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Juan Carlos Ordóñez

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Congress knows how to slash child poverty. It just needs to do it.

By: - November 21, 2022

It needs to reinstate the enhanced version of the Child Tax Credit, which expired in January If you could prevent millions of children from falling back into poverty, would you? Most of us, I imagine, would answer “yes” without hesitation. But not Congress. For nearly a year, lawmakers in Washington, D.C., have dithered as the […]

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Free, simple tax filing puts interest of Americans above corporate profits 

By: - August 24, 2022

Paying taxes is our civic duty. The government’s duty is to make it as easy and inexpensive as possible for us to pay our taxes. But for too long, Congress has failed to uphold this responsibility, favoring instead corporations that profit from our need to file tax returns. A bill recently introduced in Congress would fix this problem.