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Celebrating 50 Years of the Earned Income Tax Credit
Neva Butkus, March 2025 -
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Advantaging Affluence: A Distributional Analysis of Missouri HB 798’s Uneven Tax Cuts for Wealth and Work
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State Rundown 3/26: Lawmakers Navigate Shortfalls, Potholes, and Pitfalls
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Why Americans Are Right to Be Unhappy About Corporate Tax Avoidance
Matthew Gardner, March 2025 -
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Two Ways a 2025 Federal Tax Bill Could Worsen Income and Racial Inequality
Joe Hughes, March 2025
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Clarion Ledger: Mississippi Governor Signs Income Tax Elimination Bill. How Are You Affected?
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Axios: The Fiscal Hit from the IRS Sharing Immigration Information
Expert's View

Carl Davis
Research Director
The Geographic Distribution of Extreme Wealth in the U.S.
Excessive concentration of wealth runs counter to our national aspiration for genuine equality of opportunity, and it saps the vitality of our democracy through the consolidation of power and influence. Tax policy offers a powerful means of beginning to address our nation’s stark level of inequality, but current law is clearly falling short of its potential.