From the Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED), the Scorecard provides a comprehensive picture of wealth, poverty and the financial security of families in the United States across all 50 states and District of Columbia. CFED offers state…

In 2009, the United States ranked fourteenth in college graduation rates among industrialized countries, and this research highlights ways to improve college attendance and graduation rates at 4-year colleges. This working paper, through the…

Using a panel of 4,500 children matched to their mothers from National Longitudinal Survey of Youth datasets, authors analyze the impact of a family’s income on child achievement to understand possible causal effects an increase in family income…

The Brookings Institution authored this brief on the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) since the inception of the “EITC Movement” ten years ago. Authors review the past accomplishments of the EITC Movement and discuss how the Movement will continue…

Work supports such as the Earned Income Tax Credit, child care subsidies, and public health insurance can often help low-income working families reach self-sufficiency. Using the National Center for Children in Poverty’s Family Resource Simulator…

The Employment and Training Administration is encouraging One-Stop Career Center staff and community partners to notify customers who need help in preparing their taxes to use Free File, a service that offers free federal and state tax…

The Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings recently released a report that compared the change in geographic distribution of the low-income population to trends of the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) recipients’ location. The data used…

The Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) released a report examining the municipal governments’ new role of helping families reach economic security through wealth and asset building. The report describes five main strategies: (1)…

From the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, this news report discusses Census data that show, despite the economic recession, government efforts prevented an increase in poverty in 2009. Specifically, existing programs, such as…

This article was published by the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education. Using data from a 2008 survey data of EITC-eligible households assisted at Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) sites, authors analyze differences in…