Pursuing Good Rather than Harm with the EITC and CTC

Michelle Lyon Drumbl, Tax Credits for the Working Poor: A Call for Reform (2019).

Kristin Hickman

Mention the IRS, and for most, the first thought to come to mind is not alleviating poverty. Most people think of the IRS as the nation’s tax collector, processing tax returns and enforcing the tax laws to finance the government. Yet, for many years now, the IRS also has served as one of the federal government’s most significant antipoverty agencies. The IRS administers the Earned […]