Tax authorities find it easier to audit earned income tax credit, which disproportionately affects poor communities of color, than to target billionaires
Clumps of white fluff drift across the highway on the west side of the Mississippi Delta town of Belzoni. Cotton now grows from the beds of former catfish ponds.
When catfish ponds in the self-proclaimed Catfish Capital of the World dried up, jobs went with them. Humphreys county, where Belzoni is located, has an unemployment rate double the national level.
Continue reading...from The Guardian https://ift.tt/3dC5ZGz