Tagged With "tax"
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Federal Legislation would reduce poverty & fund caregiving
The Worker Relief and Credit Reform Act, WRCR HR5271, introduced by Reps Gwen Moore (WI) & Marcia Fudge (OH), would expand the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) to make it fully refundable and available to more people, including mothers and other unwaged primary caregivers, and get cash directly into mothers’ and families hands
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Households value public school spending
As we confront the issues about how we are going to rebuild the following study in the Brookings Institution’s Hutchins Roundup might provide an useful argument. David Wessel, Brookings Institution <hutchinsroundup@brookings.edu> January 7, 2021 Households value public school spending How much does local public school spending matter to households? Using data from 1990-2015, Patrick Bayer of Duke, Peter Q. Blair of Harvard, and Kenneth Whaley of University of Houston find that a 1%...