Tax & Budget

Breaking Down The Budgets

Breaking Down The Budgets

Rep. Paul Ryan and Sen. Patty Murray have released their budgets for the next ten years.

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States Can't Afford to Extend Bush-Era Tax Cuts for Wealthy Few

States Can't Afford Tax Cuts for Wealthy Few

New state-by-state reports show how competing tax plans would affect vital services.

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President's FY 2014 Budget

President's FY 2014 Budget

NWLC has analyzed President Obama's 2014 budget's effects on programs and policies important to women and families.

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Federal Budget
Paying Their Fair Share
FY 2014 Budget

Highlights

Fact Sheet | What Extra Tax Breaks for the Richest Americans Cost Women and Families

April 26, 2013

This fact sheet explains what tax breaks for the richest American taxpayers cost women and families. 

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Fact Sheet | What Offshore Corporate Tax Loopholes Cost Women and Families

April 4, 2013

Many programs vital to women and their families are being cut.  Yet, at the same time, our nation is spending billions of dollars each year on unfair tax breaks for large corporations and very wealthy individuals.  

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Fact Sheet | The Ryan House Budget FY 2014: Once Again, Gutting Vital Programs for Women and Families, Giving Trillions in Tax Cuts to Millionaires and Corporations

March 20, 2013

The budget for Fiscal Year 2014 introduced by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), like his Fiscal Year 2013 budget, proposes deep funding cuts that would devastate programs especially important to women and their families: Medicaid, Medicare, child care, education, SNAP, and much more.

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Fact Sheet | The FY 2014 Murray Senate Budget: A Fairer Path Forward for Women and Families

March 18, 2013

The FY 2014 budget introduced by Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray (D-WA) presents a clear alternative to the plan proposed by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI).

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Fact Sheet | A Roadmap to the 2013 Federal Budget Debates

April 11, 2013

Here is a look at key provisions of the fiscal cliff deal, the timeline for critical choices that remain before Congress, and the guiding principles that will protect women and their families and promote widely shared prosperity.

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More Resources

Fact Sheet | H.R. 8 Leaves No Millionaire Behind but Ends Tax Cuts for a Third of Families with Children

July 31, 2012

This fact sheet explains the damaging effects of H.R. 8, a bill that would extend tax cuts for the richest two percent of Americans while ending tax breaks for low and moderate-income families.

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Coalition Action Materials | The National Women's Law Center Supports Ending Tax Cuts for Richest Two Percent

July 24, 2012

The National Women's Law Center sent a letter urging Senators to support Senator Harry Reid's "Middle Class Tax Cut Act" that would end the Bush-era tax cuts for the top two percent of earners, and to reject proposals that would extend tax breaks for high earners while ending important tax credits for low-income families.

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Fact Sheet | Summary of Tax Fairness Provisions in the Rebuild America Act

May 16, 2012

This fact sheet explains the tax and revenue proposals in Sen. Tom Harkin's Rebuild America Act that will help protect women's economic security while ensuring millionaires and corporations pay their fair share.

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Coalition Action Materials | National Women's Law Center Opposes House Reconciliation Bill

May 09, 2012

The National Women's Law Center sent a letter to members of the House of Representatives on May 9 expressing its opposition to the Sequester Replacement and Sequester Replacement Reconciliation Act of 2012 (H.R. 4966).

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Coalition Action Materials | National Women's Law Center Opposes House Ways and Means Proposals that Would Hurt Women

April 17, 2012

The National Women's Law Center sent a letter to the chairman and ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee in opposition to proposals that would create a financial barrier to claiming tax credits to make insurance more affordable under the Affordable Care Act, limit access to the refundable Child Tax Credit, especially for immigrant families, and eliminate the Social Services Block Grant, which provides funding for child care and other important social services.

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