Inequality & Tax Policy

Congress should be looking at how to strengthen – not undermine – our federal anti-poverty programs. Tax policy can be used a force for good, but this new framework will make things worse, not better for millions of families.

Yesterday the House of Representatives passed a budget resolution that threatens to slash critical anti-poverty programs while fast-tracking massive tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations.

With its first federal budget proposal, the White House has taken aim at families struggling to put food on the table, kids around the world seeking an education, and millions more people facing poverty. Proposing massive funding cuts to effective anti-poverty programs, the budget jeopardizes the futures of people across the country and around the world. Now Congress takes up the process.

It falls to Congress to reject dangerous White House proposal.

In February, House Speaker Paul Ryan formed a Task Force on Poverty, Opportunity, and Upward Mobility to help combat poverty in the United States. As members of Congress on both sides of the aisle are taking interest in addressing poverty, what they decide could make a huge difference in the lives of low-income Americans – for better or for worse.

Today Congress made permanent critical provisions of pro-work tax credits that lift millions of Americans out of poverty every year.

RESULTS Expert on Poverty Maxine Thomas published an op-ed in The Hill about how tax credits like The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit (CTC) help her family each year.

Prioritize tax policies that focus on working families

Support policies that increase access to housing and reduce the racial wealth divide

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Guest Speaker: Emanuel Nieves, Senior Policy Manager, Prosperity Now

April 2019 Webinar Recording with Audio Transcript