We are in the midst of a care crisis, caused by a rapidly aging population and an increased need for long-term care that the current workforce just can’t keep up with. Immigrants play a vital role to fill that gap. Without immigrants, our already broken care system would collapse.
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ITEP Work in Action June 13, 2025 Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network: We Can’t Solve the Care Crisis Without Immigrants
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ITEP Work in Action June 13, 2025 Policy Matters Ohio: A Budget for Ohio’s Millionaires
The Ohio Senate has passed its state budget bill. Policy Matters Ohio Tax Policy Researcher Bailey Williams issued the following statement:
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ITEP Work in Action June 12, 2025 DC Fiscal Policy Institute: Undocumented Immigrants Make DC’s Tax Base More Resillient
As she and the federal government escalate attacks on immigrants, DC should not overlook the many ways these residents contribute to the communities they live in and the local economy, including through their tax contributions toward DC’s shared resources.
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media mention June 12, 2025 USA Today: Los Angeles is Grappling with ‘Collective Grief and Frustration’ Amid Protests
In a year that’s already been punctuated by the devastating wildfires that will take years to rebuild, an emotionally weary Los Angeles County is back in an unwanted spotlight due to nearly a week of anti-ICE protests that are testing its character.
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blog June 11, 2025 State Rundown 6/11: States in The Eye of a Fiscal Hurricane?
State legislatures are enjoying a relatively quiet period right now, though it is merely a temporary calm before the storm of the federal tax and budget debate begins raging again.
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ITEP Work in Action June 11, 2025 Montana Budget & Policy Center: Tax Policy Highs and Lows from the 2025 Montana Legislature
The 2025 Legislature made a number of changes to Montana’s tax system, including an expensive cut to the income tax and restructuring of the property tax system.
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media mention June 11, 2025 Axios: Behind the Curtain: A Decades-in-the-Making Immigration War
President Trump undoubtedly stands on strong political ground, backed by most Americans, in cases where he’s deporting convicted criminals. Now comes a new test, literally 40 years in the making: How comfortable are Americans with deporting millions of immigrants who paid taxes, built families and committed no crimes after coming here illegally?
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ITEP Work in Action June 10, 2025 Center for American Progress: Governors Should Fight for an Economic Agenda To Improve the Lives of Working-Class Residents
Governors are uniquely able to advance an economic agenda that reflects the needs of the working class, giving them the opportunity to illustrate a contrast with the Trump administration, whose policies favor billionaires at the expense of working people.
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ITEP Work in Action June 10, 2025 Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy: What You Need to Know About the National Private School Voucher Proposal in the U.S. House Budget Bill
Normally, when individuals sell stock, they must pay capital gains taxes on any profit they’ve made. But donors who gift their stock to an SGO wouldn’t have to pay capital gains taxes on any increase in the stock’s value, and they would still get the generous dollar-for-dollar tax credit, yielding a personal profit for themselves.
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ITEP Work in Action June 10, 2025 Georgia Budget and Policy Institute: The House-Passed Reconciliation Bill Would Significantly Increase National Debt, Primarily Benefitting Top Earners, While Cutting Health Care and Food Assistance
Overall, the budget reconciliation legislation would reduce federal taxes for Georgians by $16.6 billion annually. However, 69% of these savings ($11.5 billion) are directed to the highest-earning 20% of Georgia households, or those making over $153,100 per year.
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media mention June 9, 2025 CBS News: Millions of U.S. Kids Could Lose the Child Tax Credit under GOP Budget Bill, Experts Say
A Republican-backed budget package includes a new restriction for the federal Child Tax Credit that could strip the benefit from millions of children who are U.S. citizens or legal residents, according to policy experts.
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media mention June 9, 2025 Newsweek: Child Tax Credit Could Be Stripped from Millions of Children
Anew budget proposal that would impose new restrictions on the federal Child Tax Credit could eliminate the benefit for millions of U.S. citizens or legally resident children, policy experts have said.
