Hunger at Home: Food for our Neighbors

"Offering of Letters" Campaign:

This year's Offering of Letters campaign will urge Congress to make changes in the U.S. tax code that will benefit low-income families and help them lift themselves and their children out of hunger and poverty.

• For extensive resources directly related to the Offering of Letters campaign, including posters, short promotional videos, worship aids, and letter-writing basics, see www.offeringofletters.org.
• Resources for "Offering of Letters" training workshops:
  • U.S. Fact Sheet [pdf]
  • Pennsylvania Fact Sheet [pdf]

  • EITC Summary - Earned Income Tax Credit [pdf]
    Also see basic information about filing for EITC (also known as EIC) in Pennsylvania.
  • EITC description [html] [pdf]
    with examples and detailed benefits chart (Center for Budget and Policy Priorities")
  • CTC Summary - Child Tax Credit [pdf]
  • VITA Summary - Volunteer Income Tax Assistance [pdf]
  • Pennsylvania VITA Program and complete state-wide list of VITA sites.
    In the Lehigh Valley, every year many college students go through the free IRS training to become VITA volunteers.

• View/download the report Hunger 2010: A Just and Sustainable Recovery (166 pages, with study guide).]

Other organizations with resources on related economic issues:

• Citizens for Tax Justice (www.ctj.org)
  Provides extensive information (U.S. and State) about tax policy and who benefits from current tax structures.
• United for a Fair Economy (www.faireconomy.org)
  Provides educational materials on the effects of income and wealth disparity in the U.S., as well as what constitutes a "fair" tax structure.

• Institute for Policy Studies (www.ips-dc.org)
  Underlying our Economic Crisis is a Polarization of Income and Wealth by Chuck Collins
(Jan. 24, 2008)