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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 […]

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. 

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

The Ohio Senate has passed its state budget bill. Policy Matters Ohio Tax Policy Researcher Bailey Williams issued the following statement:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.