Promoting Health Equity Through Economic Mobility National Webinar Trust for America’s Health and Bipartisan Policy Center

But just a reminder, if you have questions throughout, we encourage you to place those in the Q and A and not the chat section, so we are able to track and answer those questions after the presentations. [...] On the individual side of the tax code, we are hearing a lot in the news about policymakers, at the federal and state levels, the Child Tax Credit, the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit. [...] They highlight the Rapid Employment and Development Initiative in Chicago in 2017, the case study exhibiting the strategy of gun violence prevention, which they relate to the issue area of health and well-being, and also to the outcome areas of stable and healthy families, and supportive neighborhoods. [...] When it comes to the pandemic supports, you know… We learned a tremendous amount in the Child Tax Credit, for example, the importance of refund ability of the credit, and targeting it to families, that had the greatest impact on the lowest… Income households. [...] What is the effect of connecting people to housing resources, for example, on ER visits? For public health, the role can often be to support with, what are the resources in the communities that can go in the databases? As well as increasing comfort level for programs and clinicians to talk about tax, you do not have to be a tax expert to refer to tax filing.