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media mention October 16, 2022
Convergence: People-Side Economics: Steps to Tax Justice and a Green Economy

Gloom shrouds the news on the economy. Workers get blamed for inflation and the common solutions on offer bring more pain. But when we center the interests of workers and…
media mention October 13, 2022
Insider: These Are the Wealthiest US States, According to a New Report — and a Wealth Tax on the Country’s Richest Would Raise $415 Billion

Wealth inequality has been on the rise over the last few decades, and some states have residents sitting on a whole lot of cash. A new report from the Institute on…
news release October 13, 2022
Report: Ten States Hold 71 Percent of America’s Extreme Wealth

Tackling wealth inequality through the tax code can boost economic opportunity Washington, DC: Wealth inequality is rampant in every state and particularly concentrated in a handful of states, according…
media mention October 8, 2022
The Progressive: The Government Is Actually Doing a Good Job

You wouldn’t know it from watching the news, but American children are doing better than they were at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, at least when it comes to…
October 7, 2022

How the Inflation Reduction Act’s Tax Reforms Can Help Close the Racial Wealth Gap Centuries of discrimination have prevented people of color from building wealth, leaving them economically disadvantaged compared…
media mention October 7, 2022
Bloomberg: How Legal Weed Has Changed the US

Turn an illicit product into a highly taxed and regulated one and you have a classic business experiment. Do it with a little-studied psychoactive substance that has both medical promise…
media mention October 7, 2022
Financial Times: Wall Street Finds a Tax Silver Lining in Down Market

Wall Street banks have found a silver lining in this year’s market rout: making money by helping wealthy clients sell some investments at a loss to lighten their tax bills.…
media mention October 7, 2022
Houston Chronicle: Middle-Class Texans Lap Up the Low Taxes Lie

Texas is a low-tax state only if you make a lot of money. If you don’t, then you’re better off in California. The biggest lie Texas politicians have ever told…
media mention September 30, 2022
Mother Jones: How One Man Helped Make America a Global Tax Haven

During the mid-1990s, trust and estate lawyer Jonathan Blattmachr had an innovative idea that would come to revolutionize the American trust industry. Blattmachr is a veteran of the wealth management…
ITEP Work in Action September 28, 2022
North Carolina Budget & Tax Center: Missing the Mark for North Carolina

Inflation isn’t just a pocketbook problem, it’s a budget problem as well. Governments feel the pinch of gas prices climbing higher, food becoming more expensive, and increased competition from private…
news release September 15, 2022
ITEP Policy Briefs: More and More States Are Helping Low-Income Families with New and Expanded Tax Credits

13 states plus D.C. created or expanded state CTCs or EITCs this year, helping create more equitable state tax systems WASHINGTON, D.C.: In 2022’s state legislative sessions, lawmakers across the…
media mention September 14, 2022
Center for Public Integrity: How State Taxes Make Inequality Worse

All but a handful of states make poor residents contribute a greater share of their income to taxes than wealthy people do. Economists call that upside-down approach “regressive.” Nationwide, the…
news release September 9, 2022
New Report Shows Romney Child Tax Credit Proposal Falls Short for Low- and Moderate-Income Families

Plan Would Leave 1 in 4 Children Worse Off Compared to Current Law and Help Half as Many Low-Income Children as the 2021 Expansion of the Credit Washington, D.C. —…
media mention September 3, 2022
Yahoo: Handful of States Debate Whether to Tax Forgiven Student Loans

A handful of states could still end up taxing President Biden’s recently announced student loan forgiveness of up to $20,000. Read more.
ITEP Work in Action September 1, 2022
Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy: 2022 Special Legislative Session: Understanding Impacts of the Tax and Education Bill

State surpluses and strong revenue growth are leaving many states with a big opportunity this year. Idaho is no exception and is faced with options to advance policies that directly…
ITEP Work in Action August 30, 2022
Maine Center for Economic Policy: New Tax Relief Plan Will Disproportionately Benefit Wealthy Seniors

This year, lawmakers included a tax change in the state’s budget that will significantly expand tax benefits for pension recipients in Maine. Beginning in 2023, pension recipients will be allowed…
media mention August 29, 2022
Minnesota Reformer: Scott Jensen’s Proposal to Eliminate Income Tax Would Benefit Minnesota’s Wealthiest

Republican nominee for governor Scott Jensen wants to eliminate the state income tax, which would create a $15 billion hole in the state budget every year. Read more.
ITEP Work in Action August 28, 2022
Missouri Budget Project: Special Session Tax Proposal Leaves Out 1/3 of Missouri Taxpayers, Weighted to Benefit Wealthiest

Governor Parson’s recently released tax proposal would leave out about one-third of Missourians, including many of those who pay the highest proportion of their income in state & local taxes,…
media mention August 23, 2022
The New Republic: How Red States Use Regressive Grocery Taxes to Feed the Rich

Conservative state legislatures are using pandemic-era surpluses to give tax cuts for the wealthy while maintaining unfair flat taxes that punish the poor. Read more.
blog August 22, 2022
Four Tax Policy Wins in the Inflation Reduction Act and Four More That Can Build on This Progress

With four major tax policy provisions, the IRA takes a huge step toward a fairer tax code and a more equitable economy. But as always, there are more steps lawmakers should take to build on this progress.
blog August 22, 2022
Putting Cleveland and the Nation on a Path Toward Tax and Climate Justice

Editor’s note: This originally ran as an opinion piece in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. When I left Cleveland to work on federal tax policy after 20 years running Policy Matters…
blog August 22, 2022
The Case for More IRS Funding

Editor’s note: This originally ran as an opinion piece in The Hill. Though the Inflation Reduction Act is enormously popular, some politicians and pundits are trying to generate hysteria about…
media mention August 19, 2022
Newsweek: Stimulus Check Update: Child Tax Credit Bill Faces Uphill Battle

Conversations on reviving the expanded child tax credit—which the White House credited as the main driver behind bringing child poverty to record lows in 2021—might not be finished yet. Read…
media mention August 18, 2022
The Progressive: Finding Cash for Kids

Congress failed to extend the expanded Child Tax Credit, which cut childhood poverty by nearly a third. Now, states are adopting their own versions. Read more.
media mention August 15, 2022
KALW’s ‘Your Call’: Senate Democrats Impose New Tax Rules on Corporations

ITEP’s Joe Hughes joined Your Call to discuss the tax provisions in the Democrats’ reconciliation bill, which passed the Senate on Sunday without one Republican vote. Listen here.

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