Corporate Voices for Working Families has released its 2011 Employer Guide and EITC Toolkit, which provides companies with the tools to help employees take advantage of tax credits and other benefits. The guide provides detailed information about the Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, Medicaid and other benefits.
Publications and Toolkits
Family Economic Stability
Corporate Voices Issues New Report That Profiles Young Employees in Low-Income Families and Spotlights the Challenges They Face
Washington, D.C. (May 11, 2011) – In the wake of the Great Recession, young employees (ages 16-24) in low-income families continue to struggle to balance their need to work while obtaining the education they must have to succeed in today’s complex and challenging economy.
A Profile of Young Workers (16–26) in Low-Income Families
Young employees from low-income families are more likely than those from higher-income families to do less well acrossa number of metrics including completing high school, receiving postsecondary credentials, being continuously employed,and having health insurance coverage. These disparate outcomes can have lifelong consequences for both the employeesand for the social support systems that help low-income families. These data present both an immediate need and a societalopportunity.
Corporate Voices Launches Workplace Lactation Toolkit to Help Employers Support Nursing Mothers at Work
WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 21, 2011) – Corporate Voices for Working Families has published an updated version of its workplace lactation toolkit to help employers establish workplace lactation programs, comply with new provisions to the Fair Labor Standards Act passed into law with health care reform and to help employers adopt management strategies for 21st century success.
Corporate Voices Responds to Surgeon General’s “Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding”
Corporate Voices for Working Families has issued a response to the U.S. Surgeon General’s “Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding,” emphasizing the need for creating a broader awareness of the tools and resources that are available to both employers and employees to effectively support nursing mothers at work.
Corporate Voices for Working Families Releases EITC Toolkit to Help Employees Take Advantage of Tax Credits and Other Benefits
WASHINGTON, D.C. (February 8, 2011) -- Corporate Voices for Working Families, a nonprofit business membership organization in Washington, D.C., has released its 2010 Employer Guide: Educate Your Employees About the Benefits They’ve Earned. This is the eighth year that Corporate Voices has updated the Employer Guide and EITC toolkit and made it available to companies and other organizations at no cost as a way to help low-wage employees take advantage of a host of federal benefits available to them.
2010 EITC TOOLKIT (JANUARY 2011)
Corporate Voices for Working Families has released its 2010 Employer Guide, which provides companies with the tools to help employees take advantage of tax credits and other benefits. The guide provides detailed information about the Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, Medicaid and other benefits.
Corporate Voices for Working Families Releases Employer Guide to Help Employees Take Advantage of Tax Credits and Other Benefits
WASHINGTON, D.C. (February 1, 2010) -- Corporate Voices for Working Families, a nonprofit business membership organization in Washington, D.C., has released its 2009 Employer Guide: Educate Your Employees About the Benefits They’ve Earned. This is the seventh year that Corporate Voices has updated the Employer Guide and made it available to companies and other organizations as a way to help low-wage employees take advantage of a host of benefits available to them. The guide provides detailed information about the Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, Medicaid and other benefits.
2009 EITC Toolkit (January 2010)
Corporate Voices for Working Families has released its 2009 Employer Guide, which provides companies with the tools to help employees take advantage of tax credits and other benefits. The guide provides detailed information about the Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, Medicaid and other benefits.
This Employer Guide was made possible through the generous support of the Annie E. Casey, Ford and Hitachi Foundations.
The 2009 EITC Toolkit also includes:
Corporate Voices for Working Families Supports Legislation to Increase Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account Limits
Washington, DC (May 7, 2009) — Corporate Voices for Working Families (CVWF) and the American Business Collaboration (ABC) support legislation introduced today that, if passed, would make child care more affordable to working families.
Representatives John Yarmuth (D-KY), Sam Johnson (R-TX), Linda Sanchez (D-CA) and Peter Roskam (R-IL) introduced H.R. 2298 to amend the Internal Revenue Code to increase dependent care flexible spending account (DCFSA) limits.