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Private Equity Stakeholder Project: How PE Could Profit From Federal School Voucher Programs While Diminishing Services

• By ITEP Staff

The brief takes a closer look at two areas private equity is expanding into: tutoring and special education services.

Policy Matters Ohio: A Fair Share Tax Could Rebalance Ohio’s Tax Code

• By ITEP Staff

A fair share tax offers Ohio a better path forward. By requiring the state’s highest-income households to contribute in proportion to their ability to pay, it would restore balance to a tax system that has increasingly favored the wealthiest.

Institute for the Public Good: A New Path To Transforming Chicago’s Financial Future

• By ITEP Staff

Moving away from false binaries, and creating a pathway with real solutions to solving Chicago's fiscal crisis, while charting a path for growth and increased quality of life for all residents.

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Ballot Measures Restricting State Revenues and Citizen Initiatives Would Impede Needed Investments and Supports

• By ITEP Staff

Voters across the country will decide state ballot measures in the November elections that would reduce state lawmakers’ ability to raise revenue, restrict local governments’ agency to set their own tax policies, and limit voters’ ability to enact policies directly through citizen initiatives.

DC Fiscal Policy Institute: DC Can Raise Nearly $200 Million With a Simple Tax on Proceeds from Wealth

• By ITEP Staff

To solve DC’s mounting budget crisis without deepening entrenched racial and economic inequalities, DC lawmakers should tax DC’s extreme concentration of wealth to help turn the fiscal tide.

Policy Matters Ohio: Capital Gains Tax Cuts Benefit Few Ohioans, Harms Far More

• By ITEP Staff

Ohio House Bill 617 would eliminate state and local taxes on capital gains. Fewer than 1 in 5 Ohio tax filers would benefit from a capital gains tax cut, and those benefits would primarily go to a small number of high-income households. The resulting loss of state revenue could limit funding for public investments that contribute to long-term economic growth and opportunity for all Ohioans.

Immigration Research Initiative: ICE Spike Means 32,000 Fewer Jobs in Minnesota

• By ITEP Staff

It is increasingly clear that the program of mass deportation being carried out by the current administration is hurting American workers, both immigrants and those born in the United States. Nowhere has this been more stark than in Minnesota. In the peak months of December 2025 through February 2026, the massive surge in ICE arrests ripped people away from their families, their jobs, and their communities. A shocking nearly 4,000 arrests took place in Minnesota…

Pennsylvania Senate Democrats: Senator Kearney Introduces Constitutional Amendment to Repeal Uniformity Clause, Expand Options for Tax Fairness in Pennsylvania

• By ITEP Staff

Senator Tim Kearney (D-Delaware) is introducing legislation to amend the Pennsylvania Constitution by repealing the Uniformity Clause, a provision that locks Pennsylvania into one of the nation’s most regressive tax systems and prevents lawmakers from pursuing tax policies that better support working families and small businesses.

Policy Matters Ohio: Gas Tax Holiday Won’t Make Ohio Affordable; Legislators Have Better Options

• By ITEP Staff

The gas tax holiday is poorly targeted tax policy that provides too little relief to the people who need it most, drains crucial resources from the state budget, and fails to confront one of the primary drivers of the affordability crisis: inadequate wages for working people. Ohioans need relief. They also deserve better than a temporary tax gimmick.

American Civil Liberties Union: 76 Ways Mass Deportation Is Breaking Our Democracy

• By ITEP Staff

This report traces 76 ways the Trump administration has used the mass deportation agenda to undermine America’s multiracial democracy and civil rights and liberties.

Florida Policy Institute: Amendment 3 Local Funding Cuts Calculator

• By ITEP Staff

FPI's online calculator, powered by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, shows how Amendment 3 would impact funding in your neighborhood.

Massachusetts Budget & Policy Center: Strengthening the Foundation: 28 Progressive Revenue Options for Building a Better Massachusetts

• By ITEP Staff

This new tool describes 28 ways the Commonwealth could generate substantial new revenue in a manner that would fall least heavily on people with the least ability to pay.

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: In Radical Departure From Long-Standing Policy and Federal Law, Trump Administration Proposes New Regulation to Take Tax Credits Away From Many Families That Include Immigrants With Lawful Status

• By ITEP Staff

The Treasury Department has proposed a rule that would take away the refunded portion of certain tax credits from many individuals with lawful immigration status.

