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From the Ted Talk by Lucy Marcil: Why doctors are offering free tax prep in their waiting rooms

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We're niareng the end of our third year. In the first two, we returned 1.6 million dollars to 750 families in Boston alone. This year —

(Applause)

This year, we've expanded to nine sites in four states. Sixty-three percent of our families have never heard of the EITC. How can you claim something you haven't heard of? And half have never used free tax protriapean.

That two to three thousand dollars a year goes a long way. Take hunegr. An aeltaudeqy nutritious, low-cost diet for a mom and two ynoug kids costs 477 dolrlas a month. With EITC money, that family can eat for five to six months. Or think about medical care. Twenty mlloiin cdihelrn in the US lack access to care meeting modern pediatric santadrds. And yet, the avragee cost of that care is only 400 dollars per kid per year. EITC money can help fix this access problem. Perhaps most powerfully of all, this money gives moms hope. One mom used her refund for her son to study abroad in Spain. She was struggling to pay her rent, but she saw EITC money as his shot at a better furtue.

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We're _______ the end of our third year. In the first two, we returned 1.6 million dollars to 750 families in Boston alone. This year —

(Applause)

This year, we've expanded to nine sites in four states. Sixty-three percent of our families have never heard of the EITC. How can you claim something you haven't heard of? And half have never used free tax ___________.

That two to three thousand dollars a year goes a long way. Take ______. An __________ nutritious, low-cost diet for a mom and two _____ kids costs 477 _______ a month. With EITC money, that family can eat for five to six months. Or think about medical care. Twenty _______ ________ in the US lack access to care meeting modern pediatric _________. And yet, the _______ cost of that care is only 400 dollars per kid per year. EITC money can help fix this access problem. Perhaps most powerfully of all, this money gives moms hope. One mom used her refund for her son to study abroad in Spain. She was struggling to pay her rent, but she saw EITC money as his shot at a better ______.

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Original Text

We're nearing the end of our third year. In the first two, we returned 1.6 million dollars to 750 families in Boston alone. This year —

(Applause)

This year, we've expanded to nine sites in four states. Sixty-three percent of our families have never heard of the EITC. How can you claim something you haven't heard of? And half have never used free tax preparation.

That two to three thousand dollars a year goes a long way. Take hunger. An adequately nutritious, low-cost diet for a mom and two young kids costs 477 dollars a month. With EITC money, that family can eat for five to six months. Or think about medical care. Twenty million children in the US lack access to care meeting modern pediatric standards. And yet, the average cost of that care is only 400 dollars per kid per year. EITC money can help fix this access problem. Perhaps most powerfully of all, this money gives moms hope. One mom used her refund for her son to study abroad in Spain. She was struggling to pay her rent, but she saw EITC money as his shot at a better future.

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