• Despite the addition of over a million jobs over the last three decades, more than 57% pay less than a living wage and that nearly 87% pay less than a living wage for a three-person family and many low-wage workers often hold two full-time jobs just to pay basic bills.
• Almost 19% of Nevada's children live below the poverty level
• Nevada has the second highest percentage of mortgage owners paying more than 30% of the household income on housing
• Nevada ranks 50th in expenditures for public elementary and secondary education and ranks 47th in the percentage of students able to read above a basic 4th grade reading level
• Nevada ranks 51st in state Medicaid spending and 49th in both total state health care expenditures and in overall children's health.
  
  

And yet...

• The top 1% of Nevada's population pays only 1.8% of their income in taxes compared to almost 9% for the bottom 20% of Nevada's wage earners
• Nevada's tax structure is the most regressive in the nation ranking 51st compared to 49 states and the District of Columbia
• Nevada is one of only four states without any type of corporate income tax
• Not surprisingly...
  Nevada ranks 4th in suicides and 5th in alcohol consumption per capita.
  
  

PLAN's Economic and Tax Justice Committee is a committed and active group of board and community members who share PLAN's commitment to Economic Justice. As such, the committee acts under the following Guiding Principles: Women, people of color, immigrants, LGBT people, people with disabilities, and others often denied the respect and opportunity they deserve in a democratic society, have an inalienable right to dignity and freedom from discrimination. This committee exists to strive for economic justice within a social justice framework by setting the following goals and objectives.