Our Opinion: Vermonters losing ground while economy grows January 1, 2015 Brattleboro Reformer, January 2015. This op-ed analyzes the release of the Public Asset Institute's 2014 State of Working Verm... Read More
How the Safety Net Cuts Poverty Rates October 28, 2014 The Pew Charitable Trusts, October 2014. Research report measuring the impact that safety net programs as whole have on the pvo... Read More
Offering a Better Vision, Supporting a Champion: Lessons from Vermont’s 2013 Battle to Protect the State Earned Income Tax Credit September 1, 2013 TCWF, 2013. A TCWF case-study examining the strategies and messages used by advocates in Vermont to preserve the state's EITC,... Read More
No More January Surprises May 1, 2013 Public Assets Institute, May 2013. This blog reviews how Gov. Peter Shumlin's proposals to cut the EITC caught the public and... Read More
Public Assets Institute Takes to Airwaves to Counter Governor’s EITC Proposal April 23, 2013 Alicia Freese, VT Digger, April 2013. News article describing the Public Assets Institute's radio advertisements which opposed ... Read More
Tax Department Bashes Public Assets Institute’s EITC Report April 22, 2013 Alicia Freese, VT Digger, April 2013. This news article explains why the Vermont Tax Department believes that the Public Asset... Read More
New EITC Plan Still Takes From the Working Poor April 22, 2013 Paul Cillo, Public Assets Institute, April 2013. Blog post explaining that Governor Peter Shumlin's new proposal for funding hi... Read More
One Vermont Radio Ad April 16, 2013 One Vermont, April 2013. Radio advertisement calling for the Governor and legislators to find alternative funding for an initia... Read More
New Report: Vermont EITC Not Too Generous April 11, 2013 Public Assets Institute, April 2013. Press release about a new report which ranks Vermont 25th among the 50 states and the Dist... Read More
Fleeting Tax Arguments March 29, 2013 Jack Hoffman, Public Assets Institute, March 2013. Blog post questioning Governor Peter Shumlin's favorance for cutting the st... Read More
