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Barbara Flynn Currie backs expanded EITC

Barbara Flynn Currie backs expanded EITC

Longtime General Assembly reformer writes op-ed targeting ‘effective tool in the battle against poverty’

Ted CoxDecember 23, 2020Reverse 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

Job advocates call for ambitious COVID relief

Job advocates call for ambitious COVID relief

Coalition of workforce, community groups seeks cash stimulus, unemployment extension, expansion of food stamps

Earned Income Tax Credit could provide relief

Earned Income Tax Credit could provide relief

Economic Security for Illinois calls for program expansion after failure of Fair Tax Amendment

Ted CoxNovember 5, 2020Earned 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

Earned Income Tax Credit made easy

Earned Income Tax Credit made easy

State streamlines process to claim tax break for workers making up to $56K

Ted CoxOctober 26, 2020Earned 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

Our neighborhoods need a Fair Tax

Our neighborhoods need a Fair Tax

Flat tax has worsened inequality, segregation in Chicago and across state

Ted CoxOctober 21, 2020Illinois Fair Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Fair Tax Amendment, Illinois Flat Tax, Harish Patel, Dorian Warren, Income Inequality, Working Families, Community Change, Economic Security for Illinois

Earned Income Tax Credit: Not just for working families

Earned Income Tax Credit: Not just for working families

Tax watchdog backs expanding EITC to childless workers, young & old

Ted CoxFebruary 21, 2020Earned Income Tax Credit, Universal Basic Income, Milton Friedman, Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, Illinois EITC, Working Families, Illinois Working Families, Harish Patel, Economic Security for Illinois

One-third of U.S. living paycheck to paycheck

One-third of U.S. living paycheck to paycheck

Even $100,000 earners find themselves chasing payday as household debt, health costs rise

Ted CoxFebruary 17, 2020U.S. Workers, Working Families, Illinois Working Families, Salary Finance, Donald Trump, Wilbert Van Der Klaauw, Dan Macklin, Affordable Care Act, Mike Doherty, Illinois Farm Bureau, Harish Patel, Economic Security for Illinois

Minimum wage, EITC work hand in hand

Minimum wage, EITC work hand in hand

But Earned Income Tax Credit needs more than just outreach to encourage participation

Ted CoxJanuary 23, 2020Minimum Wage, Illinois Minimum Wage, Illinois EITC, Earned Income Tax Credit, Economic Policy Institute, Milton Friedman, Working Families, Economic Security for Illinois, Harish Patel

Money for nothing produces exit to poverty

Money for nothing produces exit to poverty

Aisha Nyandoro’s pilot program Magnolia Mother’s Trust gives $1,000 a month to 20 Mississippi moms

Ted CoxNovember 14, 2019Aisha Nyandoro, Magnolia Mother's Trust, Ameya Pawar, Springboard to Opportunities, Economic Security for Illinois, Ronald Reagan, Andrew Yang, Universal Basic Income, UBI, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Resilient Families Task Force

Earned Income Tax Credit could sway fair tax

Earned Income Tax Credit could sway fair tax

Economic Security for Illinois backs ‘meaningful’ cost-of-living refund as taxpayer relief

Ted CoxMay 14, 2019Harish 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