BUDGET & TAX POLICY
CHILDHOOD TRAUMA
CHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTH
EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
EDUCATION REFORM
FOSTER CARE
HEALTH & DEVELOPMENT
PARENT INVOLVEMENT
WORKING FAMILIES
WORKING FAMILIES
Too many working parents struggle to meet their family's basic needs for food, housing, quality education and good health. Read a story about one Illinois family's challenges.
What Voices for Illinois Children is Doing
Voices helps lead efforts to:
- Increase the Illinois Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income, working families.
- Establish children's savings accounts to help families build assets.
- Provide paid family leave insurance so workers can afford to take time off to address significant family health needs.
What You Can Do
Contact your legislator and the Governor and tell them to increase the Illinois Earned Income Tax Credit.
You can also make a donation to Voices for Illinois children and sign up for news updates.
Learn More
- Read about a new strategy, the Fairness for Working Families Plan, from Voices' Budget & Tax Policy Initiative for improving tax fairness and generating new revenue.
- Learn how affordable access to quality child care enables families to move to economic independence through work (HB5297 Amdt. #1, SB898 Amdt. #1)
- Research shows that the quality of child care is largely determined by provider reiumbursement rates. Find out why Voices supports a 3% increase to center-based child care providers
- Read the "Illinois Kids Count 2005: Strengthening Families by Building Assets" report and view statewide and county-level data on family economic security
- Learn about the Make Work Pay coalition's work on the Illinois Earned Income Tax Credit and SB12
- Read about the Illinois Paid Leave Coalition
- Read about Children's Savings Accounts
- Learn about the Illinois Asset Building Group's work on asset-building initiatives
- See the 2008 Policy Agenda
Contact
- Director of Government Relations Sean Noble at 312-516-5556
