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Born at Bellagio: A Fair Share Tax Coalition [1]

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Date: 2024-09

A child of a widowed mom fulfills an early dream to become a teacher in a struggling Milwaukee school. But she quickly determines that problems aren’t fixed in the classrooms; they are resolved in budgets set by distant lawmakers.

And those budgets rely on taxes. Which is, in shorthand, how Kristen Crowell, herself a single mom living what she calls “the scrappy working-class life,” became Executive Director of Fair Share America and a fair tax superheroine.

Fair Share America aims to inform, lead, and implement a national tax and revenue strategy to help create transformative change in the U.S. economy and society by helping working families thrive as well as increasing taxation transparency and garnering resources to meet a budget stressed by climate change.

Some 300 organizations from 20 states have signed up to participate in the Fair Share America coalition so far, and Crowell and her team are aiming the increase that number to 1,000 by January.

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[1] Url: https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/insights/grantee-impact-story/born-at-bellagio-a-fair-share-tax-coalition/

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