Federal lawmakers ranging from Sherrod Brown to Paul Ryan have proposed expanding the earned income tax credit (EITC) for childless workers for years without enacting...
The earned income tax credit (EITC) is a highly effective policy for fighting poverty that has garnered widespread praise from both Democrats and Republicans. In...
Some low- and middle-income families in Colorado, Minnesota, New Mexico, and North Dakota are facing state income tax hikes. And the larger the family, generally...
Election Day 2018 has a bumper crop of voter initiatives on state taxes, ranging from new levies on carbon, payroll, motor fuels, marijuana, soda, and...
Seattle is currently having a contentious debate over a proposed "head tax" to fund more affordable housing and services for its large and growing homeless...
Philadelphia’s tax on drinks with a sugar-based sweetener or artificial sugar substitute is not bringing in as much revenue as originally projected. As a result,...
Taxes are front and center in the only two gubernatorial races this year. The Virginia campaign centers on the Republican candidate’s individual income tax cut...
President Trump’s proposed 2018 budget would result in deep cuts to federal payments to states. Federal funds currently account for nearly a third of state...
The Trump administration is focusing on infrastructure this week. In a series of events, the president and his staff will promote their $1 trillion investment...
If the Trump administration ends legal marijuana sales in America, an idea Attorney General Jeff Sessions supports , states collectively could lose billions of dollars...
Still recovering from the Great Recession and grappling with troubling fiscal trends , state budgets are already causing headaches for governors and legislators across the...
