SIGN OUR LETTER NOW calling on your members of Congress to include an
increase and expansion of the EITC and Child Tax Credit in the COVID
package⎯ and pass a permanent expansion of these working family tax
credits this year!
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Dear Friend,
I don’t need to tell you that our families are struggling. Everything is
harder in a pandemic—affording rent, paying our bills, putting food on the
table, affording childcare, and trying to do our jobs.
This is why we need real solutions that put real money in the pockets of
struggling families.
Luckily there is an answer already working its way through the U.S.
Congress: Expanding and increasing working family tax credits like the
Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit (CTC).
[ [link removed] ]***SIGN OUR LETTER NOW calling on your members of Congress to include
an increase and expansion of the EITC and Child Tax Credit in the COVID
package ⎯ and pass a permanent expansion of these working family tax
credits this year!
Here’s what’s happening right now: This week, the House of Representatives
is considering President Biden’s COVID-relief package, the American Rescue
Plan, and in this bill they include a temporary expansion of the EITC and
Child Tax Credit. People who have lower incomes, are Black or Latino, have
less than a college education, or work in face-to-face service occupations
have long faced unfair barriers to high-paying jobs and opportunity due to
structural inequality, which the pandemic and its economic fallout have
increased.
The COVID-relief bill that is moving through the U.S. House and Senate
makes the full Child Tax Credit available to all children except those
with the highest incomes (sometimes called making the credit “fully
refundable”), and makes an expanded EITC available to far more low-paid
childless workers—the majority of which are women who are still helping
support their families and grandchildren but are taxed into poverty year
after year. [1] If we are able to get this passed in the COVID package it
would result in historic reductions of child poverty and provide timely
support for millions of people, including millions of essential workers.
[ [link removed] ]We can make this happen in the next few weeks — we just need you to
keep speaking out!
***Add your name to our letter calling on Congress to make sure increases
and expansions of the EITC and Child Tax Credit are included in the next
COVID package!
But we can’t stop there because the COVID package only includes a one-year
expansion of the EITC and CTC. We must also urge Congress to make these
improvements permanent.
Expanding the EITC and CTC permanently will go a long way to pulling
millions of families out of poverty and closing the women’s income
inequality gap, especially among Black and Brown women due to structural
racism. In fact, just expanding the Child Tax Credit and making it fully
refundable, particularly making the payments monthly as is proposed, would
reduce financial hardship and racial income disparities while also
stimulating the economy.[2] One of the major strengths of these policies
is how much they lift up women of color who are facing structural
inequality, including 3.4 million Latinas, 2 million Black women, among
many others. When you combine that with the changes being proposed to the
EITC, we are talking about a massive anti-poverty program that would put
historic levels of much needed cash into the hands of women, especially
women of color. Not to mention, the boost in income provided by the EITC
and CTC improves health and educational outcomes for women and their
children. Research shows that the added income from tax credits makes the
biggest difference to the youngest and poorest children. [ [link removed] ]
Who doesn’t want that!?
[3]***Let your U.S. Senators and Representative know that the EITC and
Child Tax Credit are a lifeline for millions of families and we expect
them to pass both immediate relief in the COVID package and a permanent
expansion of these working family tax credits later this year!
We’ve heard from you so much over the years about how important the EITC
and Child Tax Credit is to your family. Imagine getting a monthly bonus in
your CTC for children under the age of 6 or being able to access the EITC
if you are a younger or older low-wage worker without children living in
your home or finally getting the full credit regardless of your income? It
would be a big deal for your family right? That’s why we need you to
[ [link removed] ]sign our letter and share this email with your friends and family so
they can take action now! This is the type of tax policy we want Congress
to be working on, not tax credits for the super wealthy and
mega-corporations!
Thank you for taking action and speaking out for all our families!
-Elyssa, Donna, Kristin, and the entire MomsRising.org/MamásConPoder Team
P.S. Your stories really make a difference in this fight! I was just
talking to our key tax champions in the Senate the other day and they
specifically asked for stories from moms, parents, and caretakers on how
the EITC and Child Tax Credit boosts their families. [ [link removed] ]Can you share your
story with us?
[1] [ [link removed] ]Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. “House Ways and Means COVID
Relief Bill Includes Critical Expansions of Child Tax Credit and EITC.”
February 9, 2021.
[2] [ [link removed] ]Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. “Making Child Tax Credit
Fully Available Would Benefit 6 Million Women of Color.” July 16, 2020.
[3] [ [link removed] ]National Women’s Law Center. “Expanding Refundable Tax Credits in
Response to COVID-19.” December 3, 2020.
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