New state tax credit for working poor paid $601 on average, By Mara Lee, January 10, 2013, Hartford Courant: “About 13 percent of Connecticut households worked either so little, or at such low-wage work in 2011 that they were eligible for the new state Earned Income Tax Credit. The average filer’s income was $17,957, according to an analysis released Thursday by the fiscal policy center at Connecticut Voices for Children, an anti-poverty nonprofit. The state helps the working poor by paying them 30 percent of what they can claim on the federal EITC. So the average household gets $2,003 in the federal income tax credit, and $601 from Connecticut…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty