Financial Literacy / Asset Building Content Topic Results
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Special Collection
Special Collection
February 2024
Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Other Tax Credits
This collection highlights key resources for the EITC, the Child Tax Credit, Health Coverage Tax Credits, and others, highlighting resources specific to domestic violence survivors and advocates working with survivors.
Special Collection
March 2016
Building Credit and Assets: Helping Survivors Recover from Economic Abuse
This special collection explores credit, asset building, and Individual Development Accounts (IDAs), their intersections, and how they can be leveraged to better support economic justice for survivors of domestic violence.
Special Collection
December 2015
Employment and Domestic Violence
This collection includes key documents on DV as a barrier to work, DV in the workplace, employment discrimination, employment leave, job training, living wage, media messaging, minimum wage, and unemployment.
Special Collection
July 2010
Housing and Sexual Violence
This collection includes resources to assist communities in developing more effective strategies to address the multi-layered and complex relationship between sexual violence and housing.
Special Collection
May 2009
Poverty and Domestic Violence
This collection emphasizes key documents on children and poverty, how poverty is measured, the intersection of domestic violence and poverty, and media messaging.
Special Collection
January 2006
Welfare and Domestic Violence
This collection includes materials related to welfare, now known as the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), with a particular focus on the Family Violence Option and related provisions and their implementation at the federal and state level.
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- General Material
January 2024
2024 Get It Back Toolkit: Earned Income Tax Credit & Child Tax Credit
Publisher(s):The Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit are important tax benefits that can help provide tax filers a significant income boost. This toolkit includes messaging and materials to help you spread the word about the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit and how to get them.
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- General Material
October 2023
Adoption Tax Credit FAQs
Publisher(s):This webpage provides basic information about adoption tax benefits.
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- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
June 2023
Pay Equity and a Thriving Wage: All individuals deserve to be valued for their labor
Publisher(s): Leading with the shared vision that “All families deserve living conditions in which they can thrive,” this graphic illustration utilizes NRCDV’s Storytelling Framework to center survivors of color for whom economic insecurity poses significant barriers to safety and well-being. This resource makes the case for wage equity as a critical pathway to intimate partner violence prevention, and can be used with a variety of audiences as a tool to move people to action.
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- General Material
April 2023
Policy Basics: The Earned Income Tax Credit
Publisher(s):This page from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities provides background information on the EITC, including who is eligible and work incentive features.
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- General Material
December 2022
Policy Basics: The Child Tax Credit
Publisher(s):This page for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities provides basic details about the CTC, including refundability and the value of the credit.
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- General Material
August 2022
Support Every Survivor: How Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality, and Disability Shape Survivors’ Experiences and Needs
Publisher(s): In November 2020, FreeFrom launched the second round of their Safety Fund and prioritized distributing grants to queer, trans, Black, Indigenous and Latinx survivors. This report details what FreeFrom learned from the process.