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Who Knows about the Earned Income Tax Credit?

Katherin Ross Phillips
January 1, 2001
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The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the largest cash transfer program for low-income parents in the United States. The refundable tax credit supplements wages and offsets taxes paid by low-income workers. Research suggests that the EITC has not only been effective in moving families over the poverty line, but it has also encouraged work among single mothers.

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