Earned Income Tax Credit – Pennsylvania

Dismay as Corbett ends funding for tax-credit program for low-income families, By Alfred Lubrano, August 15, 2012, Philadelphia Inquirer: “The Corbett administration has stopped funding a program that helped low-income working people get federal tax credits that kept them out of poverty. The program, administered by the Department of Public Welfare for just over $500,000, also helped pay for low-income workers to have their taxes prepared free, which saves people at or below the poverty line hundreds of dollars, advocates say. The cut echoes growing concerns among Republicans in Congress about the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and other similar measures, seen as too much government in a time of financial crisis. That would be a reversal of decades of bipartisan support for the tax credit, once called ‘the best antipoverty program in America’ by President Ronald Reagan…”