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media mention June 9, 2023 Los Angeles Times: As IRS Funding Shrinks, California’s Wealthiest Can Breathe a Bit Easier
California millionaires and billionaires who were set to face the full auditing firepower of a revamped Internal Revenue Service can breathe a bit easier, thanks to congressional Republicans. Read more. -
media mention June 9, 2023 Forbes: House Proposal Would Restore Expanded And Improved Monthly Child Tax Credits
A group of U.S. Representatives has introduced the American Family Act, legislation that would make the previously expanded and improved monthly child tax credit permanent. Read more. -
media mention June 7, 2023 South Florida Sun Sentinel: Editorial: Short-Sighted Debt Deal Protects Tax Evaders
Not much in the debt ceiling extension deal will have lasting impact. But one significant aspect cuts $21 billion out of the $80 billion the IRS received in new money… -
media mention June 7, 2023 Route Fifty: Minnesota Takes On Corporate Profit Shifting
It has closed a loophole that companies use to create income tax havens abroad, and as overall tax revenue continues to slump, it could be a path other states take.… -
media mention June 6, 2023 Deseret News: Working Class Voters Want Politicians Who Will Focus on the Economy
The most important issue facing the U.S. today is still inflation, according to a new national poll, and this sentiment is being driven by Americans who identify as working and… -
media mention May 30, 2023 KALW’s Your Call: Debt Ceiling Agreement Targets the Poor While Protecting the Wealthy
ITEP Executive Director Amy Hanauer appeared on “Your Call” discussing the debt ceiling agreement. Listen here. -
media mention May 24, 2023 Governing: What’s Driving This Year’s Ambitious Tax Cuts?
Revenues are slowing but lawmakers, at least in red states, have continued to enact major tax cuts this year. Read more. -
media mention May 24, 2023 San Francisco Examiner: $66M Salesforce Program to Close Educational Gaps Has Only Widened Them
Ten years ago, Salesforce pledged millions to San Francisco’s public schools to help close an achievement gap between the district’s Black and brown students, who scored lower than their white… -
media mention May 22, 2023 Washington Post: How California’s Wild Weather Brought the Debt-Ceiling ‘X Date’ Closer
As President Biden and lawmakers scramble to strike a debt ceiling deal before the government runs out of money, each day counts — to the tune of about $17 billion. That’s how… -
media mention May 16, 2023 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The Politics of the Debt Ceiling Fight: A Numbers Game
Republicans focus on the size of the federal debt in demanding spending cuts in exchange for lifting the debt ceiling. Democrats highlight the number of Americans who would lose benefits… -
media mention May 16, 2023 The Texas Tribune: Why Tax Policy Experts Fear the Texas House Plan to Lower Property Taxes Could Have Dire Ripple Effects
Both the House and the Senate’s proposals on property tax cuts would give modest savings to the typical Texas homeowner, but critics say the House plan could create vast inequities… -
media mention May 2, 2023 Arkansas Times: A Decade of Tax Cuts for the Rich (and Pretty Much Nothing for You or Me)
Taxes help pay for the public services that many of us take for granted — most of our state budget goes to funding education and health services that benefit us… -
media mention April 25, 2023 The New York Times: What’s the Matter With New York?
Bashing New York City has long been a popular pastime on the right. Conservatives routinely portray the Big Apple as a dystopian wasteland. And the bashing has reached a fever… -
media mention April 25, 2023 The New Republic: The Future of the Expanded Child Tax Credit Is With the States (for Now)
Congress failed to renew the wildly successful measure, but state lawmakers across the country are working to bring it back. Read more. -
media mention April 25, 2023 The Lever: Joe Manchin’s Tax Hike On The Working Class
Despite representing one of America’s poorest states, West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin (D) decided in 2021 to kill legislation to extend expanded child and antipoverty tax credits that were helping the working class. The expiration of… -
media mention April 24, 2023 The Hill: The Racial Wealth Gap Won’t Budge: There’s a Tax for That
The racial wealth gap is one of the most glaring injustices in the U.S. today. Hundreds of years of structural and legal barriers excluded and prevented Black households from being… -
media mention April 14, 2023 The American Prospect: The Taxman Cometh
Last week, with Tax Day right around the corner, the IRS released a highly anticipated strategic operations plan, explaining how the agency intends to operate over the next decade. Flush with… -
media mention April 14, 2023 Nevada Current: ‘The Tourists Pay It’ is a Lousy Excuse for Punishing Nevadans with a Regressive Tax System
What type of business generates the most sales tax revenue in Clark County, home of the Fabulous Las Vegas Strip? If you guessed “food services and drinking places” ding ding… -
media mention April 13, 2023 Arkansas Times: Making Arkansas Worse Again
With the 2023 legislative session blessedly at its end, Arkansas progressives (plus moderates and anyone to the left of the Proud Boys) know what complete and utter political defeat looks… -
media mention April 7, 2023 The Oklahoman: Sen. Kirt: Tax Credits are a Reverse Robin Hood, Robbing Public Schools of Needed Resources
Private school voucher proposals have moved through both the House and Senate over the last few weeks. Now we cannot be sure what final deal may come out of negotiations… -
media mention March 29, 2023 Time: No One Is Talking About What Ron DeSantis Has Actually Done to Florida
Media coverage of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s all-but-announced candidacy for president is already in full frenzy, and so far the script is exactly as his handlers would like it to… -
media mention March 23, 2023 Deseret News: Biden Wants to ‘Tax the Rich.’ Does a Tax Hike Make Sense?
The U.S. had about 720 billionaires at the start of his presidency, President Joe Biden said in his State of the Union speech. “Now we have about 1,000,” he said.… -
media mention March 13, 2023 Kansas Legislators’ War on the Poor Opens Worrisome New Front: School Vouchers and Tax Avoidance
Kansas legislative leaders have declared war on the poor. They have pushed bills penalizing those receiving government assistance through the House Welfare Reform Committee. They have advocated a flat tax plan that benefits… -
media mention March 10, 2023 Vox: Biden’s Plan to Tax the Rich, Explained
Billionaires in the US pay a tiny proportion of the wealth they accrue in taxes compared to the cut ordinary Americans pay from their wages. Now, President Joe Biden wants that to… -
media mention March 10, 2023 MarketWatch: Biden’s Tax Hikes for the Rich are Unlikely to Pass. The Bigger Debate: Trump-era Tax Cuts that End in 2025.
For five years, most Americans have seen lower income-tax rates and tapped a bigger standard deduction, but without congressional action before the end of 2025, the rules could still revert…