Rep. Linda Sánchez Joins Community Forum about Expiring Tax Credits for California Working Families

Rep. Linda Sánchez Joins Latino Community Forum to Discuss Expiring Tax Credits for California’s Working Families
Leaders call on Congress to make antipoverty tax credits part of business tax deals this fall

LOS ANGELES—Although the economy is improving, many of California’s working families still aren’t earning enough to meet their basic needs. In fact, more than 40 percent of Latinos nationwide earn poverty-level wages. On Wednesday, August 19, at 10:30 a.m. PDT, NCLR (National Council of La Raza) and the Mexican American Opportunity Foundation (MAOF) will host a community forum to discuss the need for Congress to protect vital refundable tax credits that lift 9.4 million Americans out of poverty each year. This fall, Congress will debate renewing or making permanent tax credits for businesses and has the opportunity to also save key provisions of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the Child Tax Credit (CTC), which collectively benefitted more than 113,000 households in California’s 38th district in 2013. Participants will discuss the impact of tax credits for working families on employment, poverty, education and family.

Media interested in attending the event should RSVP to Joe Rendeiro at jrendeiro@nclr.org or call (202) 776-1566.

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NCLR—the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States—works to improve opportunities for Hispanic Americans. For more information on NCLR, please visit www.nclr.org or follow along on Facebook and Twitter.

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