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Low- to moderate-income workers may also be eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit, a refundable tax break.

State law requires Astalis to provide alternative housing, either on his parcels or elsewhere, for all units that were renting at low- and moderate-income rates.

The California Mobility Index, created by the HEA Group and College Futures Foundation, ranks four-year California colleges based on how much low- and moderate-income students — those whose annual household income is $75,000 or less — have improved their socioeconomic standing.

Indeed, nearly all of the top 50 schools on the CMI boosted the earnings of their low- and moderate-income students by at least $20,000 over what someone with only a high school degree would make.

Those institutions cost low- and moderate-income students less than almost every private school on the list.