Congress should approve President’s proposal to strengthen the Earned Income Tax Credit

The President’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2015 includes several important improvements to the pro-work Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit (CTC) that, taken together, will reduce poverty among low-wage workers and their families, reduce income inequality, strengthen work incentives and send federal dollars to local communities. Congress should approve these proposals.

Expanding the now-tiny EITC for working childless adults and non-custodial parents (“childless workers”), an idea that has support across the political spectrum, would help 515,000 people in Ohio.[1]

In 2013, a childless adult working full time at the minimum wage earned too much to receive the EITC, despite paying significant federal income and payroll taxes. Partly as a result, childless workers are the sole group of workers that the federal tax system taxes into