MacKenzie Scott stormed the philanthropy world last year with $5.7 billion in unrestricted donations to hundreds of charities. The seven- and eight-figure gifts were the largest many had ever received.
Many nonprofits that received money are giving some of it to local chapters or smaller groups they support, extending the impact of Scott’s giving even closer to the grass roots.
Biden proposes hiking taxes on richest Americans to fund universal pre-k, paid leave, and more
The president s tax plan which omits an estate tax increase that he promised on the campaign trail was devised to cover the cost of a significant expansion of the nation s tattered social safety net.
President Joe Biden on Wednesday released a $1.8 trillion proposal
that would hike taxes on the wealthiest Americans and close loopholes to fund free preschool for three- and four-year-olds, paid family and
medical leave, an extension of the boosted child tax credit, investments in affordable child care, and other domestic priorities.
The American Families Plan, the second prong of Biden’s infrastructure
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Rozetta Dotson worked two jobs to scrape together the money to pay down a delinquent tax debt on the Kansas City, Kansas, home she owns with her husband, Ricky. Then the pandemic hit, she lost her second job and Ricky got COVID-19.
The Black homeowners kept paying what they could toward the taxes while waiting to talk to a judge about a new payment agreement. Then she found out her house was up for auction online.
“We just felt like it was a scam, like they were trying to take our property and my husband said we felt like we were targeted, you know, because we are living in a predominantly Black neighborhood and they were doing everything they could to cause us to lose our house,” she said.