Annapolis, MD – Amid the partisan discord in Annapolis, Republicans and Democrats do agree on one thing. They want to funnel as much as $70 million into the pockets of Maryland’s working poor by expanding a program widely considered the government’s most effective tool for helping people out of poverty.
In Maryland, Republican Gov. Larry Hogan and his chief critic in the Senate, Democrat Richard S. Madaleno, have pitched competing plans to enhance the state version of the Earned Income Tax Credit, by giving those who claim the credit more money or increasing the number of people who can claim it.