The $10 billion in funding comes largely from the American Rescue Plan, the sweeping coronavirus aid package passed by Congress this month, and will be used by the Department of Health and Human Services to reach communities of color, rural areas, low-income populations and other underserved com...
The Biden campaign has highly specific plans on how to do this. It's called Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing. It's a HUD regulation. It was written during the Obama administration. Biden's advisers plan to enforce it. They will cut off critical Federal funds for municipalities unless tho...
President Biden's ambitious agenda comes with a major price tag: In the first 100 days of his term, Mr. Biden's three major initiatives — the American Rescue Plan, which has been signed into law, and the proposed American Jobs Plan and the American Families Plan — have a combined cost...
The Biden coronavirus relief plan would boost after-tax income for the lowest-income Americans by about 20%, an analysis from the Tax Policy Center found. The bill would give low-income Americans more benefits, and the highest earners fewer, than the 2017 Republican tax law. U.S....
Can they prevent suburbs from having roads if they don't build low-income housing projects? Video Until existing civil rights law, a plan like this only works if the feds can prove that your roads are somehow racist. And that's exactly the case they've been making, right out in the ...
President Joe Biden proposed his$6 trillion budgeton Friday, outlining his plan to rebuild America's infrastructure. It focuses on funding affordable housing, education and health care — while raising capital gains taxes on high-earning households. ...
So, my plan is to make sure that corporations begin to pay their fair share. And it used to be 35 percent. We cut it down to 21 percent. I think we should be paying 28 percent. There's going to be a real fight on that, but we should be paying more than 21 percent. ...
To encourage home ownership, the plan would create a $15,000 federal tax credit to help low-and middle-income families cover down payments on their first homes. It also pledges to build 1.5 million new homes and public housing units in hopes of addressing the affordable housing crisis that ...
The Biden plan also would expand the EITC to include more low-wage workers without kids, as well as older Americans. On average, the expansion would cut taxes by $800 each for 19 million individuals and couples who are working, the White House said. That would include 2 million workers ov...