WASHINGTON
- May 4 - On Tuesday, May 8 at 11 am, the Institute for America's Future
will join with Senators Edward M. Kennedy, Barbara Boxer, and Jon
Corzine, to release a new report, "Choosing the Wealthy Over
Children." The report finds that if Congress votes in favor of
President Bush's tax proposal, giving $555 billion in tax
reductions to the people earning over one million a year, America
will lack the resources to do anything significant to address the
needs of its poorest children.
The report, compiled with the assistance of City Policy
Associates, outlines a ten-year investment strategy designed
show how the lives of poor children could be improved if the
$555 billion President Bush proposes to give as tax breaks to
the top one percent of income-earners over the next ten years
were instead spent on programs for children. "Bush ignores
the needs of America's children in order to give a wind-fall
tax return to the wealthiest of all Americans," said Roger Hickey,
Co-Director of the Institute. "We challenge the President --
and any Member of the Senate or House planning to vote for his
tax cuts -- to explain how they can claim there is surplus when
millions of children are raised in poverty, lack health care,
live in unsafe housing, and attend overcrowded schools that
are falling apart."
The report will be released simultaneously by citizen groups in
several states, many in conjunction with the national grassroots
movement, Fair Taxes for All Coalition, to bring attention to the
pressing needs of children at the state and local level.
WHAT:
Release of report, "Choosing the Wealthy Over Children"
WHERE:
Senate Swamp (NE Senate side of the Capitol, on Constitution
Avenue)
WHEN:
11 a.m., Tuesday, May 8
WHO:
Roger Hickey, Co-Director, Institute for America's Future
Senator Edward Kennedy, (MA)
Senator Barbara Boxer, (CA)
Senator Jon Corzine, (NJ)
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