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NEW REPORT: TAXES ARE A WOMAN’S ISSUE

The National Council for Research on Women will release a new report, Taxes Are A Woman’s Issue: Reframing the Debate, at a telephone press conference April 6.

With April 15 approaching, the report release coincides with next week’s House vote on the Budget Resolution. It is a hard-hitting analysis challenging budget proposals that cut funding for education, health care, human services, public safety, and other critical tax-supported programs.

According to the report, current US tax policies have a far-reaching and largely negative impact on women. With Congress crafting yet another budget that will expand tax cuts for the very wealthy and cut vital services that women and children depend on, the new report declares Taxes to be a Woman’s Issue. The report also details how tax policy has actually decreased security – one of the stark lessons of Hurricane Katrina – and forced low and middle income women to pick up an increasing share of the nation’s tax bill while decreasing public services.

AUDIO PRESS CONFERENCE
THURSDAY, APRIL 6
1 P.M. EDT
To reserve, please call Nancy Bennett, (800) 834-1110

Speakers:

Linda Basch, President, The National Council f or Research on Women

Sandra Morgen, co-author of Taxes are a Women’s Issue and Director, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon    

Bonnie Thornton Dill, Professor and Chair, Department of Women’s Studies, University of Maryland and Director of Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity

Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic Security, National Women’s Law Center

The report, published by the Feminist Press, includes “Tax Talk 101,” a primer with basic terms and concepts and a description of the ways women are affected by taxes. It is intended to promote tax and economic literacy to illuminate the relationships among tax collections, government spending, and quality of life.

More information is available online about this report here.

The National Council for Research on Women is a network of more than 100 leading U.S. research, advocacy, and policy centers with a growing global reach. The Council harnesses the resources of its network to ensure fully informed debate, policies, and practices to build a more inclusive and equitable world for women and girls.