Earned Income Credit

Action Alert

Email your State Representative Now!

January 16, 2008

An important measure that would provide direct assistance to Pennsylvania low-income working families will soon come up for a vote in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (as early as today). HB 377 would establish a state Earned Income Credit to complement the Commonwealth's existing Tax Forgiveness program. Together, these programs would help to reward work and help lift low-income working families out of poverty.

Please send an email message to your State Representative as soon as possible. It takes less than five minutes using a process on the Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children website.

Please click here to send a note to your legislator supporting HB 377.

The House is scheduled to consider HB377 this week, so please take action now!

Please click here for more information in the related LAMPa Actionet Action Alert and/or contact the LAMPa office at 717-545-3500 or lampa@lamp.org.

If you have time for an additional action(s), please call your State Representative's Harrisburg office and/or district office requesting her/his support of HB 377 to establish a state Earned Income Credit and to reject all amendments, except the proposal to phase in the proposal. Please click here to go to the LAMPa website home page (see "Find Your Elected Officials" box) to find contact information for your state representative.

**Please file a post-advocacy action report with the LAMPa office at lampa@lamp.org, including a summary of any advocacy you do on this issue.**

“Poverty is a problem of the whole human community, not only of those who are poor and vulnerable... In light of this reality, we commit ourselves as a church and urge members to give more to relieve conditions of poverty, and invest more in initiatives to reduce poverty...[Moreover], we call for tax credits and other means of supplementing the insufficient income of low-paid workers in order to move them out of poverty.” ELCA Social Statement on Economic Life...Sufficient, Sustainable Livelihood for All (1999)