Media

The REAL Act

By Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-IL), Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), Rep. French Hill (R-AR), and Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA)

Millions of students and their families who are struggling to pay for college may not realize that they’re eligible to take advantage of education tax benefits. The American Opportunity Tax Credit provides up to $2,500 a year of the out-of-pocket cost of tuition and qualified education expenses including books, supplies, and equipment needed for a course of study, paid during the taxable year for the first four years of college.

MEDIA ADVISORY

MEDIA CONTACT: Tumia Romero - 773-533-750

CONGRESSMAN DAVIS TO HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE ANNOUNCING

TAX BREAKS FOR STUDENTS AND FAMLIES - SOCIAL NETWORK ACTION WEEK

CHICAGO - U.S. Representative Danny K. Davis (D-IL) will hold a press conference Sunday, February 23, 2020 at the 2813 W. Fifth Avenue, Chicago, IL regarding the 2019 federal filing season, discussing tax breaks for students and families.

WHERE: 2813-15 W. Fifth Avenue

• 700,000 DC residents have no vote in Congress. They pay the most in federal taxes per capita and their residents serve in every military branch.

• 30,000 veterans live in Washington, DC and have fought for their country. Yet, when they return home, they have no vote in the government they just fought to defend.

• Fact Check: No other democracy in the world deprives its citizens of equal rights just because they live in the nation’s capital.

The American economy is not working for most Americans. While corporations and the wealthy continue to capture the rewards of a growing economy — working families and middle-class Americans are being left behind. From 1980 to 2017, average incomes for the bottom 90 percent of households increased just 1.1 percent, while average incomes for the wealthiest 1 percent increased more than 184 percent. This inequality is not a natural product of a functioning economy.

Facts matter, the truth matters. But not with this President. Look as what he has done, not what he said at tonight’s State of the Union address.

Washington, D.C. – Yesterday, Chairman of the Social Security Subcommittee John B. Larson (CT-01), Rep. Brendan F. Boyle (PA-02), Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal (MA-01), and Worker and Family Support Subcommittee Chairman Danny K. Davis (IL-07) led a letter to the Commissioner of Social Security, Andrew Saul, to oppose the Trump Administration’s proposed rule to cut Social Security and Supplemental Security Income disability benefits. The letter was signed by 124 Members of Congress.

Today, Congressman Danny K. Davis released the following statement regarding a new U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed rule that would allow federal funds to be used to discriminate against certain populations: