About This Event

WPSR's Economic Inequity & Health Task Force invites you to join us and learn why progressive taxation is essential for health and wellbeing.

Washington has the most regressive tax system in the country - people struggling to make ends meet pay the most, while the very wealthy pay the least. This harms everyone. Even the wealthiest among us.

Together we'll learn how taxation affects health and equity, then discuss as a group how we can shift the narratives about taxation and make a difference in our state. We hope you'll join us to get as excited about balancing our tax code as we are.

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https://www.wpsr.org/healthandtaxes?emci=fdfc56c8-4614-ee11-a9bb-00224832eb73&emdi=4c256a20-3615-ee11-a9bb-00224832eb73&ceid=173477

Featuring

Carolyn Brotherton, Ph.D.

Policy Associate with Economic Opportunity Institute (EOI)

Carolyn Brotherton holds a BS in Chemistry from Yale University and a PhD in Chemistry and Chemical Biology from Harvard University. Before joining EOI, she worked as the Government Relations Specialist for AFT Washington. Carolyn got into advocacy while helping to organize a union and negotiate a first contract for fellow postdoctoral researchers at the University of Washington. She interned with the Washington State Labor Council during the 2019 Legislative Session. Carolyn believes every billionaire is a policy failure.

Dr. Stephen Bezruchka, MD, MPH

Author of "Inequality Kills Us All: COVID-19's Health Lessons for the World"

Stephen Bezruchka (pronounced bez-rootch-ka) is faculty in the School of Public Health at the University of Washington in Seattle. He worked as an emergency physician for 30 years and also set up a teaching hospital in a remote district in Nepal where he supervised the training of Nepali doctors. His current work is in making better known what produces health in a population and why the United States has worse health outcomes than some 50 other nations despite spending almost half of the world's healthcare bill.