Twenty-three states have enacted state earned income tax credits for low- and moderate-income working families, which are based off the federal Earned Income Tax Credit. This resource from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities provides an overview of the costs related to a State Earned Income Tax Credit.

This resource is from the IRS on claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) on 2007 returns. It provides a worksheet and all relevant information on claiming the EITC.

This fact sheet from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities provides an overview of poverty in the United States. Currently, 36.5 million Americans, which is one in eight, live in poverty. Additionally, 15.4 million live in extreme poverty, which equates to income that is at less than half of the poverty threshold.

This resource is authored by the Urban Institute and provides an overview of current research on children with incarcerated parents. In the United States, 1.5 million children have one or both parents that are incarcerated. Authors offer recommendations on reducing the negative impact for children, which includes building supportive relationships with the parent and other adults.

From the National Center for Children in Poverty, this fact sheet provides demographic information on children in the United States who are considered poor based on the national poverty threshold. Between 2000 and 2006, the number of children living in poverty increased 11 percent, which equates to 13 million.

This is a series of reports from Chapin Hall, which provide evaluation information on the Prime Time Initiative. The Initiative is an effort to strengthen the quality of after-school programs in Palm Beach County, Florida through networks of providers. The goal of the Initiative is to create an integrated and sustainable system of standards, supports, and resources for all after-school programs. Reports include the evaluations from Year 2 and Year 3 of the Initiative.

Subsidies through the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) and TANF are often crucial to helping parents maintain employment and reach self-sufficiency. From the Urban Institute, this report provides an overview of research conducted on strategies that States have employed to help eligible families access subsidies. Most recently, States have been redesigning subsidy programs to support families in stable employment.

The Annie E. Casey Foundation authored this report on ways that States can strengthen workforce development programs. This report comes from information acquired from the Jobs Initiative, which was a workforce initiative in six cities around the country. The Jobs Initiative worked to build networks of local institutions, employers, and other groups to collaborate on improving workforce training delivery.

This article is from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and provides information on food security among low-income households. This research was focused on assessing the extent to which low-income households are willing and able to budget for healthy foods. It was found that households with an income below 130 percent of the poverty line spend less money than higher income households on healthy foods.

New regulations to strengthen welfare reform were published February 5, 2008 in the Federal Register. The changes to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program will help move individuals off of the welfare rolls and into the workplace by giving states the flexibility to design their own effective welfare-to-work initiatives.