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Income and Taxes

Comments to the IRS Opposing Changes to Tax Credit Eligibility

October 6, 2026

Comments to the IRS Opposing Changes to Tax Credit Eligibility

October 6, 2026

Data Snapshot: Financial Well-Being Among Families with Young Children

October 6, 2026

New Census Data Shows Federal Policy Can Reduce Child Poverty, but Families Face Rising Costs and Cuts to the Safety Net

September 28, 2026

States Must Support Families’ Wellbeing and Address Looming Fiscal Crises

September 28, 2026

Co-Enrollment in Safety-Net Programs Among Families with Young Children: A Multistate Analysis of Enrollment Gaps, Design and Implementation

August 12, 2026

Parent Perspectives on the Child Tax Credit

August 6, 2026

“I’m Doing My Part, Why Aren’t You Doing Yours?”: A Qualitative Exploration of the Expanded Child Tax Credit Among Mothers with Young Children

August 6, 2026

Written testimony in support of An Act significantly alleviating poverty (H.5085/S.3095)

July 14, 2026

Re: PUBLIC NOTICE: Termination of MassHealth’s “TANF and EAEDC Recipients” 1115 Demonstration Expenditure Authority and the Transition and Phase-Out Plan

July 6, 2026

Oral Testimony in Support of H.5085/S.3095: An Act significantly alleviating poverty

July 1, 2026

Letter to the Massachusetts Budget Conference Committee

June 18, 2026

Healthy Families Tax Credits Coalition FY27 Letter to the Conference Committee

June 12, 2026

Letter to the Senate Labor and Industry Committee in Support of the Family Care Act (SB906)

June 10, 2026

Social media tax would confirm Minnesota’s priorities

May 14, 2026

Healthy Families Tax Credits Coalition FY27 MA State Budget Letter

April 3, 2026

Massachusetts Budget Briefing: Expanding Access to Refundable Tax Credits

March 25, 2026

Testimony in Support of MA Bills H.48 and H.1158/S.737

December 24, 2025

Paid Family Leave: Setting Families Up for Success

December 9, 2025

Cuts to safety net programs will hurt the youngest Minnesotans

November 18, 2025

Statement Celebrating the Creation of Working Pennsylvanians Tax Credit

November 17, 2025

Statement on Congressional Failure to Extend Health Care Subsidies for 22 Million People

November 14, 2025

Statement on US Government Shutdown

October 1, 2025

Testimony in support of legislation to strengthen Massachusetts family tax credits

September 19, 2025

Oral Testimony to the MA Committee on Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities in Support of Bills to Lift Kids Out of Deep Poverty

September 16, 2025

Oral testimony to the MA Committee on Revenue in support of legislation to strengthen family tax credits

September 16, 2025

Statement on 2024 Supplemental Poverty Measure Report

September 10, 2025

Amid Threats to the Safety Net, Advance Child Tax Credit Payments Are a Win for Minnesota Families

August 26, 2025

To help low-income kids with cancer have better treatment outcomes, a researcher tries a different innovation: Cash

August 18, 2025

Letter to the MA Administration Regarding VITA Funding in Fiscal Year 26

July 28, 2025

The Dignity Dividend: Lessons Learned from Guaranteed Income Pilots in Massachusetts

July 24, 2025

Expanded Child Tax Credit, Family Health, and Material Hardships

July 7, 2025

Comments on H.4144, An Act Relative to Energy Affordability, Independence, and Innovation

July 7, 2025

Statement on the Reconciliation Bill Passed by Congress

July 3, 2025

Child Tax Credit Increased Food Security, Stable Housing among Young Children, but Many Eligible Families Didn’t

July 2, 2025

Statement on the Senate-Passed Reconciliation Bill

July 1, 2025

Letter to Conference Committee Regarding VITA Funding in Fiscal Year 26 Budget Negotiations

June 11, 2025

Why Massachusetts women have fewer children and Trump’s $5,000 ‘baby bonus’ won’t help

May 13, 2025

Statement on Ending Direct File

April 30, 2025

As the 2025 Tax Season Ends, Volunteers Show There is No Tax Equity Without VITA

April 22, 2025

Statement on IRS-DHS Information Sharing Agreement

April 15, 2025

Advocates look to expand tax credits for low-income immigrant families

April 1, 2025

Massachusetts State House Briefing

April 1, 2025

Comments to the House Ways and Means Committee on the Need to Expand Family Tax Credits

January 29, 2025

Lessons from the Field: Learning from Community Members about Effective Ways to Organize

January 16, 2025

How Mass Deportations Will Separate American Families, Harm Our Armed Forces, and Devastate Our Economy: Statement to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary

January 6, 2025

Children’s HealthWatch To Manage FindYourFunds with Support from the Shah Family Foundation

December 13, 2024

Safeguarding Benefits: Addressing Barriers in Direct Cash and Tax Credit Delivery

