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Posts tagged Earned Income Tax Credit
Barbara Flynn Currie backs expanded EITC
Longtime General Assembly reformer writes op-ed targeting ‘effective tool in the battle against poverty’
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Ted CoxReverse Income Tax, Earned Income Tax Credit, Earned Income Credit, Illinois Earned Income Tax Credit, Barbara Flynn Currie, Richard Nixon, Milton Friedman, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, MAP Grants, Family Caregivers, Dick Durbin, Ram Villivalam, Economic Security for Illinois
Sens. Durbin, Villivalam back unpaid caregivers
Earned Income Tax Credit expansion sought to recognize ‘the reality of family’
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Ted CoxDick Durbin, Ram Villivalam, Earned Income Tax Credit, Earned Income Credit, Unpaid Caregivers, Working Families, Krystal Peters, Dianne Munevar, NORC, University of Chicago, Illinois Public Interest Research Group, Abe Scarr, Sherrod Brown
Rep. Mah: Springfield partisan divide exaggerated, but not on taxes
Fair Tax failure could lead to tax hike combined with new exemptions
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Ted CoxTheresa Mah, Illinois Political Divide, Urban vs. Rural, Fair Tax Amendment, Illinois House Progressive Caucus, Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, Southern Illinois University, Illinois Fair Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, COVID-19 Relief, Coronavirus Relief, Earned Income Tax Credit, Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community, Tammy Duckworth, Pat Quinn, Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, Illinois Farm Bureau, Adopt-a-Legislator
Earned Income Tax Credit could provide relief
Economic Security for Illinois calls for program expansion after failure of Fair Tax Amendment
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Ted CoxEarned Income Tax Credit, Illinois EITC, Economic Security for Illinois, Harish Patel, Fair Tax Amendment, Illinois Fair Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Milton Friedman, Negative Income Tax, J.B. Pritzker
Driving out payday lenders
Secretary of State offices seem made to order to provide much-needed banking services
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Ted CoxEarned Income Tax Credit, Public Banking, Illinois Secretary of State, Illinois Driver's License Facilities, FDIC, CARES Act, Payday Lenders, U.S. Postal Service, Department of Homeland Security, Mehrsa Baradaran, J.B. Pritzker
Earned Income Tax Credit made easy
State streamlines process to claim tax break for workers making up to $56K
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Ted CoxEarned Income Tax Credit, Illinois Earned Income Tax Credit, Earned Income Credit, Illinois Department of Revenue, Milton Friedman, David Harris, Illinois Cost of Living Refund Coalition, Harish Patel, Economic Security for Illinois, J.B. Pritzker, Kim Drew, Heartland Alliance, Meegan Dugan Bassett, New America
Mayors back Universal Basic Income
Mayors for a Guaranteed Income send letter urging ‘a policy solution that is as bold as it is innovative and as simple as it is ambitious’
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Ted CoxUniversal Basic Income, Guaranteed Income, Martin Luther King, Mayors for a Guaranteed Income, Michael Tubbs, UBI, Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration, Chokwe Antar Lumumba, Aisha Nyandoro, Magnolia Mother's Trust, Springboard to Opportunities, Eric Garcetti, Melvin Carter, Keisha Lance Bottoms, Aja Brown, Ras Baraka, Earned Income Tax Credit, Andrew Yang, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 Disparities
Panel mulls expanded Earned Income Tax Credit, affordable housing
EITC might go to young adults, immigrant workers
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Ted CoxEarned Income Tax Credit, Illinois Affordable Housing, Heather Steans, Emanuel Chris Welch, David Harris, Illinois Department of Revenue, Milton Friedman, Amber Wilson, Lisa Christensen Gee, Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, Michael Zalewski, Delia Ramirez, Rachel Rhodes, National Equity Fund, Allison Clements, Illinois Housing Council, Bob Palmer, Housing Action Illinois
One-third of Ill. households struggle to pay bills
United Way’s ALICE report finds 12 percent in poverty, double that in financial hardship
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Ted CoxTerri Bryant, United Way of Illinois, United Way of Champaign County, ALICE, Kimberly Lightford, Celina Villanueva, United Way of Metro Chicago, Kimberlee Guenther, Earned Income Tax Credit, Working Families, Illinois Working Families, Working Poor, Illinois Early Childhood Development, J.B. Pritzker, Benefits Cliff, Don Villar, Chicago Federation of Labor
Earned Income Tax Credit: Not just for working families
Tax watchdog backs expanding EITC to childless workers, young & old
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Minimum wage, EITC work hand in hand
But Earned Income Tax Credit needs more than just outreach to encourage participation
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Pawar-Sanderson II: The Wealth Tax
U. of C. debate pits ‘unfettered capitalism’ against ‘disingenuous ruse’ to soak rich
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Ted CoxAmeya Pawar, Allen Sanderson, Wealth Tax, Thomas Piketty, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Income Inequality, Donald Trump, Minimum Wage, $15 Minimum Wage, Milton Friedman, Earned Income Tax Credit, Reverse Income Tax, Universal Basic Income, Andrew Yang, Ken Griffin, J.B. Pritzker, Illinois Fair Tax, Graduated Income Tax, Progressive Income Tax
Almost half of workforce locked in low-wage jobs
53 million people work at jobs with a median salary of $18,000, says new study from Brookings Institution
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Earned Income Tax Credit for Chicago?
New study explores six proposals that would benefit up to 1 million working families; Lightfoot receptive if noncommittal
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Ted CoxEarned Income Tax Credit, Universal Basic Income, Ameya Pawar, Harish Patel, Chicago Resilient Families Task Force, Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, Milton Friedman, Chicago Earned Income Tax Credit, Chicago UBI, Allen Sanderson, Lisa Christensen Gee, Working Families, Illinois Working Families, Chicago Working Families
Panel debates Universal Basic Income
First we have to confront our biases, then we have to trust those in need to know what’s best for themselves
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Ted CoxUniversal Basic Income, Earned Income Tax Credit, Ebony Scott, Family Independence Initiative, Lauren Burns-Coady, Jain Family Institute, Jain Family Institute Guaranteed Income Initiative, Ameya Pawar, Metropolitan Planning Council, Milton Friedman, Martin Luther King, Lori Lightfoot, Chicago DFSS
Feed the hungry, create jobs
Food-stamp study finds impact especially strong during Great Recession in rural communities
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Earned Income Tax Credit could sway fair tax
Economic Security for Illinois backs ‘meaningful’ cost-of-living refund as taxpayer relief
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Ted CoxHarish Patel, Economic Security for Illinois, Chicago Resilient Families Task Force, Earned Income Tax Credit, Illinois Earned Income Tax Credit, Illinois EITC, Universal Basic Income, Rahm Emanuel, Ameya Pawar, Allen Sanderson, J.B. Pritzker, Maurice West, Working Families, Illinois Working Families
Health varies widely by county
Monroe County near St. Louis is healthiest, while Alexander County to south and Vermillion County to east among worst
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