Tax Cuts Should Focus on Need not Age

February 8, 2017 by MDCEP
Position Statement Opposing House Bill 195 Given before the House Ways and Means Committee Across-the-board tax cuts on retirement income read more

Tax Cuts Should Focus on Need not Age

February 8, 2017 by MDCEP
Position Statement Opposing Senate Bill 238 Given before the Senate Budget and Tax Committee Across-the-board tax cuts on retirement income read more

Business Property Tax Giveaway Takes Away Local Choice, Won’t Create Jobs

February 8, 2017 by MDCEP
Position Statement Opposing Senate Bill 239 Given before the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee The proposal to eliminate personal property read more

Maryland’s State Tax Policies Reduce Some Inequality but Have a Long Way to Go

February 7, 2017 by Ellen Hutton
State tax policies often are a culprit in increasing income inequality. Maryland now ranks 24th in the nation for income read more

Families Dressed as Superheroes Lobby for sick-leave bill – The Baltimore Sun

February 2, 2017 by MDCEP
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Early Thursday morning, moms and children gathered inside the Miller Senate building at tables littered with read more

Analysis Finds Governor’s Sick Leave Bill Protects 240,000 Fewer Maryland Workers

February 2, 2017 by Kali Schumitz
A new analysis from the Maryland Center on Economic Policy (MDCEP) finds that the original earned sick days bill, known read more

Healthy Working Families Act Protects Twice as Many Workers as Governor’s Proposal

February 2, 2017 by Christopher Meyer
Each time they get sick or need to care for a sick child, more than 700,000 working Marylanders are still read more

How Immigration Policy Shapes Maryland’s Communities, Economy

January 31, 2017 by MDCEP
The Maryland we know today exists because of people who came here, and continue to come here, from around the read more

Proposed Budget Moves Maryland Backwards by Cutting Key Investments in Health, Education, Housing

January 24, 2017 by MDCEP
As a whole, the governor’s proposed budget for fiscal 2018 fails to make the investments we need to continue to read more

Maryland casinos are pumping out billions for education. So why are there school budget deficits? – The Baltimore Sun

January 21, 2017 by MDCEP
In the seven years since the first of Maryland’s six casinos opened, they have pumped $1.7 billion into the state’s read more
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