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media mention September 27, 2023 The Lever: Justices Have Financial Interest In Major Tax Case
John Roberts and Samuel Alito own shares of companies that could score billions in tax relief from the outcome of Moore v. United States. Read more. -
media mention September 21, 2023 Stateline: As Child Poverty Edges Back Up, States Launch or Expand Their Own Tax Credits
The federal pandemic-era child tax credit expansion lifted millions of children out of poverty in the second half of 2021. But Congress allowed it to expire at the end of… -
media mention September 18, 2023 Washington Post Editorial: The Best Vehicle for Addressing Child Poverty is Right Before Our Eyes
Child poverty in the United States more than doubled from 2021 to 2022, data released Tuesday from the Census Bureau shows. The surge — by far the largest jump on record — is a… -
media mention September 14, 2023 Video: ITEP’s Amy Hanauer Talks Poverty and the Child Tax Credit on the Rick Smith Show
This week the Census Bureau released new numbers showing that in 2022 the U.S. lost the dramatic gains made against child poverty in 2021, in large part due to the lapsed Child Tax Credit expansion.
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media mention September 13, 2023 Salon: Child Poverty More than Doubled in 2022 Due to Republicans’ Tax Cut Push. Trump Plans for More
Trump and his advisors are setting sights on an aggressive tax cut plan to push during his 2024 campaign. Read more. -
media mention September 12, 2023 Vanity Fair: Donald Trump Wants to Give His Favorite Corporations Another Giant Tax Cut in a Second Term
Remember when Donald Trump ran for office in 2016, claiming to be a champion of the working class and the worst nightmare of the global elite? And then passed a package… -
media mention September 11, 2023 Washington Post: Trump Advisers Plot Aggressive New Tax Cuts for Second White House Term
As Donald Trump widens his lead over other Republican candidates in the GOP primary, the former president’s closest economic advisers are plotting an aggressive new set of tax cuts to push on… -
media mention September 7, 2023 New York Times: New Corporate Minimum Tax Ushers In Confusion and a Lobbying Blitz
The new corporate minimum tax was one of the most significant changes to the U.S. tax code in decades. Its logic rested on the idea that rich companies should not be able… -
media mention August 24, 2023 Mother Jones: The Struggle to Tax the Rich Isn’t Done Yet—In Some States It’s Actually Happening
Under an overcast sky, Patty Flores led a group of colleagues to an empty lot in the mobile home park where she lived. A bare patch of grass traced the outline… -
media mention August 22, 2023 Mother Jones: “The Wealthy Tend to Always Look Out for Themselves”—The Attack on State Taxes By Outside Groups
Amia Edwards lives here because she wants to make a difference. But in this majority-Black city, long starved for funding by the state’s mostly white Legislature, that’s proved a steep challenge.… -
media mention August 15, 2023 Editorial: Back-to-School Sales Tax Holiday is Mostly Hype
It’s just about back-to-school time, and Gov. Phil Murphy and other Democratic state leaders are showing their love for New Jersey families by offering this special giveaway: 20 cents in… -
media mention August 14, 2023 Washington Post: Biden Wants Rich Companies to Pay Higher Taxes. Some Are Fighting Back.
It was a simple idea: Major U.S. corporations should pay at least a 15 percent tax on their income, ending an era when some of the country’s most profitable firms… -
media mention August 4, 2023 New York Times: What’s the Matter With Miami?
For a couple of years after the pandemic struck, there was considerable buzz to the effect that much of the financial industry might leave New York for Miami. After all,… -
media mention August 2, 2023 Chalkboard News: Some States Offer Back-to-School Tax Holidays. Do They Work?
As back-to-school shopping is expected to cost consumers an all-time high, some states have implemented sales-tax holidays aimed at providing some relief. Read more. -
media mention July 28, 2023 Charlotte Observer: NC Republicans Aren’t Worried About the Effects of Tax Cuts. You Should Be.
In mid-summer, the state capital is experiencing an odd mix of anxiety and content. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper is warning that plans by Republican state lawmakers to expand private school… -
media mention July 26, 2023 The Lever: The Magical Math Behind Disney’s Content Purge
As Hollywood actors and writers strike together for the first time since 1960 over pay, working conditions, and job security, Disney has purged dozens of original TV shows and movies… -
media mention July 19, 2023 Video: How Google, UPS & Amazon Avoid Paying Billions in Taxes
ITEP Senior Fellow Matt Gardner appeared on The Freedom Side to discuss corporate tax breaks and “bonus depreciation.”
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media mention July 17, 2023 Video: ITEP Executive Director Amy Hanauer Featured on The Young Turks Segment on Social Security
This Young Turks segment on Senator Ron Johnson’s comments on Social Security features his exchange with ITEP Executive Director Amy Hanauer as well as ITEP data.
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media mention July 17, 2023 The Hill: Progressive Groups Tell Dems To Back Out of Debt Ceiling Handshake Deal
Progressive groups are arguing a handshake agreement on spending struck by Republicans and Democrats while raising the debt ceiling is null and void. Read more. -
media mention July 12, 2023 Yahoo Finance: Could Social Security Be Saved by the ‘Buffett Rule?’
Among the chief proposals to fix Social Security before a major funding source runs out of money is to have wealthy Americans pitch in through higher taxes and lower benefits. One way to… -
media mention July 12, 2023 Sacramento Bee: Biden, Democrats Want to Increase Tax Break for Parents. It Could Help 15 million Californians
The increased tax credit would help an estimated 14.7 million Californians, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a progressive Washington-based research group. While the proposed increase has… -
media mention July 11, 2023 Video: ITEP’s Matt Gardner Talks Corporate Tax Breaks on Scripps News Live
ITEP Senior Fellow Matt Gardner talks about “bonus depreciation” and our new report that finds that this tax break has saved nearly $67 billion for 25 of the corporations that benefited most.
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media mention July 6, 2023 The New Republic: The Truth About the GOP and the Deficit: All They Do Is Raise It
They talk deficit reduction. But what they actually do—time after time after time—is raise it via corporate giveaways. Here’s the latest example. Read more. -
media mention July 1, 2023 Mountain State Spotlight: Tax Cuts, Low-Balled Estimates and Volatile Revenues: Inside West Virginia’s $1.8 Billion Budget Surplus
Gov. Jim Justice has used the state’s budget surplus as proof of his business skills as he runs for the U.S. Senate. But the surplus is built on unpredictable revenue… -
media mention June 26, 2023 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The Next Tax Debates are Heating Up in Congress
Call it the battle of the tax cuts. Western Pennsylvania’s lawmakers are on opposite sides as the U.S. House debates whether — and how — to cut taxes. Read more.