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Video: ITEP’s Joe Hughes Talks Child Tax Credit Expansion on Scripps News Live
June 12, 2023
ITEP Federal Policy Analyst Joe Hughes joined Scripps News Live to talk about the American Family Act, which would permanently expand the Child Tax Credit (CTC) to 2021 levels, helping millions of children and families, especially the lowest-income families who currently make too little to receive the CTC.
Los Angeles Times: As IRS Funding Shrinks, California’s Wealthiest Can Breathe a Bit Easier
June 9, 2023
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.
Forbes: House Proposal Would Restore Expanded And Improved Monthly Child Tax Credits
June 9, 2023
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.
South Florida Sun Sentinel: Editorial: Short-Sighted Debt Deal Protects Tax Evaders
June 7, 2023
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 from Congress last year. Read more.
Route Fifty: Minnesota Takes On Corporate Profit Shifting
June 7, 2023
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. Read more.
Deseret News: Working Class Voters Want Politicians Who Will Focus on the Economy
June 6, 2023
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 middle class. Read more.
KALW’s Your Call: Debt Ceiling Agreement Targets the Poor While Protecting the Wealthy
May 30, 2023
ITEP Executive Director Amy Hanauer appeared on “Your Call” discussing the debt ceiling agreement. Listen here.
Governing: What’s Driving This Year’s Ambitious Tax Cuts?
May 24, 2023
Revenues are slowing but lawmakers, at least in red states, have continued to enact major tax cuts this year. Read more.
San Francisco Examiner: $66M Salesforce Program to Close Educational Gaps Has Only Widened Them
May 24, 2023
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 and Asian peers in math and science courses. But a decade and $66 million later, that gap has only widened. Read more.
Washington Post: How California’s Wild Weather Brought the Debt-Ceiling ‘X Date’ Closer
May 22, 2023
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 much the U.S. Treasury spends daily, on average, to keep the government functioning. Read more.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The Politics of the Debt Ceiling Fight: A Numbers Game
May 16, 2023
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 if those cuts are made. Read more.
The Texas Tribune: Why Tax Policy Experts Fear the Texas House Plan to Lower Property Taxes Could Have Dire Ripple Effects
May 16, 2023
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 and disproportionately benefit wealthy homeowners. Read more.
Arkansas Times: A Decade of Tax Cuts for the Rich (and Pretty Much Nothing for You or Me)
May 2, 2023
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 all, whether we personally use them or not. But there are better and worse ways for a state to raise revenue. Read more.
The New York Times: What’s the Matter With New York?
April 25, 2023
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 pitch since Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, announced multiple charges against Donald Trump. Read more.
The New Republic: The Future of the Expanded Child Tax Credit Is With the States (for Now)
April 25, 2023
Congress failed to renew the wildly successful measure, but state lawmakers across the country are working to bring it back. Read more.
The Lever: Joe Manchin’s Tax Hike On The Working Class
April 25, 2023
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 the expanded tax credits resulted in more than three million kids being thrown into poverty. New data shows it also resulted in a massive regressive tax increase […]
The Hill: The Racial Wealth Gap Won’t Budge: There’s a Tax for That
April 24, 2023
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 able to accumulate and hold onto wealth — and policies continue to perpetuate those barriers today. While the civil rights movement brought changes that narrowed the gap, […]
The American Prospect: The Taxman Cometh
April 14, 2023
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 $80 billion in additional funding from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen ordered the IRS last year to develop a plan on […]
Nevada Current: ‘The Tourists Pay It’ is a Lousy Excuse for Punishing Nevadans with a Regressive Tax System
April 14, 2023
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 ding you are right. Read more.
Arkansas Times: Making Arkansas Worse Again
April 13, 2023
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 like. Read more.
The Oklahoman: Sen. Kirt: Tax Credits are a Reverse Robin Hood, Robbing Public Schools of Needed Resources
April 7, 2023
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 and whether it will stall or move forward to the governor’s desk. Read more.
Time: No One Is Talking About What Ron DeSantis Has Actually Done to Florida
March 29, 2023
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 be. Read more.
Deseret News: Biden Wants to ‘Tax the Rich.’ Does a Tax Hike Make Sense?
March 23, 2023
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. He went on to unveil his administration’s proposal to increase taxes on wealthy Americans — to include millionaires and billionaires — to fund other government […]
Kansas Legislators’ War on the Poor Opens Worrisome New Front: School Vouchers and Tax Avoidance
March 13, 2023
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 the wealthy at the expense of everyone else. We have watched these proposals unfold in recent weeks, watched and heard the disdain. Yet the war has […]
Vox: Biden’s Plan to Tax the Rich, Explained
March 10, 2023
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 change: His just-unveiled budget for fiscal year 2024 contains a tapestry of tax hikes with a laser-beam focus on billionaires, multi-millionaires, and large corporations, all aiming to […]
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