Using Data Collection to Tailor Outreach
After years of inconsistent client data, CA$H Maine, a statewide collaboration of ten coalitions devoted to helping individuals achieve financial stability, decided it needed...
Read more →This Week’s Must-Read: EITC Expansion for Childless Workers
ITIN holders may have to renew their numbers for the upcoming tax season, the Center for American Progress reports on societal benefits of an...
Read more →This Week’s Must-Read: Renewing the Debt Collection Market
An overhaul of the debt collection market is in sight and the visions of the IRS may lead to increased burdens on VITA sites.
Read more →This Week’s Must-Read: Oregon’s New Statewide Retirement Savings Plan
Oregon prepares a statewide retirement savings plan, the governor of Massachusetts reverses his support for an Airbnb tax that would expand the state’s EITC,...
Read more →This Week’s Must-Read: Tax Credit Expansion to Fight Poverty
Democratic Senators introduced legislation to fight poverty through tax credit expansion, proposed legislation aims to make child care affordable, and CFED releases a...
Read more →This Week’s Must-Read: Taxing Airbnb to Increase the EITC
Massachusetts Senate proposes bill to increase the EITC by taxing short-term rentals, the Tax Credits for Working Families explores how the EITC could make...
Read more →This Week’s Must-Read: Support for EITC Expansion
New draft of the Democratic Platform includes EITC expansion and poll finds that Americans want a president who will prioritize reducing child poverty. The 2016...
Read more →This Week’s Must-Read: What Are Americans Sacrificing to Afford Housing?
This year’s Kids Count Data Book identifies the EITC as a means of child poverty alleviation and Rhode Island’s new budget includes an increase...
Read more →This Week’s Must-Read: Changes for Upcoming Tax Season
PATH Act provision will delay tax refunds in 2017, CFED shares recommendations to improve VITA programs, and tax credits are absent from presidential campaigns.
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