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<span style="color:#00ffff">Event</span>: Join us tomorrow, <strong>Wednesday, October 13 at 11:30 AM ET</strong> for a Rural Opportunity and Development (ROAD) Session on <a href="https://aspencsg.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b551d018f08dff51178c763b7&id=d8a99facd5&e=fe142dac21" style="color:#007c89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#ffffff"><strong>Shared Prosperity: Building Power Towards an Equitable Rural Economy</strong></span></a>, held in conjunction with Rural LISC’s annual National Seminar. This fully virtual session will explore the positive economic and social potential that comes with improving racial equity in rural places. Come hear stories of power and capacity building at the community level and take away lessons on how rural places have united to become more inclusive and economically vibrant. <a href="https://aspencsg.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b551d018f08dff51178c763b7&id=8e897516e5&e=fe142dac21" style="color:#007c89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#ffffff"><strong>Register here.</strong></span></a>
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<div style="text-align:left"><span style="color:#00ffff">Event</span>: <a href="https://aspencsg.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b551d018f08dff51178c763b7&id=54b3111904&e=fe142dac21" style="color:#007c89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#ffffff"><strong>What Does It Take To Transform Persistent Rural Poverty into Opportunity?</strong></span></a> Tomorrow, <strong>Wednesday, October 13 at 2:30PM ET, </strong>the Urban Institute and leaders from six community development financial institutions (CDFIs) will be sharing opportunities for transforming poverty into opportunity in rural and Native communities. This virtual event will cover broad and diverse regions of rural America, discussing the critical role that CDFIs play in bringing capital and capacity to marginalized communities and towns.</div>
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<span style="color:#00ffff">Event</span>: Join us at <strong>2:00 PM ET on Thursday, October 14</strong> for <a href="https://aspencsg.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b551d018f08dff51178c763b7&id=3ddddb3524&e=fe142dac21" style="color:#007c89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#ffffff"><strong>Growing Language Skills with Immigrant Families: Spreading and Adapting 2Gen Working Practices</strong></span></a>, the third in our <a href="https://aspencsg.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b551d018f08dff51178c763b7&id=855a7e9d6c&e=fe142dac21" style="color:#007c89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#ffffff"><strong>four-part series</strong></span></a>. Whether it is written or spoken, language and dialect differences are a potential barrier to providing quality 2Gen programs to immigrant families, as well as successfully connecting them to employment, housing, education and other opportunities. What are some promising practices that work to grow language skills that can advance the lives of parents and children together? From workforce-centered ESL programs that meet the clients where they are in their family life, to early childhood education that centers the language needs of families together, organizations will share their experience translating materials and tailoring programs for the needs of immigrant parents and children. <a href="https://aspencsg.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b551d018f08dff51178c763b7&id=85d78ed5b5&e=fe142dac21" style="color:#007c89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#ffffff"><strong>Register Here</strong></span></a>.
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<div style="text-align:left"><span style="color:#00ffff">Save the date</span>: In addition to the October 14 webinar, we invite you to join us from <strong>2:00 to 4:00 PM ET on October 21</strong> for a peer-learning session on growing language skills with immigrant families. This session will build on the webinar by addressing the thorny issues around language barriers. Selected teams will bring forward real challenges that they are facing on the topic by sharing their peer advice question. Led by a team of experts, all other participants will offer practical advice to address that thorny question.<br>
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<div style="text-align:left"><span style="color:#00ffff">News Article:</span><span style="color:#ffffff"><strong> </strong></span><a href="https://aspencsg.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b551d018f08dff51178c763b7&id=f9082c235a&e=fe142dac21" style="color:#007c89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#ffffff"><strong>Changes in Child Tax Credit Have Bigger Impact on Rural Families</strong></span></a>. The Child Tax Credit (CTC) is a powerful tool for reducing economic inequality in rural America through monthly payments that help working families cover the cost of raising a child. In 2021, the CTC underwent major changes that allowed families to receive higher tax credit amounts and eliminated the minimum income requirement that previously prevented many families from being eligible.<br>
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In the linked news article, the Daily Yonder <a href="https://aspencsg.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b551d018f08dff51178c763b7&id=0b36798eb4&e=fe142dac21" style="color:#007c89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#ffffff"><strong>created a map</strong></span></a> displaying the percent of children likely to benefit from the new CTC changes at a county level. They found that nearly half of all children living in rural counties were likely to benefit from changes to the CTC's income requirements.</div>
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<div style="text-align:left"><span style="color:#00ffff">Resources</span>: The IRS has created a series of short, helpful videos that explain how advance Child Tax Credit payments work and what steps families should take to receive them. Some videos to check out include:</div>
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<li style="text-align:left"><a href="https://aspencsg.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b551d018f08dff51178c763b7&id=aaac0ede74&e=fe142dac21" style="color:#007c89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#ffffff"><strong>What are advance Child Tax Credit payments?</strong></span></a></li>
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<li style="text-align:left"><a href="https://aspencsg.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b551d018f08dff51178c763b7&id=7448241947&e=fe142dac21" style="color:#007c89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#ffffff"><strong>Will advance Child Tax Credit payments affect any government benefits someone is receiving?</strong></span></a></li>
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<div style="text-align:left">Use the IRS <a href="https://aspencsg.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b551d018f08dff51178c763b7&id=f61912787f&e=fe142dac21" style="color:#007c89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#ffffff"><strong>Eligibility Assistance Tool</strong></span></a> to find out if you may be eligible to receive advance monthly payments of the Child Tax Credit.</div>
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