Preparing for the post-election tax debate.

Although last year’s temporary expansion of the child tax credit (CTC) dramatically reduced child poverty across the US, government outreach efforts struggled to connect immigrant families with their tax benefits.

Earmarking tax dollars comes with a price, giving today’s voters the power to decide how tomorrow’s state tax dollars will be spent. Is that power worth it?

President Biden’s plan to raise taxes on very high-income households died in Congress. But the idea of lives on. Initiatives on November ballots in California...

Senate passes stopgap spending bill, House will vote today.

Getting ready to get out of town.

In 2021, Congress enacted sweeping legislation that temporarily cut child poverty nearly in half . A key feature was the expanded child tax credit (CTC),...

Thanks to surging tax revenues and an unprecedented infusion of federal aid, many states cut taxes over the past two years by lowering individual income tax rates, expanding tax credits, or sending one-time checks to residents. But there is another way states can use these funds: reduce or eliminate some local criminal legal fines and fees.