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The goal of the Center on Business and Poverty, an initiative of the UW-Madison School of Business, is to support and disseminate high-quality research into ways in which businesses can help globally improve the long-term economic stability and well-being of their low-income employees. The Center also monitors and evaluates the efforts of businesses to address issues around 1) compensation and benefits for employees, and 2) environmental practices. Of these priorities, the Center focuses most on cooperating with and actively disseminating information to companies to help them make changes in their policies and practices related to low-income employees.

Duke Law Volunteers Help Low-Income Employees with Tax Returns

Durham, NC -- Volunteers from Duke Law School will prepare tax returns for Duke employees free of charge. To be eligible for the Volunteer Income Tax Service, known as VITA, employees must earn less than $30,000 annually.

Among the locations, Duke Law students, faculty and staff will be at the Duke University Federal Credit Union, 2200 West Main St. Appointments can be scheduled from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Feb. 8, 15, 22 and 29, and on April 4. To make an appointment at the credit union, clients must visit the Erwin Square Plaza branch.

NY Times, 4/13/08, When Tech Innovation Has a Social Mission

By JOHN MARKOFF
Palo Alto, Calif.

STEVE WOZNIAK built the original Apple I to share with his friends at the Homebrew Computer Club, but it was his business partner Steve Jobs who had the insight that there might be a market for such a contraption. Indeed, for decades, Silicon Valley has been defined by the tension between the technologist’s urge to share information and the industrialist’s incentive to profit.

Now a new style of “hybrid” technology organization is emerging that is trying to define a path between the nonprofit world and traditional for-profit ventures.

Expanding the success of the Earned Income Tax Credit

By Emily Sachs
Community Dividend
2008 Issue No. 1
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

http://www.minneapolisfed.org/pubs/cd/08-1/eitc.cfm?js=0%20%3C/noscript%

Since the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) was added to the U.S. tax code 32 years ago, it has become the leading federal program for boosting the incomes of the working poor. Traditional cash aid, like that of the former welfare system, did little to encourage recipients to join the workforce and change their socioeconomic status. But by virtue of being directly tied to earnings, the EITC essentially subsidizes work.

Coaches overcoming program's challenges

Despite underfunding, they help small firms
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
By JOHN SCHMID
Posted: Dec. 2, 2007

Paulette Smith didn't choose to be a business owner. But when her 34-year-old son, Stacey Currie, was killed in a inner city shooting three years ago, Smith took over his auto-detailing business, determined to keep it going despite her admitted lack of experience.

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