***** Please sign this petition to expand the Child Tax Credit @
http://www.halfinten.org/childtax.html *****
An email from Half in Ten:
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Take Action for Low-Income Families
Yesterday, Senator John Edwards spoke to over 1,000 young people at the Campus Progress National Conference in Washington, DC. Senator Edwards asked these 1,000 young activists to pledge their support for Half In Ten and find 10 friends to do the same. Watch him (
http://www.halfinten.org/videos/campus.html) call on these students to form the core of a movement to change this country forever. To grow this movement, we need you, too.
As we build this movement, there are specific changes that we can make today to reach our goal of reducing poverty by half in ten years. Yesterday, Senator Edwards discussed one of these: the need to expand the Child Tax Credit. Current law denies the CTC to millions of poor children and their families because they earn too little to owe federal income tax. By lowering the minimum earnings from the current $12,050 to $8,500 for 2008, families of more than 13 million children (
http://www.cbpp.org/10-24-07tax.pdf) will become newly eligible to receive the credit or receive an increased amount.
During these tough economic times, helping our lowest-income families should be a top priority. The House of Representatives has begun to address this need by approving H.R. 6049, which expands the CTC to all families who make at least $8,500 a year. But it’s looking like the Senate might not go as far as the House and would leave over 1.5 million low-income children out entirely or give their families a smaller refund.
We must all voice our support for real change to the CTC. Add your name to this petition (
http://www.halfinten.org/childtax.html) urging Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) to:
Expand the CTC to the children who need it most, allowing those families making $8,500 a year to access the credit, and
End the annual increases in required earnings that deprive low-income families and children from this needed help.
Starting today at East Harlem’s Yorkville Common Pantry, Senator Edwards is heading out on the road, learning from citizens affected by poverty, rallying with community activists, and putting pressure on elected officials. Together, we can build a movement to cut poverty in half, but we need you—educating yourself (
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/04/poverty_report.html) on the issues, bringing your friends and family into Half In Ten, and urging elected officials (
http://www.halfinten.org/childtax.html) to take action—to make the concrete changes that can pull families out of poverty.
Thanks again for your support!
The Half In Ten Team
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***** Please sign the petition here:
http://www.halfinten.org/childtax.html *****
And you can join Half in Ten @
http://www.halfinten.org/Thanks!
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