The Impact of the Trump Tax Cuts on Women and Families
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View ArticleFamily Tax Credits
Family tax credits, which are designed to help low-wage workers boost their earnings and meet their expenses, can make a huge difference in the lives of women and families. Tax credits can be worth...
View ArticleThe EITC and the Refundable Child Tax Credit Are Critical to Women’s Economic...
Refundable tax credits for low- and moderate-income working families, including the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit (CTC), provide a significant economic boost to women and...
View ArticleBy The Numbers: Data on Key Programs for the Well-Being of Women & Their...
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View ArticleImproving the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit Would Help Working Families...
Child care is fundamental to the economic security of women and families, but it is out of reach for too many. The federal Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit helps offset child care costs, but only...
View ArticleWant to Make the Economy Better for Women? Pass Tax Relief.
Today, Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced the Working Families Tax Relief Act – a critical piece of legislation that would begin...
View ArticleHow Tax Credits Can Help Domestic Violence Survivors
This is part of an ongoing series “Help More Domestic Violence Survivors Survive By”. Domestic violence (DV) occurs across the socio-economic spectrum, but low-income survivors face unique challenges...
View ArticleMaryland Improves Its Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit to Help More Families
Since the wildly unpopular 2017 tax scam passed, replete with massive tax breaks for the rich and big corporations but very little for the rest of us, tax policy has given working families little to...
View ArticleThe Working Families Tax Relief Act: Making The Tax Code Better Support Women...
The tax code in many ways reinforces inequality – a trend that was only exacerbated by the 2017 tax law’s giveaways to the wealthy and large corporations. But the tax code can also help families make...
View ArticleMaking The Tax Code Better Support Women and Families
On April 10, 2019, Senators Sherrod Brown, Ron Wyden, Dick Durbin, and Michael Bennet introduced an important piece of legislation that would substantially increase and expand tax credits for working...
View ArticleReckoning With the Hidden Rules of Gender in the Tax Code: How Low Taxes on...
This report, co-authored by Katy Milani (Roosevelt Institute, https://rooseveltinstitute.org), Melissa Boteach (NWLC), Steph Sterling (Roosevelt Institute), and Sarah Hassmer (NWLC), discusses how...
View ArticleA Tax Code for the Rest of Us: A Framework & Recommendations for Advancing...
This report, co-authored with Indivar Dutta-Gupta, Kali Grant, Rachel Black, and Funke Adenronmu (Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality, www.georgetownpoverty.org), examines how, while the U.S....
View ArticleThe Faulty Foundations of the Tax Code: Gender and Racial Bias in Our Tax Laws
This report, co-authored by law professor Ariel Jurow Kleiman (University of San Diego School of Law), Amy Matsui, and Estelle Mitchell (NWLC), examines the outdated assumptions and gender and racial...
View ArticleGender and the Tax Code
Tax Justice Is Gender Justice The tax code sets the rules that shape our economy, reflecting and perpetuating notions of who and what our society values. It’s an opportunity to fight inequality. But...
View ArticleTwo Years Later: The Impact of the 2017 Tax Law on Women & Families
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 has exacerbated economic inequality, to the detriment of women and people of color. Indeed, the 2017 tax law delivered the bulk of its benefits to high-income,...
View ArticleThe Trump Tax Law Is Still A Bad Deal for Women and Families.
Congressional negotiators reached an agreement on a spending deal earlier this week, which was a mixed bag for women and families. Though Congress agreed to change some tax provisions during...
View ArticleFive Reasons We Need to Tax the Patriarchy
As we close out the decade, ‘tis the season for lists that reflect back on the last 10 years. This year we – along with our partners at the Groundwork Collaborative, Roosevelt Institute, and Georgetown...
View ArticleTrump’s Budget Lays Out His Blueprint for Women and Families – And It’s...
The administration released its FY2021 budget proposal, presenting a unique opportunity to look at the President’s priorities and values in one place. And while it’s not surprising, it’s important to...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Response: Getting Flexible Child Care Funding to the States
COVID-19 is highlighting and exacerbating the deep gaps in our child care infrastructure. These gaps have long existed due to significant underinvestment. As we hear stories about how parents are...
View ArticleCOVID-19 “Recovery Rebates” in the CARES Act
H.R. 748, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act’(the ‘‘CARES Act’’), provides for direct payments to individuals, called “recovery rebates,” This factsheet contains information about:...
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