[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 43 (Tuesday, April 19, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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[Congressional Record: April 19, 1994]
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            CHICAGO PARTNERSHIP FOR THE EARNED INCOME CREDIT

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                           HON. BOBBY L. RUSH

                              of illinois

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, April 19, 1994

  Mr. RUSH. Mr. Speaker, it is with great pleasure that I come before 
my colleagues today to offer my sincerest thanks to a very special 
group of Chicago businesses and community organizations who have joined 
me in an important venture to let citizens in the Chicagoland area know 
how to apply for the Federal earned income tax credit.
  The earned income tax credit rewards working families who have found 
it increasingly difficult to take care of their children at home while 
working. This credit may be worth up to $2,364 for families with one or 
more children. In an effort to let low-income working families know 
about this important credit, the Chicago partnership for the earned 
income credit was formed. Through a series of mass mailings to Chicago 
families, and in conjunction with television and radio PSAs, billboards 
on public buses, and a press conference with Vice-President Gore, word 
was sent out to thousands of eligible families about how to apply for 
the earned income tax credit. It is expected that over 100,000 low-
income families will apply for the credit and receive, on average, a 
credit of $1000 in 1994.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask for my colleagues to join with me in thanking 
Ameritech; Arthur Andersen; Commonwealth Edison; the Community Currency 
Exchange Association; the First Chicago Bank; Jewel-Osco; the Chicago 
Business Women's Association and H.A. King & Associates; the Chicago 
Transit Authority; the Chicago Urban League; the Chicagoland Chamber of 
Commerce; the Illinois CPA Society; Peoples Gas Light and Coke Company; 
the Illinois Restaurant Association; Dominick Finer Foods; Fleishman-
Hillard; Highland Community Bank; Gleeson, Sklar & Sawyers; the City of 
Chicago; and the IRS for their outstanding contribution in this effort 
to reward working families in Chicago.

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