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media mention June 6, 2025 CNN: Trump’s Big Bill Includes an ‘Unprecedented’ Tax Credit for a National School Voucher Program. Here’s How It Would Work.
Carl Davis, research director at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, says the program is generous – to say the least. “A dollar-for-dollar charitable donation tax credit is unprecedented at the federal level,” he told CNN in an email.
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media mention June 6, 2025 Injustice Watch: Property-Tax Foreclosure Reform Gets Put Off by Illinois Legislators
“It boggles the mind that the state legislature would just keep kicking the can down the road, and you have a crisis on your hands,” said Rita Jefferson, an analyst with the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonprofit that advocates for more equitable tax policies.
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ITEP Work in Action June 6, 2025 Congressional Budget Office: Effects of the Surge in Immigration on State and Local Budgets in 2023
In this report, the Congressional Budget Office estimates how the surge in immigration that began in
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media mention June 5, 2025 The American Prospect: Trump’s Beautiful Bill Will Kick 11 Million People Off Their Health Insurance
The Congressional Budget Office published its latest estimate of the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act on Wednesday. The results are gruesome.
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blog June 5, 2025 State Rundown 6/5: States Wrap Sessions, Some Prepare for Fiscal Uncertainty
States use the final hours of their legislative sessions to address deficits and preserve revenue in preparation for the times ahead.
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media mention June 5, 2025 U.S. News & World Report: Ignore the Populist Rhetoric. The GOP Tax Bill Exposes their True Colors
The tax code is about more than depreciation, deductions, expenses and the things we focus on when we report our income to the IRS every April. It’s about who gets the breaks in this country – and what that says about the priorities and values of those who write our tax laws.
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media mention June 5, 2025 Fox News: Educational Choice for Children Act: A Tax Break for the Rich, Not a Lifeline for Students
A proposal quietly tucked into the House GOP’s reconciliation package, part of what’s being marketed as President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill,” would give wealthy individuals and corporations a 100% federal tax credit for donations to private school scholarship funds.
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ITEP Work in Action June 5, 2025 Roosevelt Institute: It’s Time to End Joint Tax Filing
A move to individual filing, making the tax code marriage neutral and reducing tax rates on married women who work, would not only simplify the tax code but make it fairer and increase the ability of married women to participate fully in the economy.
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blog June 5, 2025 Trump’s Last Tax Cuts Failed Americans Like Me. Let’s Not Repeat the Mistake.
Now as more GOP tax cuts for the rich move through Congress, history is poised to repeat itself. The bill would disproportionately benefit the well-off — and harm the financial well-being of millions of working Americans, including Black women like me.
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ITEP Work in Action June 4, 2025 Kentucky Center for Economic Policy: Program Cuts and Tariff Costs Will Leave Many Kentucky Families Worse Off, Even with Modest Tax Cuts
On Thursday, May 22nd, the House of Representatives passed its major tax and spending legislation, which included last-minute revisions that made it even more favorable for the wealthy.
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blog June 3, 2025 Sweeping Federal Tax and Spending Changes Threaten Local Governments
Given this environment, local leaders must do what they can to preserve and strengthen progressive revenue tools, advocate for expanded local taxing authorities and flexibility, and push their state leaders to decouple from harmful federal tax changes.
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blog June 3, 2025 Five Issues for States to Watch in the Federal Tax Debate
This post covers five particularly notable provisions for states: increasing deductions for state and local taxes (SALT) paid, allowing more generous tax write-offs for businesses, offering new avenues for capital gains tax avoidance to people contributing to private school voucher funds, carving tips and overtime out of the tax base, and re-upping Opportunity Zone tax breaks for wealthy investors.
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media mention June 2, 2025 Missouri Independent: Proposed Federal Tax Changes could Mean $170M or More Cut to Missouri State Revenues
Along with hundreds of millions in potential new costs for Missouri taxpayers, an analysis of the budget bill backed by Congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump shows it would also cut state revenue as tax changes at the federal level are reflected in state returns.