We need your help!

MomsRising is meeting with your U.S. Senators in the coming weeks and we need to show how much moms and dads are boosted by working family tax breaks like the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit.

Why? Because unless the U.S. Congress acts soon, key provisions of the EITC and Child Tax Credit will expire, pushing nearly 16 million people—including 8 million children and many military families—into poverty and making it harder for tens of millions more families to pay their bills. We can’t allow this to happen!

Can you sign this letter to your U.S. Senators calling on them to support and strengthen the EITC and Child Tax Credit?

Here are the facts: More than 63 million families, including 1 in 4 current or former armed forces families with children, make ends meet and avoid falling into poverty by using the EITC and Child Tax Credit. This extra money helps our families make ends meet throughout the year and pay for things that otherwise might be unaffordable like a car to get to work, a place to live, shoes for our kids, and other necessities. And by making those purchases we are funneling money back into our local economy, which sorely needs it.

In short, the EITC and Child Tax Credit boosts our families and our economy.

Families like Ann’s. She shares:

“As a single parent, working to make a small business successful in a struggling economy, I can sincerely say that the EITC and Child Tax Credit are critical to me and my family. Without these tax breaks, I would be losing several thousand much needed dollars each year. What amounts to nothing more than another vacation or shopping spree for some people, is literally food, care, and other necessities for my child! We really can’t live without these tax credits. These ‘working class’ tax credits make fiscal sense in supporting those in the middle and low-income tax brackets. And as a business owner I know that in turn, the money families like mine save in the EITC and Child Tax Credit is rolled right back into supporting their local economy.”

And Rena’s, she writes:

“Every year at tax time when we get our refund and dollars from the EITC, our family gets to catch up on over due bills and buy the things we can’t normally buy the rest of the year. An example is our yearly trip to one of the bigger cities to get the whole family new shoes. The only pair we usually get each year. I feel a hard working family deserves this even if they aren’t one of the rich.”

There are millions of families like Ann and Rena’s, which is why we need YOU to speak out!

**Will you add your signature to our letter to your Senators calling on them to boost our families by supporting and strengthening the EITC and Child Tax Credit?

As moms and dads, you know how important these tax credits are to our families right now and in the future. The EITC and Child Tax Credit have been shown to improve children’s health and education outcomes, including college attendance. That’s some powerful stuff!

The EITC and the Child Tax Credit often gets lost in the mix when Congress is more focused on tax breaks for the wealthy. We need to double down on our efforts this summer so when we meet with your Senators they know moms and dads support the EITC and Child Tax Credit. After you take action, can you post our action link to Facebook and Twitter and tell your friends why you are supporting the EITC and Child Tax Credit today? http://action.momsrising.org/sign/EITC_ChildTaxCredit/

**Join me in signing on to this letter TODAY and stand up for families who are boosted by the EITC and Child Tax Credit!

Together we are a powerful voice for moms, children, and families!

P.S. Do you have experience with the EITC or Child Tax Credit? Do tell! MomsRising wants to share your story, as well as your signature, with your elected leaders. Can you share with us how the EITC and Child Tax Credit helped your family?