With President-elect Trump preparing to return to the White House in 2025, it’s worth examining how his proposed policies could impact ...

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Select a state by clicking on the map or choosing one from the dropdown. Click on your state for details. Forty-four states’ tax systems exacerbate income inequality. When the lowest-income households ...

Excessive local government reliance on fines and fees is tied to persistent barriers to economic security. Policies that lift these ...

Matt Gardner is a senior fellow at ITEP where he has worked since 1998. He previously served as ITEP’s executive director from 2006 to 2016. Matt’s work focuses on federal, state and local tax systems ...

Virtually every state’s tax system is fundamentally unfair, requiring a much greater share of income from middle- and low-income families than from wealthy families. Nationwide, low-income Americans ...

The federal, state, and local distributional analyses and revenue estimates that ITEP produces are based on data from the ITEP Tax Microsimulation Model. The initial version of the ITEP Model was ...

The United States is exceptional among wealthy nations in its high rate of child poverty. Even more so, the U.S. is known for its high level of deep child poverty—children in families with incomes ...

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Amy Hanauer, ITEP’s Executive Director, provides vision and leadership to bring accurate research and data to tax policy conversations. ITEP’s research shows that more progressive and adequate tax ...

Lawmakers seeking to reduce or eliminate income and estate taxes frequently claim that doing so will result in an economic boom. Supply-side economist Arthur Laffer is often enlisted to bolster this ...