Ending Hunger in America, 2014 Hunger Report Full Report | Page 85

CHAPTER 2
low-income families with children where a parent does the right thing by holding a job.
Every year the EITC lifts millions of families with children out of poverty. It moved an
average of 6 million people above the poverty line in each of the years 2009, 2010, and 2011, and
it reduced the effects of poverty for an additional 21 million people whose incomes remained
below the poverty line.92 The program has been around long enough that researchers have
data to show that children whose families claimed the EITC credit are earning higher
incomes as adults and relying less
on