President Donald Trump marked Social Security’s 90th birthday on Thursday afternoon, celebrating his administration’s commitment to the program even as it remains in dire need of a fix.

A growing number of blue cities and states across the country, from Washington state to Rhode Island, are looking at ways to wring more revenue from their richest taxpayers.

The Trump megabill hands the richest 1% a trillion-dollar windfall while gutting funding for health care, education, and ...

Progressive organizations note that relatively brief exemption periods, usually limited to a week or even just a weekend, deliver extremely modest relief to consumers, often helping poor households ...

The rich will get richer from President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill’s tax provisions – but California’s millionaires won’t get as much of a benefit as their counterparts in most other states.

Every state, and the federal government, levies taxes on both gasoline and diesel fuel. These “gas taxes” are the most… ...

Last week, President Trump fired the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics in apparent retaliation for weak jobs numbers. The move drew sharp criticism for spooking investors and weakening ...

Mississippi policymakers this year took a big step to worsen the state’s racial income and wealth divides by passing a radical plan to eventually eliminate the state’s income tax.

Maryland is taking aim at income and racial disparities through a revised personal income tax. By raising taxes on high earners and cutting them for most households across racial and ethnic lines, the ...

Recently-signed federal legislation will cut taxes for the wealthy. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) analysis of the Senate Reconciliation Bill—promoted as the One Big Beautiful ...

Vanessa Woods is a Summer 2025 Graduate Intern supporting the Cross Cutting Research team. She is a Master of Public Policy candidate (Class of 2026) at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public ...

As states prepare for the revenue loss and disruption resulting from the federal tax bill, tax policy is being considered in legislatures across the country.