Budget & Taxes Research Data & Publications
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02/01/06
Keeping What They’ve Earned: Tax Credits for Working Families in Tennessee (February 2006)
"Keeping What They’ve Earned: Tax Credits for Working Families in Tennessee," from February 2006, reports on how low-income families lose billions each year in Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) benefits to high-interest, short-term loans, tax preparation fees, and other financial products issued by commercial tax preparers. The report warns low-income families to avoid Refund Anticipation Loans whose high interest rates cause families to forfeit a significant percentage of their refunds in order to receive their money a little earlier. The report provides action items that lifts children out of poverty by helping their working families keep more of the money they've earned. -
01/01/06
Keeping What They’ve Earned: Tax Credits for Working Families in Ohio (February 2006)
"Keeping What They’ve Earned: Tax Credits for Working Families in Ohio," from February 2006, reports on how low-income families lose billions each year in Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) benefits to high-interest, short-term loans, tax preparation fees, and other financial products issued by commercial tax preparers. The report warns low-income families to avoid Refund Anticipation Loans whose high interest rates cause families to forfeit a significant percentage of their refunds in order to receive their money a little earlier. The report provides action items that lifts children out of poverty by helping their working families keep more of the money they've earned. -
01/01/06
Children Born Poor in 2006
Basic time stats regarding how often children are born poor in 2006 (e.g. "A child is born poor every 35 seconds") overall and broken down by race -
02/01/05
Keeping What They’ve Earned: Working Families and Tax Credits (February 2005)
"Keeping What They’ve Earned: Tax Credits for Working Families," from February 2005, reports on how low-income families lose billions each year in Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) benefits to high-interest, short-term loans, tax preparation fees, and other financial products issued by commercial tax preparers. The report warns low-income families to avoid Refund Anticipation Loans whose high interest rates cause families to forfeit a significant percentage of their refunds in order to receive their money a little earlier. The report provides action items that lifts children out of poverty by helping their working families keep more of the money they've earned. -
01/01/05
2005 State of America's Children, Chapter 1, Family Income & Jobs
"Family Income & Jobs: Raising Children Out of Poverty," Chapter 1 of the 2005 State of America's Children report. -
Keeping What They’ve Earned: Tax Credits for Working Families in Mississippi (March 2007)
"Keeping What They’ve Earned: Tax Credits for Working Families in Mississippi," from March 2007, reports on how low-income families lose billions each year in Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) benefits to high-interest, short-term loans, tax preparation fees, and other financial products issued by commercial tax preparers. The report warns low-income families to avoid Refund Anticipation Loans whose high interest rates cause families to forfeit a significant percentage of their refunds in order to receive their money a little earlier. The report provides action items that lifts children out of poverty by helping their working families keep more of the money they've earned. -
Earned Income Tax Credit Fact Sheet
A 2007 fact sheet on the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) including what the EITC is, who can get it, how much it is worth to workers, which children qualify to be claimed for it, how workers can get it, whether immigrants can receive it, whether it affects public benefits, whether workers have to wait to file their taxes to get it and where workers can get help claiming it and filing their taxes.
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