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Gottheimer Helps Unveil New Bipartisan Legislation to Fully Restore the SALT Deduction, Provide New Jersey Families a Tax Cut
By JAMES ADAMS
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January 31, 2021 at 3:43 PM
WASHINGTON, D.C. Today, U.S. Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5) joined a bipartisan group of six other Members in the House to introduce the SALT Deductibility Act, a bipartisan bill to fully restore the full State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction. The proposal would allow taxpayers to fully deduct their state and local taxes on their federal income returns, end double taxation, and give families in Northern New Jersey a tax cut. In 2017, the deduction was gutted and capped at $10,000 by the Moocher States and resulted in a tax hike for many middle-class families.
Push to reopen schools could leave out millions of students
If President Joe Biden lands his goal of $130 billion for schools, millions of students might still have to keep learning from home
President
Joe Biden says he wants most schools serving kindergarten through eighth grade to reopen by late April, but even if that happens, it is likely to leave out millions of students, many of them minorities in urban areas.
“We’re going to see kids fall further and further behind, particularly low-income students of color,” said
Shavar Jeffries, president of Democrats for Education Reform. “There’s potentially a generational level of harm that students have suffered from being out of school for so long.”
In this Sept. 29, 2020 file photo, a teacher leads her students into an elementary school in the Brooklyn borough of New York as hundreds of thousands of elementary school students are heading back to classrooms in the city. (AP/Mark Lennihan)
Push to Reopen California Schools Could Leave Out Students By Associated Press California
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President Joe Biden says he wants most schools serving kindergarten through eighth grade to reopen by late April, but even if that happens, it is likely to leave out millions of students, many of them minorities in urban areas.
“We’re going to see kids fall further and further behind, particularly low-income students of color,” said Shavar Jeffries, president of Democrats for Education Reform. “There’s potentially a generational level of harm that students have suffered from being out of school for so long.”
FILE - In this Dec. 7, 2020, file photo, Sheila Melendez, left, completes a form granting permission for random COVID-19 testing for students as she arrives with her daughter Jayceon, center, at P.S. 134 Henrietta Szold Elementary School in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File) Previous Next
Sunday, January 31, 2021 10:30 am
Push to reopen schools could leave out millions of students
GEOFF MULVIHILL, ADRIAN SAINZ and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN | Associated Press
President Joe Biden says he wants most schools serving kindergarten through eighth grade to reopen by late April, but even if that happens, it is likely to leave out millions of students, many of them minorities in urban areas.