This bulletin reviews a microenterprise development organization in California. This company provides tax preparation in an effort to build assets for the low-income population through the Earned Income Tax Credit.

This article provides information to states to estimate the cost of a Federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC).

This article, through the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, reviews the impact of state run Earned Income Tax Credit programs. Currently, the federal EITC lifts more than 4 million people out of poverty a year, and a state EITC can also help alleviate poverty and economic hardship. Although 19 states have enacted EITCs, this resource provides evidence to why the EITC is necessary in across the country.

Since the inception of the Federal EITC, a rising number of States have provided their own State EITCs for working families. States that enact EITCs can reduce child poverty, increase effective wages, and cut taxes for low-income working families. This article from the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities offers reasons why States should considered implementing State EITC programs.

From the Urban Institute, this article reviews State tax policy in times of recession. Often times, tax increases carries a higher tax burden for low-income working families. However, low-income families can be protected from increases through the use of state earned income tax credits. In this policy brief, authors outline state tax changes that affected low-income families in the past four years.

In a joint effort between the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) and the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), a guidebook called "Supporting Families in Transition: A Guide to Expanding Health Coverage in the Post-Welfare Reform World" was produced for States. The purpose of the guidebook is to help ensure that people diverted from or moving off cash assistance, and working families who may not realize they are eligible, get Medicaid benefits. The guide has been provided to State Medicaid and TANF Directors and is currently available on ACF's Web site.

This report by the Commonwealth Fund presents brief descriptions of State and local initiatives to expand health coverage for uninsured working people and their families.

This issue brief examines changes to prescription drug benefit coverage in large employer plans and implications for a Medicare prescription drug benefit. The brief is available on the National Health Policy Forum's Web site.

This report, co-authored by Mathematica Policy Research and the Urban Institute, reviews findings from the congressionally mandated evaluation funded by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE). The study focused on State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) programs in ten States around the country by drawing on case studies and surveys of SCHIP recipients.

This report is an evaluation of grantees receiving the State Covering Kids and Families (CKF) grant. This grant sought to make State Medicaid and SCHIP policies and procedures more user-friendly for low-income families, including eligibility, retention, enrollment and coordination. This article reviews the policy changes that resulted from grants in the eyes of the State officials.