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We’re done with taxes. (Hooray?) Now it’s time to get caught up on some items that might have gone under your radar with everything else in the news for the past few weeks (or months, or years).
The Taxman Cometh
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It’s income tax season, and while very few of us enjoy sitting down to do our taxes, the outlook is worse this year for many. (Remember that awful tax bill that passed at the end of 2017? Yeah, more on that in a minute.) Fortunately, there are also tax-related avenues of #resistance. Let’s get to it.
Criminal Injustice
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2020 will mark the 10-year anniversary of the publication of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, which explains how the criminal justice system unfairly burdens black people. At the same time, criminal justice reform advocates are calling upon Democratic presidential candidates to make ending mass incarceration a campaign centerpiece. Today isn’t the first time we’re talking about criminal justice reform at MCW, and it won’t be the last. Here’s how to take action this week.