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Tax themed monopoly board shows a rich person running away with money bags, leaving a working family at square one
Our Taxes Explained series aims to make tax policy clear and accessible. We want people to know what’s at stake and understand how Trump’s tax cuts are designed specifically to benefit the ultra-rich and corporations.
Blog
Taifa Smith Butler

Tax Code Should Help Families Achieve Economic Security and Mobility

Policy Briefs
Eliana Golding

U.S. Tax Code Widens the Racial Wealth Divide

Policy Briefs
Eliana Golding
Daniella Zessoules

Lowering the corporate tax rate will cost the country at least $522 billion over 10 years, money that should be invested in public goods that benefit us all, not further enriching the already wealthy.

Policy Briefs
Eliana Golding

Today, congressional Republicans are pushing tax reform proposals that would cost the country over $5 trillion and would likely widen the racial wealth gap and slow economic growth.

Policy Briefs
Eliana Golding
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Microphones and recording devices gathered around a person
A response to the Trump Administration's closing of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), an essential way to safeguard consumers against financial injustice.
Press release/statement
Taifa Smith Butler
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Bus manufacturer workers under the hood of a bus
A successful union drive at a bus manufacturing company demonstrates how employers listen to their workers much better when their public funding is on the line.
Blog
Nick Wertsch

In a fair tax system, everyone pays their fair share, no one pays more than they can afford, and the government raises enough money to fund public goods that benefit us all, like education, housing, transportation, and health care. But the current tax code is inequitable.

Policy Briefs
Eliana Golding
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Image accompanying an opinion article titled 'Progressives Won’t Help the Working Class by Abandoning Marginalized Groups' by Taifa Butler and Carol Lautier, published by Demos. It shows a crowd of demonstrators sitting closely together, many wearing masks and raising fists in a sign of solidarity.
Leaders must reject false choices rooted in the idea that social and economic advancement is a zero-sum game or that working-class people must spar over scraps while all the spoils go to the elite few.
In the media
Taifa Smith Butler
Carol Lautier, Ph.D.

Discover how state and local policies can effectively protect workers' rights to organize and bargain collectively. This brief examines approaches to worker protection through federal funding opportunities and provides real-world examples of successful policy implementation by workers and

Policy Briefs
Nick Wertsch