Tuesday, May 24, 2011

1. Big Idea - VITA and Earned Income Tax Credit


I've been thinking quite a bit about the economy and how families are coping with lower incomes. I briefly looked at demographic information that the Brookings Institute makes available http://www.brookings.edu/metro/EITC/EITC-Data.aspx and used some basic comparison to the numbers here http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/_national/stress_index/

To me it seems like there are some ways of acutely addressing the crisis with existing federal programs such as EITC. I have been doing some brainstorming and want to inform myself further about current efforts, strategies and outcomes to see if I could identify some of the barriers, if any, and pathways for participation in the program. 

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