Hand Up for Michigan Workers: Michigan’s State Earned Income Tax Credit (Michigan Catholic Conference and Anderson Economic Group) (Jan. 28, 2008).

Metro Raise: Boosting the Earned Income Tax Credit to Help Metropolitan Workers and Families (Brookings Institution, June 2008) This report examines the impact in each of the 50 states and the 100 largest cities in the U.S. of expanding the EITC in the following three ways: 1) tripling the EITC for ‘childless’ workers; 2)     allowing dual-earner married couples to exclude one-half of a second-earner’s income when calculating the EITC; and 3) increasing the EITC for families with three or more children.