Ilana Novick
Ilana Novick is a contributing writer to the PolicyShop blog at Demos,a progressive think tank based in New York City.
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Views Wednesday, August 22, 2018 EPA Coal Plan Could Cause Up to 1,400 Premature Deaths Annually (and Trump's EPA Knows It But Doesn't Care) The Environmental Protection Agency released new rules regulating pollution levels for coal-burning power plants this week, and buried beneath its complex policies is a troubling statistic. As The New York Times reported Tuesday, “The plan would increase carbon emissions and lead to up to 1,400... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 13, 2013 State Tax Systems Need to Become More Progressive, Not Less State tax systems, according to a new report from the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy, take a far larger share of income from their lowest income residents than they do from the wealthy, exacerbating income inequality within and between states, encouraging the wealthy to move to low tax states, and even worse, threatening the effectiveness of federal and state programs designed to ease the tax burden for the poorest families. Read more |