Jobs and the Economy
State-by-State Numbers: Effective Jobs Program to End September 30
“An emergency jobs program through which 37 states have provided subsidized jobs for nearly 250,000 otherwise unemployed parents and youth — helping families, businesses, and communities across America weather the recession — will end September 30 unless the Senate joins the House in voting to extend it.” Read more
State-specific press releases:
Colorado | Connecticut | Illinois | Minnesota | Ohio | Pennsylvania | South Carolina
Issues Facing Congress
High-Income Would Benefit From Extension of “Middle-Class” Tax Cuts
“[H]igh-income people actually receive much larger benefits in dollar terms from the so-called ‘middle-class tax cuts’ than middle-class people do.”
Related:
- Extending High-Income Tax Cuts Would Benefit Few Small Businesses
- Blog post: Senate Vote on Tax Cuts an Ominous Warning
- Letting High-Income Tax Cuts Expire Is Proper Response To Nation’s Short- and Long-Term Challenges
- More:
- Federal Tax Analyses
New From the Center
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Podcast: Upcoming Debate on Middle-Class and High-Income Tax Cuts
August 31, 2010
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Food Stamps On-Line: A Review of State Government Food Stamp Websites
Updated August 26, 2010
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Podcast: State Budget Crisis Continues Despite Surpluses
August 24, 2010
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States Should Structure Insurance Exchanges to Minimize Adverse Selection
August 17, 2010
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Podcast: Social Security Reduces Poverty
August 17, 2010
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Center in the News
Making hard choices on the budget
Ezra Klein's Washington Post blog
September 1, 2010
How to fix Social Security in one graph
Ezra Klein's Washington Post blog
August 31, 2010
Video Clip: CNN Europe cites the Center on State Budget Gap Data
CNN Europe
August 31, 2010
Among Democrats, economic pressures are changing tax-cut dynamics
Washington Post
August 26, 2010
Bush Tax Cuts For The Rich Must Go
Financial Times
August 24, 2010
A Real Debate on Taxes
New York Times Editorial
August 23, 2010
Do the Rich Need *Bigger* Tax Cuts?
The New Republic's Citizen Cohn blog
August 23, 2010
Grogan: Don't tamper with Social Security
News-Ledger (Springfield, IL)
August 22, 2010
Unwelcome truth: We need taxes
Boston Globe
