Boost working families this Tax Day!

Today is Tax Day!!

This is the perfect opportunity to send a strong message to the U.S. Congress telling them that our tax system should not only help boost low-income workers and our families but also guarantee that no American is taxed into poverty.

There are key changes Congress can make that will help families by expanding the Child Tax Credit (CTC) and Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit (CDCTC) so we can help care for our youngest children, as well as expand the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for low-wage working childless adults, like moms and dads of adult children and grandparents who are still in the workforce. Bonus: these proposals have received bipartisan support in the past and would pump more money into our economy (when workers have more money, they spend it!)!

We need you to speak out! Write your members of Congress TODAY and tell them “Help boost working families and our economy this Tax Day!”

Dear Member of Congress,

This Tax Day, I ask that you make concerted efforts to boost low-wage workers and families and guarantee that no American is taxed into poverty.

Congress has made huge strides in the past year to support working families by making permanent key provisions to the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit (CTC). This alone has lifted 16 million people, including 8 million children, out of poverty or closer to the poverty line.

But there is still work to be done!

I ask that you and your colleagues support and pass tax provisions that will boost struggling Americans trying to make ends meet by:

Expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for low-wage working childless adults;
Doubling (increasing the amount to $2,000/child) the Child Tax Credit for children under the age of six;
Tripling the maximum Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit (CDCTC) for families with children under 5, making the full CDCTC available to families with incomes of up to $120,000, and guaranteeing it is refundable.

These fixes to our tax code have garnered bipartisan support in the past. Expanding the EITC for childless adults would help low-wage parents of adult children and grandparents continue to contribute to their families, and lift up young adults who are just starting out in the workforce and may someday become parents themselves. In addition, these key changes to the CTC and CDCTC would support working parents better afford childcare, food, diapers, medicine, transportation, and housing for their families—necessities that have a high cost but are essential to a family’s well-being.

Thank you for standing with me and hard-working Americans this Tax Day!

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