A Hand Up for Lower-Income Families

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) offers a way to support lower-income families without generating stigma, Sarah Halpern-Meekin, Laura Tach, Kathryn Edin, and Jennifer Sykes write in Contexts magazine:

Unlike so many other government programs, assistance via the tax system does not make EITC beneficiaries feel they are marked as anything other than American.