Working-Family Tax Credit Essentials, Part 5: The Impact in Your State

Previous posts in this series on our new chart book have explained that the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit (CTC):

• lift 9 million people in working families out of poverty while making 22 million others less poor;
• help families at virtually every stage in life, from improved infant health to increased work and earnings in adulthood;
• will shrink significantly if Congress lets key provisions expire after 2017; and
• would do much more to encourage work among childless adults under bipartisan proposals to expand the EITC.

Our chart book also includes fact sheets with by-state data on how the EITC and CTC reduce poverty, who benefits, and how state EITCs can supplement the federal credit.  The fact sheets also give state-specific data on the impact of making the key EITC and CTC provisions permanent and of strengthening the EITC for childless adults.  Click on a state below for its fact sheet.