Melissa S. Kearney

We also propose changes that would reduce penalties on marriage & working spouses.
Our tax proposal is pro-work & pro-family and should have bipartisan appeal.

Supporting Families, Rewarding Work: A Proposal to Reform and Enhance the EITC and the CTC • The Aspen Institute Economic Strategy Group The federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the Child Tax Credit (CTC) are important sources of income support to workers with low earnings and to low-income families with children. In this policy...

Tax reform discussions should revisit the EITC & CTC.
In a new AESG policy proposal, Luke Pardue, Ella Grant, and I propose streamlining the EITC to refocus it on supplementing wages & making the CTC the primary tax vehicle for getting income to kids -
www.economicstrategygroup.org/publication/...