November 26, 2024

Statement on the 2024 Election

November 7, 2024

Letter to the House Ways and Means Tax Team: Earned Income Tax Credit

October 21, 2024

Letter to the House Ways and Means Tax Team: Child Tax Credit

October 21, 2024

Letter to the MA Poverty Commission on Policies that Support Children and Families

October 11, 2024

With child poverty on the rise, 2025 offers a key opportunity to expand the Child Tax Credit

September 12, 2024

Statement on Changes to EA Shelter in Massachusetts

August 9, 2024

Senate Fails to Advance Bipartisan Tax Bill

August 5, 2024

Submitted Comments – U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) Draft Recommendation Statement on Food Insecurity: Screening

July 26, 2024

Children’s HealthWatch FY25 Conference Committee Letter

July 16, 2024

Advance Child Tax Credit Supported Families Experiencing Economic Shocks

May 31, 2024

Diagnosing the youth mental health crisis? Don’t forget housing and extreme heat

April 29, 2024

Healthy Families Tax Credits Coalition Sends Massachusetts Senate Letter with 105 Organizations to Support Tax Equity

April 9, 2024

Immigrant Advocates Call For Tax Credit Equity

March 15, 2024

In Hospitals, Affordable Housing Gets the Long-Term Investor It Needs

March 15, 2024

Association between Child Tax Credit advance payments and food insufficiency in households experiencing economic shocks

February 29, 2024

Permanently Expanding the Child Tax Credit Can Make Generational Change

February 13, 2024

Mid-year budget cuts prevent planned increase to MA cash assistance

January 31, 2024

Children’s HealthWatch Statement on Child Tax Credit Agreement

January 17, 2024

2023 Year in Review

December 21, 2023

Remarks from Gloria Cabrera on the impact of expanded family tax credits during the Healthy Families Tax Credits Coalition celebratory event November 8, 2023

November 8, 2023

Governor Healey Signs First Tax Cuts in More Than 20 Years

October 4, 2023

Children’s HealthWatch Statement on Child Poverty & Averting a Government Shutdown

September 29, 2023

Testimony in support of An Act establishing basic needs assistance for Massachusetts immigrant residents and An Act to lift kids out of deep poverty

September 25, 2023

We cut child poverty to historic lows, then let it rebound faster than ever before

September 21, 2023

This Republican senator wants an expanded child tax credit — with work requirements

September 20, 2023

Without Expanded Child Tax Credit, Families Are Sliding Back Into Poverty

September 14, 2023

‘Policymakers need to do their job too’: Pediatrician’s view on child poverty rate

September 14, 2023

Children’s HealthWatch Submits a Letter In Opposition of Cutting Arkansas’ Income and Corporate Tax (HB1007)

September 12, 2023

Expanding tax credit will make Massachusetts a leader in family policy again

September 5, 2023

Massachusetts FY2024 budget makes key investments in children and families

August 29, 2023

New Poll Shows 77% of Massachusetts Residents Support $600 Child & Family Tax Credit

August 23, 2023

Letter: Massachusetts lawmakers must look beyond interests of wealthy by including $600 Child and Family Tax Credit

August 11, 2023

MA Lawmakers Work to Enhance Tax Credits for Working Families

August 7, 2023

Child Tax Credit anniversary: Bittersweet milestone for the anti-poverty movement

July 27, 2023

More than 100 state and local organizations call on elected officials to pass a $600 Child and Family Tax Credit

July 21, 2023

Mass. lawmakers, pass House’s more generous Child and Family Tax Credit

July 13, 2023

Advocates Push for ‘Tax Fairness’ with Expanded Child Tax Credits

June 5, 2023

Children’s HealthWatch Statement on the Minnesota Child Tax Credit

May 31, 2023

Families facing poverty should not be hostages of a debt limit accord

May 24, 2023

Healthy Families Tax Credits Coalition Statement on MA House tax relief package

April 13, 2023

Mass. coalition relaunches push to raise earned income tax credit

March 30, 2023

Coalition puts tax breaks for low-income workers on table

February 9, 2023

Children’s HealthWatch Launches Healthy Families Tax Credits Coalition Campaign

February 1, 2023

Financial Coaching Offers New Paths To A Healthy Future

November 9, 2022

Tightening abortion laws reignite conversation around a permanent Child Tax Credit

November 4, 2022

The Healthy Families EITC Coalition is Deeply Disappointed that Permanent Tax Relief for Families with Low Incomes has Been Removed from Final Economic Development Legislation

November 4, 2022

Loss of Child Tax Credit Advance Payments Tied to Higher Food Insecurity

October 28, 2022

Food insufficiency increased in US households by 25% after expiration of Child Tax Credit payments

October 25, 2022

US Food Insufficiency Spiked by 25% After Monthly Child Tax Credits Expired

October 24, 2022

US food insufficiency surged by 25 percent after end of child tax credits: analysis

October 24, 2022

U.S. Child Hunger Spiked in Weeks After Child Tax Credits Repealed

October 24, 2022

Ensuring food security and health beyond the Covid-19 public health emergency

October 24, 2022

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