when a mother with a couple of children who lives in usaen or san marcos or san antonio leaves the welfare program for a full-time minimum wage job, the tax credit are available to help her and other working families. that increases the value of her work in a significant way and is an incentive to advance. at the same period of time through the recent recession, there were reports by the pew research center that hispanics particularly represented the hardest hit by the recession. a 66% drop in wealth from 2005 to 2009. a widening of the gap in our country that has not been seen in the last 25 years during the time that data was collected. these are serious problems that need to be addressed to encourage and help people move into the middle class and to so our nation has the revenues it has to sus tape those