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    **MEDIA ADVISORY** Arkansas Law Enforcement Leaders Back Child Tax Credit To Cut Crime

    Aug 23rd 2010



    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 23, 2010

    Contact: Ted Eismeier, ted@fightcrime.org

    Office: (202) 464-5350 Cell: (315) 335-9222



    LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Law enforcement officials from the Little Rock area will hold a news conference Wednesday to support the extension of the federal child tax credit for working families struggling in today’s recession. The law enforcement leaders will release new research showing that getting kids out of poverty can help reduce crime.

     

    Because family poverty is closely linked to later involvement in crime, the law enforcement leaders will call on Congress to expand the child tax credit available to lower-income working families. This would decrease stress on vulnerable families in the weak economy and decrease the likelihood that the children will commit crimes as adults.


    WHO:

    Hon. Dustin McDaniel, Arkansas Attorney General

    Sheriff Doc Holladay, Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office

    Chief of Police Herman Hutton, England Police Department

    Jeff Kirsch, Fight Crime: Invest in Kids Vice President


    WHAT:

    News Conference


    WHEN:

    1 p.m. CDT

    August 25, 2010


    WHERE:

    Office of the Attorney General

    323 Center Street, Suite 200

    Little Rock, Arkansas 72201

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