Teen Vogue: How Proposed Tax Reform Would Impact Young People

Meg Wiehe, deputy director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), tells Teen Vogue that caring about social policy requires understanding tax policy. “What I want people to understand is that this touches every part of their lives… this is the fight. This is a health care fight. This is an immigration fight. It’s a fight that impacts communities of color. It impacts young people, and it impacts women. This is everything tied into one.”

So how will these proposed policies affect you?An ITEP report noted that the policies proposed by Republican lawmakers were written to benefit corporations and those in higher-income tax brackets. Read more