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Dr. Ronald Mincy on HW Radio Podcast with Danny Tisdale for Black History Month Special

Listen to Dr. Ronald Mincy on HW Radio Podcast and host Danny Tisdale as they discuss the impact and policy implications for the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for Harlem parents after Dr. Mincy’s presentation in Harlem at the Abyssinian Baptist Church last week. Continue reading

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Last Minute Tax Tips From Congressman Rangel

Just off the wire. Here’s the Congressman’s Rangel’s  tax tips as we head into the tax deadline on April 18th, 2011. Continue reading

Earned Income Tax Credit for Harlemites

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Congressman Charles B. Rangel, City Council members Inez E. Dickens, Robert Jackson, Melissa Mark-Viverito and Ydanis Rodriguez and New York Assemblymen Adriano Espaillat, Danny O’Donnell and Keith LT Wright were among the several elected leaders Friday that urged New Yorkers not to let a moment go by without claiming every single tax benefit that their hard work had entitled them to on their 2009 taxes — especially the Earned Income Tax Credit.

Sponsored by Congressman Rangel and passed in 1975 on a bipartisan basis, the EITC is the federal government’s largest benefits program for working families and one of the nation’s most powerful anti-poverty programs.

“It’s hard to believe, but each year, millions of Americans — an estimated 5-7 million nationwide and close to 20,000 in Northern Manhattan alone — miss out on getting money that they are entitled to,” said Rangel, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and Dean of the New York Congressional delegation. Continue reading