Adult Formation Comprehensive Message

Message from Cathedral’s Social Justice Committee regarding important opportunity to assist low income families
Our country is focused on taxes this week, so let’s make sure that when Congress works on tax policy, the needs of low-income people aren’t forgotten.
The EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT is America’s largest anti-poverty program. In 2009, this tax credit lifted 6.6 million people — including 3.3 million children — above the poverty line (which is $21,756 for a family of four).
ACTION NEEDED:
Please call Senator Lamar Alexander (a member of the Senate Budget Committee). Call 1-800-826-3688 by 5 p.m., Friday, April 16, and ask to be connected with Senator Alexander’s office. Urge him to protect and strengthen key tax credits — the EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT (EITC) AND THE CHILD TAX CREDIT These tax credits make a big difference for low-income workers and their families.
You can add the following points to your message:
• The EITC and CTC are critical to helping working families make ends meet and feed their families. The costs of basic needs have risen while wages have remained largely stagnant.
• If Congress does not act to extend the most recent expansions to the EITC and CTC made in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009:
o 7 million low-income people could lose EITC benefits
o 6 million children will lose the CTC benefit completely, and 10 million children will receive a smaller credit
o More than 1.5 million people -- including nearly 800,000 children -- will fall back into poverty.

RCIA, Why Catholic, Adult Formation, and Young Adults

Subscribe to Adult Formation Comprehensive: