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GOP Eyes Food Stamp Cuts To Avoid Big Military Cutback

Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Food Stamp Cuts, Video, Food Stamps, House GOP, Budget Cuts, Food Stamp, Child Tax Credit, Supercommittee, Politics News

By ANDREW TAYLOR, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- Republicans controlling the House are eying big cuts to food stamps as they piece together leg...

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Why She Doesn't Pay Taxes

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Child Tax Credit, Harlem, Tax Day 2012, Video, Earned Income Tax Credit, Money News

Expecting a long wait and a large tax bill, Sonia Figueroa walked into the New York Food Pantry's temporary tax preparation site in West Harlem with a...

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GOP Is Looking To Deny Child Tax Break For Undocumented Immigrants

AP | By ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Latinos, Child Tax Break, Video, Undocumented Immigrants, Child Tax Credit, Tax Refund Checks, Gop, Child Tax Credit Undocumented Immigrants, Immigrants, Hispanics, Latino Prosperity, Republicans, Latino Voices News

WASHINGTON -- Republicans are looking to deny child tax credits to undocumented immigrants – refund checks averaging $1,800 – in an effort that ha...

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Reid Hits Back Against GOP Measure Targeting Marginalized Group

Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Payroll Tax Cut Extension, Video, Undocumented Immigrants, Payroll Tax Cut, Illegal Immigration, Dick Durbin, Child Tax Credit, Harry Reid, Child Tax Credit Undocumented Immigrants, Immigration, Claire McCaskill, Undocumented, Payroll Tax, Politics News

By ANDREW TAYLOR, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- Republicans are looking to deny child tax credits to undocumented immigrants--refund checks av...

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Credit for a Mini Fire Engine

Jorge-Mario Cabrera | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Child Tax Credit, Republicans Immigration, Payroll Taxes, Income Taxes, Undocumented Immigrants, Payroll Tax Cut, Itin, Los Angeles News

Congress moving forward with a proposal to restrict the Child Tax Credit refund to taxpayers who have a SSN will have the most devastating impact on children.

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Raising Taxes On Our Nation's Most Vulnerable Children?

Bruce Lesley | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Child Tax Credit, Tax Cuts, Tax Increases, Politics News

The Child Tax Credit was designed to help working parents manage the high costs of raising children. And it does just that, partially offsetting payroll taxes for parents to make it easier for them to meet their family's basic needs.

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House Republicans: Gambling With Millions of Lives

Deborah Weinstein | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Working Poor, Payroll Tax Cut Extension, Child Tax Credit, Long-Term Unemployment, Payroll Tax Cut, We Are the 99 Percent, Unemployment Insurance, Jobs, Top 1 Percent, Payroll Tax, Politics News

When the House Republicans blew up a bipartisan Senate plan to continue unemployment insurance and the payroll tax cut for two months, they made it clear that they were willing to use the 99 percent as bargaining chips in their fight to protect the top 1 percent.

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What Congress -- And All of Us -- Could Learn From Tim

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Child Tax Credit, Child Poverty, Wealth Disparity America, Poor Children, Child-Homelessness, Wealth Disparity, Politics News

Too many of those playing a partisan game of chicken are turning a deaf ear and cold eye to child suffering. It is time to let them hear from us with our voices and votes.

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Save the Child Tax Credit for Hardworking Families

Eric Rodriguez | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Latinos, Child Tax Credit, National Council of La Raza, HR 3630, Latino Politics, Nclr, Children, Latino Voices News

NCLR urges Congress to pass an extension of the payroll tax cut that is fair and does not harm hardworking immigrants and their families.

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Nearly Half of Americans Exempt From Federal Income Tax

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Taxes, Working Poor, Income Tax, Federal Income Tax, Hints, Bruce Bartlett, Tax Policy Center, Lucky Duckies, Child Tax Credit, Nonpayers, Farhad Majoo, Republicans, Business News

Nearly half of American tax filers will pay no federal income taxes this year, according to data released by the Tax Policy Center. Some 76 million...

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New Tax Cut Package: See The Bill's Biggest Cuts

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marriage Penalty Relief, Biggest Tax Breaks, Middle Class Tax Cuts, Child Tax Credit, Capital Gains, Obama Tax Cuts 2010, Obama Tax Cuts, Tax Cuts 2011, Dividend Taxes, Tax Code, Tax Cut Package, Business News

Highlights of the tax package passed by Congress late Thursday and sent to President Barack Obama. It would cost about $858 billion; most provisions, ...

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The Economy -- and the Unemployed -- Held Hostage

Deborah Weinstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Because Congress failed to act in November to continue the federal emergency Unemployment Insurance program, two million unemployed workers are expect...

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The Politics of Hunger: An Interview with World Food Prize winner David Beckmann

Christine A. Scheller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Exodus From Hunger, Child Tax Credit, Bread for the World, Earned Income Tax Credit, Hunger, Poverty, Child Nutrition Act, Beckmann Anti-Hunger, Religion News, Poverty David Beckman, Anti-Hunger Beckmann, Global Hunger, David Beckmann Poverty, ONE Campaign, David Beckman Hunger, World Hunger, Religion News

God is calling us to change the politics of hunger because the need is especially great right now. But the opportunities are also very clear. We can do a lot, but we can't food bank our way to the end of hunger.

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Know When to Claim Tax Credits, Deductions

Jason Alderman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Elderly and Disabled Credit, Itemized Deductions, Non-Refundable Tax Credits, Adoption Credit, Lifetime Learning Credit, Child Tax Credit, Refundable Tax Credits, Earned Income Credit, Standard Deduction, Tax Credits, Tax Deductions, American Opportunity Tax Credit, Healthy Living News

As our federal tax code gets more and more complex, it can be challenging to navigate through all of the ways you can save money by lowering your inco...

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Don't Let Rush Limbaugh Write The Economic Recovery Package

Bertha Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Child Tax Credit, Economic Recovery Package, Economic Recovery, Bertha Lewis, Acorn, Food Stamps, Job Creation, Obama Economic Recovery Plan, Progressives, Politics News

It is absurd that people like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are controlling the terms of debate for a package they will never support anyway.

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Peaceful Revolution: Congress: Include Unemployment Insurance Modernization Act in the Recovery Package!

Elizabeth Lower-Basch | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Women, Unemployed Workers, Jobs, Eligibility, Parenting, Unemployment Insurance Modernization Act, Mom's Rising, UI Benefits, Part-Time Workers, Unemployed, Full-Time Workers, Unemployment, Middle Class Families, Child Tax Credit, Unemployment Insurance Benefits, Domestic Violence, Mandatory Job Transfer, Healthy Living News

Astonishingly enough, what the government often does is give breaks to everyone except the people who need them the most. Less than 40 percent of unemployed workers receive UI benefits.

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