Sadie Bograd

Aug 9, 2023 | taxpolicycenter.org | Sadie Bograd |Nikhita Airi

New jobs data show while private employment fully recovered over a year ago, state and local public employment remains below its pre-pandemic peak. Overall, total state and local government employment is still 0.1 percent lower than in March 2020. But not all government jobs are on the same trajectory. State-level education employment exceeds its pre-pandemic totals, while non-education state employment has not fully recovered. There is a similar split at the local level.

Aug 5, 2023 | taxpolicycenter.org | Sadie Bograd |Steven Rosenthal

In the United States’ voluntary tax system, taxpayers are responsible for correctly reporting their incomes to the IRS, rather than having the government determine their taxes owed from the outset. Information returns are the foundation of that voluntary tax system. They help taxpayers prepare their tax returns and allow the IRS to verify whether returns are correct and complete.

Jul 24, 2023 | taxpolicycenter.org | Lillian Hunter |Sadie Bograd |Aravind Boddupalli

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan (D) recently proposed raising the city’s tax on vacant or undeveloped land while reducing taxes on buildings by 30 percent. The hope is his proposed land value tax (LVT) — that is, a tax on the value of land instead of what’s built on it — can help address some of the city’s economic woes, such as deteriorating neighborhoods and high property taxes.

Apr 3, 2023 | features.yaledailynews.com | Sadie Bograd

Robert Heimer, a Yale professor of epidemiology who has studied harm reduction for over 30 years, said the people who are most at risk of overdose death are those who have just gone through an abstinence-only treatment program — even more so than people who receive no treatment at all. Abstinence-only programs have high relapse rates, but patients tend to feel ashamed about their continued drug use, leading them to use alone.