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Expanding State EITCs: Age Enhancements and a Credit Increase for Workers without Children in the Home

February 18, 2020 • By Aidan Davis

For 45 years, the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) has benefited low- and moderate-income workers. Yet, throughout its history, the EITC has provided little or no benefit to workers without children in the home—a group that includes noncustodial parents whose children live the majority of the year with another parent.