RealClear Policy. November 2018. Jae-June Lee, a summer fellow for the Georgetown Center for Poverty and Inequality, and Donovan Hicks, a research associate for the Center for American Progress, recommended increasing the value of the EITC and allowing recipients to claim the credit in advance installments to aid low-income families impacted by extreme weather events.

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