Last #TaxDay post: It's clearer than ever – our local and state health departments are critical for the health of our communities. #WeArePublicHealth and we want to see our taxes to go to increased funding health departments and our #PublicHealth infrastructure. #TaxesForHealth

Tax Day: What’s Health Equity Got to Do With It? By Sari Bilick and Amber Akemi Piatt

"We can imagine & build towards a society where our taxes assure living wages for all, guarantee a roof over our families’ heads, & bolster community-led, non-punitive emergency response systems."
Read up on why we are talking about #TaxesForHealth today!

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"The public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been a monumental showing of what we can do when we pool our resources. It’s a reminder that we need each other, that our fates are inextricably linked." ⭐️@LoriDorfman & HIP Board member @veronicalucha on #TaxesForHealth

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Yes! Our taxes can fund #HealthNotPunishment! #TaxesForHealth

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#ThisIsPublicHealth -- public health work includes making space for young people, supporting #TaxesForHealth, and choosing #HealthNotPolicing

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📊Now more than ever we know our local and state health departments are critical for the health of our communities and our country.
We are proud to work with health departments across the country to advance #HealthEquity now and beyond #COVID19

#TaxesForHealth #TaxJustice

What's a #PublicHealth + #CommunitySafety project you've worked on that upholds how we need #TaxesForHealth?

Community safety and health is upheld by mutual aid efforts, NOT incarceration and police violence

Here's some of our #HealthNotPunishment work.
TL;DR: govt needs to invest in public edu, mental health support, inclusive immigration policies, etc
#TaxesForHealth #TaxJustice

What's some research or policy work of yours that showcases how housing policies are tied to #TaxesForHealth?

🏘Now more than ever we know housing matters for health. Here are some examples from our policy-driven research on #HealthyHousing — 👀 spoiler across the board: govt needs to lead by investing in sound policies for ALL communities
#TaxesForHealth #TaxJustice

Add your voice to the mix! Use #TaxesForHealth and #TaxJustice to tell us what a healthy, inclusive, and just society can look like when we invest in #HealthEquity and in a public sector that's accountable to ALL of us, regardless of our race/ethnicity or income /

On #TaxDay we're talkin' bout #TaxesForHealth
#COVID19 has made the need to organize for strong infrastructure and social supports urgently clear. Since 2018, @PHAwakened and partners have been building our narrative muscle to name how taxes and #HealthEquity are interconnected /

In CA we have an opportunity to align our tax structure with our values through the #SchoolsAndCommunitiesFirst ballot measure and bring much needed funding to schools and local governments #TaxesForHealth

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Health Solutions Create Safety: A Menu of Policies and Programs Health Solutions Create Safety is a robust list of 36 replicable programs or interventions and 25 policies that respond to social challenges with public health solutions rather than punitive criminal justice processes. This resource was developed by a workgroup of the National Criminal Justice and Public Health Alliance to help communities achieve shared safety.

🎈 This #TaxDay2019 (and every day), we're all about transforming our systems to advance #HealthNotPunishment and #TaxesForHealth:

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Income, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Infant Health (February 2015) - This paper uses quasi-experimental variation from federal tax reform to evaluate the effect of the EITC on infant health outcomes. We find that the EITC reduces the incidence of low birth weight and increases mean birth weight: a $1,000 treatment-on-the-treated leads to a 2 to 3 percent decline in low birth weight. Our results suggest that the candidate mechanisms include more prenatal care and less negative health behaviors (smoking). Additionally, we find a shift from public to private insurance coverage, and for some a reduction in insurance overall, indicating a potential change in the quality and perhaps quantity of coverage. (JEL H24, I12, I38, J13)

📉 DYK: @AEAjournals research shows that #EITC reduces incidents of low birth weight & increases average birth weight. Infant birth weight is a key marker for lifetime healthWe've got to expand #EITC, so we build the society we deserve w/ #TaxesForHealth

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