Arizona Center for Economic Progress: What Does a Strong Arizona Economy Actually Look Like?

• By ITEP Staff

The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy ranks Arizona as having the 13th most regressive tax system in the country. Colorado ranks 39th.

District of Columbia Tax Expenditure Report Cites ITEP Analysis

• By ITEP Staff

The District’s property tax circuit breaker program (also known as “Schedule H”) allows low-income homeowners and renters to claim a property tax credit applied to the taxpayer’s income tax liability

Audio: ITEP’s Sarah Austin Warns Against Swapping Income Taxes for Sales Taxes.

• By Sarah Austin

ITEP Senior Analyst Sarah Austin appeared on the Oregon Center for Public Policy’s “Policy for the People” podcast, discussing tax policy choices that would ask more from working families instead of the wealthy.

DC Fiscal Policy Institute: Five Principles for Strong DC Tax Policy

• By ITEP Staff

Lawmakers can use this moment to advance a more progressive and racially-just tax system by evaluating tax proposals across five dimensions: equity, adequacy and stability, simplicity, neutrality, and accountability.

North Carolina Budget & Tax Center: Income tax limits would deepen racial inequity in NC

• By ITEP Staff

This November, North Carolinians will vote on a constitutional amendment that would limit the state income tax rate to 3.5 percent both for personal and corporate income taxes, a significant decrease from 7 percent, which was the maximum rate approved by voters in 2018.

Responsible Statecraft: On This Labor Day, Trump Offers No Sympathy to Working Americans

• By ITEP Staff

The president's war has jacked up energy prices, including gas and the diesel used to transport goods, and his White House appears not to care. 

Critical Public Health: Fiscal Reform Under the “One Big Beautiful Bill” and It’s Public Health Implications

• By ITEP Staff

The ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ is framed by its proponents as the largest middle-class tax cut in U.S. history and a catalyst for economic growth. Yet, beneath the marketing of ‘jobs, tax cuts, and American prosperity’, the legislation conceals sweeping rollbacks of Medicaid, food assistance, education, reproductive care, and expanded immigration enforcement, alongside tax windfalls for venture capital and immigration enforcement.

Institute for Policy Studies: A Perfect Storm: How Federal Policy Changes Are Increasing Economic Insecurity for America’s Families

• By ITEP Staff

This report examines how recent policy changes in healthcare, food assistance, housing, and immigration are affecting families and communities, while also outlining what to expect in the coming year.

National Conference of State Legislatures: The State of Sales Tax Holidays

• By ITEP Staff

It’s back-to-school time again, and for many families it’s time to start planning shopping trips to stock up on supplies and new clothes for the coming year. For many states, this means hosting sales tax holidays to assist parents and students with these annual purchases. Sales tax holidays are limited windows of time during which […]

ITEP Cited in Lawsuit Filed by Advocates and 18 State Attorneys General to Stop IRS-ICE Data Sharing

• By ITEP Staff

Several states filed a legal brief last week urging the courts to side with plaintiffs who have sued the Trump administration in an attempt to have the IRS-ICE data sharing agreement stuck down. The legal brief cites three ITEP reports (see pages 9-10 and 14). Read more

Center for American Progress: Americans Pay the Price for Trump’s War While Oil and Gas Companies Get Rich

August 7, 2026

As Americans pay more at the pump, five of the top oil and gas companies have brought in $65.5 billion in profit so far this year—up 65 percent from this time last year.

Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy: How the One Big Beautiful Bill’s Tax Changes Impact Idaho Families

• By ITEP Staff

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) made major changes to public programs and the federal tax code. It included about $4.5 trillion in tax cuts, with most of the benefits going to higher-income households. To help pay for those tax cuts, the law also reduced funding for health care and food assistance and shifted some federal costs onto the states.

Advocates and policymakers at the state and federal levels rely on ITEP’s analytic capabilities to inform their debates on proposed tax policy changes. In any given year, ITEP fields requests for analyses of policies in 25 or more states. ITEP also works with national partners to provide analyses of federal tax policy proposals. This section highlights reports that use ITEP analyses to make a compelling case for progressive tax reforms.