Low-income taxpayers could lose N.C. credit, By John Frank, February 15, 2013, Charlotte Observer: “Lawmakers appear unwilling to extend a tax break for low-income workers, in what critics are calling the third strike against the state’s least fortunate in the first 10 days of the legislative session. More than 900,000 low- and moderate-income taxpayers received the modest tax break last year under the state’s earned income tax credit or EITC. The state credit was established in 2007, but it is scheduled to expire at the end of 2013 unless legislators act to extend it…”