Michigan Dems: Restore low-income tax break, By Alanna Durkin (AP), March 3, 2013, Lansing State Journal: “Lansing taxi driver and single father Terry Beasley uses the federal and state earned-income tax credit to supplement the $12,000 he brings home every year, pay off bills and buy new clothes for his son. ‘It’s going to mean I’m going to have a whole lot less money and be a lot poorer,’ he said. About 800,000 low-income Michigan families, who qualify for the state’s earned income tax credit like Beasley, will bring home less money this year due to a reduction in the state’s earned-income tax credit to 6 percent from 20 percent of the similar federal credit, part of sweeping tax changes Republican Gov. Rick Snyder signed in 2011…”
Day: March 4, 2013
GED Testing Changes
- Some fear new, high-tech GED a problem for low-income test takers, By James Fuller, March 4, 2013, Daily Herald: “The people who benefit the most by earning their GED will soon have the toughest time even getting access to the high school graduation equivalency credential, according to local test providers…”
- Getting a GED? Changes putting everyone to the test, By Marquita Brown, March 2, 2013, Jackson Clarion-Ledger: “The almost 19,000 people enrolled in adult education classes across the state will need to pass all five sections of the GED test by Dec. 31 or have to start from scratch. The current version of the General Education Development test, developed by Washington, D.C.-based GED Testing Service as a high school equivalency exam, expires at the end of the year. And so will the scores of those who have passed some but not all sections of the test by that time. But many of the students lack the literacy skills needed to pass. And limited dollars further compounds the problem of providing remediation. GED Testing Service also is raising the cost to take the test from $75 to $120…”