ITEP Work in Action
CAP: A New Immigration System To Safeguard America’s Security, Expand Economic Growth, and Make Us Stronger
July 7, 2025
"America needs to fix its broken immigration system. Bipartisan reform attempts have repeatedly failed over more than three decades, as Congress has kicked the can down the road without solving fixable problems. The existing, outdated system fails us all. We must make the immigration system work for America."
DC Fiscal Policy Institute: Statement on Final Passage of Federal Budget Reconciliation Bill
July 7, 2025
Today, Congressional Republicans gave final approval to a federal budget bill that makes historic cuts to social safety net programs, funnels unprecedented resources into mass deportation, and gives trillions in tax cuts largely to the wealthy while ballooning the deficit. Read more.
More Perfect Union: The One Big Beautiful Bill Is a Big Corporate Cash Grab
July 3, 2025
While the bill will make life harder for millions of current Medicaid recipients and low-income families, a wide swath of corporate America came out as big winners. Here’s a look at the industries that won in the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” and one that didn’t quite get everything it wanted.
Center for Law and Social Policy: Senate Budget Reconciliation Bill Sacrifices the Well-Being of Working Families to Give Tax Breaks to Billionaires
July 2, 2025
The budget reconciliation bill passed today by the Senate on a vote of 51-50, with Vice-President Vance casting the tie-breaking vote, will cause significant harm to millions of children and families, all for the sake of providing more tax breaks for the wealthy.
CBPP: Missouri Poised to Enact Appalling Giveaway to its Richest Residents
June 30, 2025
The exemption could reduce state revenues by around $600 million each year, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, roughly equal to the cost of funding 11,000 public school teachers’ salaries. Read more.
NC Budget & Tax Center: It’s Time for a Millionaire’s Tax in North Carolina
June 26, 2025
According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, this NC Senate proposal alone would deliver an additional average annual tax cut of $64,700 to millionaires in North Carolina, on top of their federal tax cuts and more than a decade of state cuts. This is more than 52 times the average amount received by non-millionaires, who would see roughly $1,200.
Nebraska Legislature: Poverty Elimination Action Plan
June 25, 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic spurred temporary expansions to existing anti-poverty programs, which had a profound impact on poverty rates…Key programs during this period included SNAP, the refundable Child Tax Credit, and increased funding for TANF. As federal pandemic relief has expired, several states have enacted state-level replacements. Read more.
Video: ITEP’s Amy Hanauer Discusses 2025 Tax Bill on Power at Work Blogcast
June 20, 2025
In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Brendan Duke, the Senior Director for Federal Budget Policy at CBPP, and Amy Hanauer, the Executive Director at ITEP, to discuss Trump’s tax-and-spending bill and its impact on workers and worker power. Watch now to hear these tax experts dissect […]
League of Women Voters: What’s Happening with Medicaid, Tax Cuts, and Budget Bills?
June 20, 2025
According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the highest-earning 20% of Americans will receive 69% of the bill’s tax cuts, and the highest-earning 1% of Americans will receive an average tax cut of about $70,000. Read more.
EdTrust: The Great American Heist: Taxing Education, Not Billionaires or Corporations
June 20, 2025
In a country where higher education is one of the few remaining ladders to economic mobility, the latest House budget reconciliation bill sends a deeply troubling message: tax colleges and universities that educate our future workforce but let corporations and the ultra-wealthy continue to skate by. Read more.
Testimony: ITEP’s Amy Hanauer Discusses the House Reconciliation Bill During a Senate Spotlight Forum
June 18, 2025
Thank you for including me today and you can find research that I reference today on the website of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy at www.itep.org. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) would cut services to poor and middle-class families, reduce revenue available for public needs, and provide large tax cuts primarily to the richest Americans, while also providing tax cuts to foreign investors.
Economic Policy Institute: How Anti-Worker Policies, Crony Capitalism, and Privatization Keep the South Locked Out of Shared Prosperity
June 18, 2025
Southern lawmakers have neglected basic worker protections and disinvested in social safety net programs while offering hefty subsidies to corporations, privatizing public goods, and giving the wealthy big tax breaks. Read more.
New Jersey Policy Perspective: Course Correction: Preserving Senior Housing Affordability While Cutting Costs
June 18, 2025
Renters also have significantly less wealth than their home-owning peers, and nearly 1 in 4 senior renters in New Jersey report it is “very likely” they will lose their home to eviction. Read more.
Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network: We Can’t Solve the Care Crisis Without Immigrants
June 13, 2025
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.
Policy Matters Ohio: A Budget for Ohio’s Millionaires
June 13, 2025
The Ohio Senate has passed its state budget bill. Policy Matters Ohio Tax Policy Researcher Bailey Williams issued the following statement:
DC Fiscal Policy Institute: Undocumented Immigrants Make DC’s Tax Base More Resillient
June 12, 2025
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.
Montana Budget & Policy Center: Tax Policy Highs and Lows from the 2025 Montana Legislature
June 11, 2025
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.
Center for American Progress: Governors Should Fight for an Economic Agenda To Improve the Lives of Working-Class Residents
June 10, 2025
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.
Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy: What You Need to Know About the National Private School Voucher Proposal in the U.S. House Budget Bill
June 10, 2025
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.
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
June 10, 2025
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.
Congressional Budget Office: Effects of the Surge in Immigration on State and Local Budgets in 2023
June 6, 2025
In this report, the Congressional Budget Office estimates how the surge in immigration that began in 2021 affected state and local budgets in 2023.
Roosevelt Institute: It’s Time to End Joint Tax Filing
June 5, 2025
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.
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy: Program Cuts and Tariff Costs Will Leave Many Kentucky Families Worse Off, Even with Modest Tax Cuts
June 4, 2025
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.
West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy: Big Beautiful Bill’s Tax Cuts Overwhelmingly Favor the Wealthiest in West Virginia Even Before Accounting for Tariffs and Benefit Cuts
May 31, 2025
Earlier this month the U.S. House of Representatives passed a major new tax and spending bill that not only represents the largest cuts to Medicaid and SNAP in history, taking away SNAP and Medicaid benefits from millions of recipients including tens of thousands in West Virginia, but also includes tax provisions that would overwhelmingly favor the richest taxpayers in […]
Migration Policy Institute: Seeking to Ramp Up Deportations, the Trump Administration Quietly Expands a Vast Web of Data
May 29, 2025
For example, the U.S. tax system mostly functions on voluntary compliance. Unauthorized immigrants contributed nearly $100 billion in local, state, and federal taxes in 2022, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy estimates. Concerns that taxpayers’ information could be shared with ICE could lead to a decline in compliance, resulting in reduced tax revenue.
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