One-time rebates ($1.14 billion going to 2.58 million Minnesotans)
Up to $1300 per household: $260/adult + $260/child (up to three kids)
Property Tax Support for Homeowners & Renters
One-time 20.6% homeowner property tax refund ⬆️for taxes payable 2023 AND permanent 3% reduction in copays
Homestead Market Value Exclusion ⬆️ to $517,200
Renters Refund: 20.6% refund ⬆️ for rent paid in 2022
Senior citizen property tax deferral program increased to $96,000 (seniors also benefit from the Renters Refund, with more than 50% of recipients in Greater MN and 1/3 are seniors or people with disabilities)
Affordable Housing dedicated funding: $105 million for Housing Development Fund, Workforce & Affordable Homeownership, and Local Housing Aid
Working Family Tax Credit ($40.4 million)
K12 Education Expense Increase & Expansion ($47 million). Incomes up to $70,000 now qualify for the credit up from $35,000 -- 31,200 more Minnesotans are eligible; credit increased to $1,500 per child.
Also: Beginning Farmer Tax Credit, Depended Care Credit, Military Service Credit and more!
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A few weeks ago I found myself in a situation I never could've imagined: delivering a convention speech in active labor. Laboring in public was incredibly vulnerable. Ultimately, I made the best decision for my health & the health of my baby and withdrew to go to the hospital 1/8
Since then, I've received an INCREDIBLE amount of support from our district and across the nation. It is because of my convention experience and the support from my community that I am proud to announce our campaign for State Senate will continue to the August primary 2/8
Birth is unpredictable, but my experience wasn’t unique. It was emblematic of the larger battle we are fighting to build a world where reproductive health is prioritized and Black women’s health is taken seriously. 3/8
We can’t talk about what’s happening in Minneapolis tonight without talking about what’s happened to Black Minnesotans in the last 4 months. 4 years. 400 years. HALF of Black Minnesotans are unemployed. Record numbers of ppl are experiencing homelessness, food insecurity and all
during a global pandemic. At the start of the summer, another Black man was murdered by police in MN: the state with the highest racial disparities in the nation. That sparked a national reckoning on racism. Now we’re at the end of summer and another Black man was shot by police.
This time in our neighbor state, Wisconsin. The state we share “highest racial disparities” with. Thankfully he survived. And then last night, a white nationalist shot and killed two Wisconsin demonstrators.
How is this not the biggest story in MN right now?? Roger Chamberlain, the *Chair of the Tax Committee* is OPENLY trafficking in white nationalism. He's promoting a book that says "the proper rulers of the world are white men". minnesotareformer.com/2020/08/24/a-f…
On August 16th, Sen Chamberlain liked a tweet that said we need to build a worldwide transportation system of "mainly trains" to transport the world to a central "processing facility". This is absolutely horrifying. Sen. Chamberlain need to have his gavel taken away IMMEDIATELY.
Sen. Chamberlain is taking cues from LITERAL Nazis, thanking the author of a book that uses disgusting racial slurs in reference to Black women, proclaims that certain people make up an inferior class and argues that human rights are unnatural. This is NOT OKAY.
NO ONE is saying school is not essential for children. That’s why teachers & students & parents rally at the Capitol every year to *beg* you to fully fund schools. What people ARE asking is w/o coordinated federal response, or even a mask mandate, how can school be safe?
This kind of willful ignorance is deeply harmful to the very complicated discussions that have to happen around in-person learning. Parents and students and teachers who are concerned have every right to be! Maligning them as people “who think school is not essential” is craven.
A mask mandate would help slow the spread and make it more likely students can resume in-person learning. It’s also feasible that in order to open schools, we have to close a lot of other things. Again, all complicated things to weigh.
I'm a policy wonk. And while the law is an imperfect tool--policy is often steeped in white supremacy--Black Minnesotans HAVE BEEN proposing policy solutions to address the impacts of systemic racism and dismantle white supremacy. A sampling:
As we move forward, I'm looking at 5 things to help me decide if I should do a thing or not: 1. Time 2. Activity 3. Location 4. Population 5. Necessity
So, sitting/standing (singing!) for an hr--indoors--with a lot of senior citizens makes church a no for me for now.
1. Time: the CDC is using 15 minutes of close exposure as a benchmark. So I'm avoiding activities that put me closer than 6 feet to someone outside of my household for longer than 15 minutes.
2. Activity: does this activity increase the spread the virus? Are we expelling air on each other? Can we wear masks while doing it? I do HIIT & yoga. Early research shows that HIIT, in particular, easily spreads the virus. Ordering take out, not so much. cnn.com/2020/05/18/hea…