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                Becky Sweger
            
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                NPP Intern
            
            
        
    
    
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            Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net, 
        
            Transparency & Data
        
    
                        
                    
                    The food stamps program (SNAP) continues to grow, even as the employment picture improves. Time for more SNAP cuts?
    
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                NPP Intern
            
            
        
    
    
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            Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net
        
    
                        
                    
                    At the beginning of November, more than 47 million low-income Americans saw their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits reduced.
    
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                Robin Claremont
            
            
        
    
    
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            Budget Process
        
    
                        
                    
                    As the Dec. 13 deadline for a budget deal approaches, some sources are saying prospects for a deal may be growing. Demand Congress do its job to avoid yet another government shutdown.
    
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                NPP Intern
            
            
        
    
    
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                    After we published a blog piece on the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction (HMID) this summer, several people wrote in to tell us how this tax break affected their lives.
    
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                Becky Sweger
            
            
        
    
    
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                    If you've read our FAQ, you know what tax reform is. But why should you care?
    
        By 
        
            
                Mattea Kramer
            
            
        
    
    
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                    A new poll just released by Americans for Tax Fairness found that 65 percent of voters across the country want the top 2 percent to pay more in taxes
    
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                Derrick Crowe
            
            
        
    
    
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            Budget Process
        
    
                        
                    
                    News reports this morning indicate that the congressional budget conference committee is making little progress in negotiations toward a compromise spending plan for 2014. Let's give them a nudge in the direction of the people's priorities: Sign our petition to the budget committee and ask legislators to listen to the ...
    
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                Mattea Kramer
            
            
        
    
    
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                    Imagine that tax day rolls around and – instead of paying any taxes at all – Uncle Sam sends you a check for millions or even billions of dollars.
    
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                Becky Sweger
            
            
        
    
    
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                    Perhaps these three outrageous numbers on corporate tax reform explain why 80 percent of Americans want tax breaks for big corporations closed.
    
        By 
        
            
                Becky Sweger
            
            
        
    
    
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            Transparency & Data
        
    
                        
                    
                    We don't have a complete picture of where our tax dollars are going or who gets them. The DATA Act is part of the fix to this problem.