"Earned Income Tax Credit Awareness Day"

Left to right: Julia Cheng, Sarah Priest, Sonya Welter, Tom Albright (aide to Senator Al Franken), United Way of Greater Duluth president Paula Reed, West Duluth CDC director Kris Ridgewell, Xavier Bell, Jennifer Snyder, and St Louis County commissioner Steve O'Neil.

Community Action Duluth held a news conference outside the Gerald W. Heaney Federal Building, Friday, January 27, 2012, to celebrate Earned Income Tax Credit Awareness Day and highlight the start of Free Tax Prep. FOX-21, KBJR and WDIO sent reporters and photographers. A project of the Tax Site and Community Engagement teams, the news conference and its lead-up press releases generated television coverage as well as print articles in the Budgeteer paper. We picked the location because there's an IRS office inside the Federal Building. It also has a view of the Ordean Building, location of the newest tax site!

Left to right: Participant Shannon Redbrook, left, and tax site coordinator Julia Cheng listen as FAIM participant Ginga Newton speaks about the impact of EITC, free tax prep and FAIM on her as a single mother.