From the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center (http://www.pennbpc.org): Increased income from raising minimum wage is greater, and in most cases, far greater than the loss in benefits and new taxes paid HARRISBURG—As Pennsylvania seriously considers raising the minimum wage for … Continued
From the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (http://www.cbpp.org): Ask your representative to cosponsor the Working Families Tax Relief Act (H.R. 3157), which would expand the federal Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit for 1 in 3 Americans. … Continued
From the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center (http://www.pennbpc.org): HARRISBURG – Senator Robert Casey today joined Senators Sherrod Brown, Michael Bennet, Dick Durbin, and Ron Wyden to introduce the Working Families Tax Relief Act, legislation that would begin to fix our … Continued
From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): Tax season is upon us! You may be scrambling to get your tax return paperwork together and have high hopes to submit everything well before the April 15th deadline (but more likely than not will end … Continued
From Prosperity Now (https://prosperitynow.org/): It’s time to celebrate the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and all the good it does for hard-working U.S. families! Download our toolkit or the resources below to join the conversation! Social Media Messages Use or customize these English- and Spanish-language Tweets and Facebook posts to spread … Continued
Posted at http://www.chn.org/2016/10/05/how-a-tax-credit-changed-my-life/#.V_UdB_krIdU By Kali Daugherty October 5, 2016 Editor’s note: This post was originally published on RESULTS’ blog on September 29. CHN’s recent report, The High Cost of Being Poor in the U.S., also calls for the expansion of the Earned Income Tax … Continued
From the Community Action Association of Pennsylvania (http://www.thecaap.org): The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and low-income Child Tax Credit (CTC) are among the strongest tools to promote work and help workers with children escape poverty and achieve self-sufficiency. But we … Continued