This year, Bread for the World’s Offering of Letters urges Congress to protect and strengthen key tax credits that help low-income working families in the United States. Programs like the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the Child Tax Credit are critical to making sure that low-income working families have the resources they need to provide for their food and other basic needs.
The White House has sent its FY2011 budget request to Congress. The budget request makes permanent the expansions to the EITC and the Child Tax Credit that were included in the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. These provisions increase EITC benefits for families with three or more children and make more low-income families eligible for benefits from the Child Tax Credit. The inclusion of these provisions is a strong indication of the president’s priorities as Congress begins to consider its budget resolution.
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