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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
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
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
COVID-19 relief blows holes in UBI myths
Expanded unemployment benefits minimize coronavirus damage, don’t deter return to work — especially in Illinois
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Ted CoxUniversal Basic Income, UBI, Milton Friedman, Allen Sanderson, University of Chicago, Noah Smith, Becker Friedman Institute, U.S. Unemployment, U.S. Unemployment Rate, Illinois Unemployment, Illinois Unemployment Rate, Jesse Rothstein, CARES Act, Heroes Act, Mitch McConnell, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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
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
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
Expand state tax credit, says Chi task force
Earned Income Tax Credit offers statewide method to address poverty, inequality
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Ted CoxWorking Families, Illinois Working Families, Earned-Income Tax Credit, Universal Basic Income, SEIU Local 1, American Red Cross, Tom Balanoff, Celena Roldan, J.B. Pritzker, Rahm Emanuel, Milton Friedman, Allen Sanderson, Ameya Pawar
Universal Basic Income gets a hearing
Chicago forms task force to study UBI and other programs to combat poverty
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