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Spring 2008 Community Assembly

Date: June 3, 2008

Helping families become financially stable and independent is one goal of United Way of the Midlands.  Keynote speaker Elizabeth Kneebone, a Research Analyst at the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program, will discuss strategies to encourage savings and asset building such as Individual Development Accounts, savings bonds, financial literacy, and split refund options.

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Ms. Kneebone's work focuses primarily on metropolitan demographics, tax policies for low-income workers, and the relationships between poverty and neighborhoods. Elizabeth has authored publications on the Earned Income Tax Credit and related tax benefits for low-income workers, including “A Local Ladder for Low-Income Workers: Recent Trends in the Earned Income Tax Credit.” She has also co-authored other Brookings publications, including “Two Steps Back: City and Suburban Poverty Trends 1999-2005.”  Prior to joining Brookings, Elizabeth worked as a Research Project Manager for the Illinois Facilities Fund, where her research included assessments of the need for quality public schools in Chicago's neighborhoods and the need for subsidized early childhood care and education programs throughout Illinois' counties and major municipalities. She received a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of Chicago and a B.A. from Indiana University. 

Brookland Conference Center

1066 Sunset Boulevard

West Columbia, SC 29163

 

Check-in & Buffet Breakfast 7:45 a.m.

 

Program 8-9:30 a.m.

Volunteer Awards

  • Community Impact Awards
  • Alyce Kemp DeWitt Award

Keynote Address

  • Tax Credits and Asset Building for Working People

Ms. Kneebone will discuss poverty trends and changes in poverty overtime, tax credits such as the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) related to poverty and wages, impact of refund anticipation loans, and strategies to encourage savings and asset building such as Individual Development Accounts, savings bonds, financial literacy, and split refund options.

 

Workshop: 9:45-11 a.m.

  • EITC in South Carolina 

In a new report, which will be published in May, The Brookings Institution looks at three different proposals for expanding the EITC, versions of all three have been introduced as legislation at the federal level. The workshop will review demographic information on EITC in South Carolina and the study’s findings on how each EITC expansion proposal would benefit South Carolina.

 

 

Gold Sponsors
AT&T
Colonial Supplemental Insurance
First Citizens
McNair Law Firm, P.A. 
Publix Super Market Charities
Time Warner
UPS 
 
Silver Sponsors
Carolina First
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLC
Palmetto Health
Sisters of Charity Providence Hospitals
 
Bronze Sponsors
Metabolic Medical Center

 

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