Loyola University’s Jesuit Social Research Institute has issued a report that assesses how all 50 states are faring in three overlapping dimensions of social justice: poverty, racial disparities, and immigrant exclusion. As this Tax Credits for Working Families post points out, the states at the very bottom of the overall rankings (Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Alabama, Georgia, and New Mexico) are also states that either have no state EITC or a state-level EITC at a very low percentage of the federal credit. In contrast, states such as Connecticut, Vermont, and Massachusetts – all of which offer some of the highest state-level EITCs in the nation – ranked near the top of the list. Additional maps and index data are also available.
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