{"id":14770,"date":"2021-02-16T13:37:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T18:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=14770"},"modified":"2021-02-16T13:37:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T18:37:08","slug":"hucker-moco-will-expand-its-eitc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=14770","title":{"rendered":"Hucker: MoCo Will Expand its EITC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Montgomery County Council President Tom Hucker has responded to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=14753\">our post from yesterday<\/a> asking whether the county will match the state\u2019s expansion of its earned income tax credit (EITC). The short version of Hucker\u2019s response: hell yeah!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday, Hucker wrote on Facebook:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;Will MoCo Match the State\u2019s Earned Income Tax Credit?&#8221; The answer is Yes, I believe Montgomery County will expand the County EITC to provide additional, targeted relief to our suffering working families.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I&#8217;ve asked CE Marc Elrich to add these matching county funds to the FY22 budget. And I believe my colleagues will agree. This follows the good news that the MD House Democrats improved the State relief package that our <a href=\"https:\/\/mdreliefnow.com\/\">MDReliefNow.com<\/a> coalition had advocated for by expanding the MD EITC.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The EITC is one of the most effective, targeted anti-poverty programs available to us, and expanding it during this historic recession is highly appropriate &amp; urgent.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Hucker-Facebook-2-15-21.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"679\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Hucker-Facebook-2-15-21.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Hucker-Facebook-2-15-21.png 679w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Hucker-Facebook-2-15-21-300x235.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hucker has a point on this: if the county executive puts the funding to expand the EITC in his recommended budget (due next month), it\u2019s inconceivable that the council would cut it. And Elrich was both a co-sponsor and an unwavering supporter of restoring the EITC when <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.montgomerycountymd.gov\/ccllims\/BillDetailsPage?RecordId=859\">the council passed legislation to do that in 2013<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to Tom Hucker for his advocacy on this issue and his work for <a href=\"https:\/\/mdreliefnow.com\/\">broader relief for recession-impacted Marylanders<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adam Pagnucco. Montgomery County Council President Tom Hucker has responded to our post from yesterday asking whether the county will match the state\u2019s expansion of its earned income tax credit (EITC). The short version of Hucker\u2019s response: hell yeah! Yesterday, Hucker wrote on Facebook: &#8220;Will MoCo Match the State\u2019s Earned Income Tax Credit?&#8221; The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=14770\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hucker: MoCo Will Expand its EITC<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[151,134,2306],"tags":[1545,1815,1539,781],"class_list":["post-14770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-pagnucco","category-taxes","category-tom-hucker","tag-adam-pagnucco","tag-eitc","tag-taxes","tag-tom-hucker"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-3Qe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14770"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14775,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14770\/revisions\/14775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}