Census Bureau updates on disability community stakeholders
Deborah Stein,
October 15, 2024
We reported to you earlier, the U.S. Census Bureau met with disability community stakeholders September 30 in the D.C. metro area to better understand challenges in data availability and access for their community. The meeting brought together federal agency staff, disability stakeholders and community representatives, data users, and disability advocates.
24 states with 30 million taxpayers to join IRS Direct File next year
David Elliot,
October 11, 2024
Earlier this month, the IRS and the Department of Treasury announced that Direct File will be expanded so more than 30 million taxpayers in 24 states will be eligible in the 2025 tax season. The announcement comes after Direct File launched earlier this year with a pilot program that began with 12 states and more than 140,000 taxpayers successfully completing their taxes.
Democracy at Stake: Dispatch from the Nuns on the Bus and Friends
Deborah Weinstein,
October 8, 2024
On Monday evening hundreds of people gathered at the Detroit Gesu Catholic Church for a Town Hall with the Nuns on the Bus and Friends – a cross-country bus tour on the theme “Vote Our Future.” They were asked to name out issues most important to them in the upcoming election. I’m one of the Friends riding the bus – not a nun, but honored to be invited because of the close cooperation of the Coalition on Human Needs, which I direct, and NETWORK Advocates for Catholic Social Justice, the sponsor of the bus tour and a member of CHN.
Amid questions, Census Bureau, advocates for disability community to meet
David Elliot,
September 27, 2024
Census Bureau analysts, policy experts, and disability rights advocates will convene next week to discuss whether or how Bureau officials should change the way disabled Americans are counted. At issue is a change in the methodology used in the way people with disabilities are tallied in the American Community Survey (ACS) – one that advocates fear could result in a severe undercount.
Advocates speak out with tax fight to come in 2025
David Elliot,
September 20, 2024
Diane and Michael Killen are small business owners who live in western Colorado and have operated a small video production company for 20 years. Together they hire local people, serve local clients, and help fuel the local economy. In retrospect, they are not fond of the 2017 Trump tax cut.
