In 2001, the District government instituted its own version of the federal government’s Earned Income Tax Credit, also called the EITC. It's intended to assist low- to moderate-income working families with children. In a recent expansion of DC’s credit in 2015, the District offered access to working families without children and expanded eligibility criteria overall, so that it included more families. How does this tax credit compare to federal assistance programs like SNAP or TANF? Does the credit do what it intends to? How can we evaluate how well it’s working?
To learn more about this, the Lab's Interim Director Sam Quinney will have a discussion with Dr. Bradley Hardy, an associate professor of Public Administration and Policy at American University, and a nonresident senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. He has worked with other policy experts to research the EITC, labor economics, income volatility, and poverty.
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