Not exact matches
Under the
proposal, over 8,000 high - poverty schools, enrolling 3.8 million children currently participating in community
eligibility, would be impacted — roughly 40 percent of the 20,000 schools currently participating.
Long Island would benefit the least
under the governor's free tuition
proposal, according to a statewide
eligibility breakdown released by his office.
The
proposal expands the
eligibility of a small business to include any business that files
under PIT regardless of how the business is structured; raises the income
eligibility threshold from $ 250,000 to $ 500,000 when the business entity income is less than $ 1.5 million; eliminates the employee requirement; increases the exemption from 5 percent to 15 percent for small business income and from 5 percent to 20 percent for farm income; increases the corporate tax threshold from $ 390,000 to $ 500,000; and reduces the corporate business income rate for small businesses from 6.5 percent to 2.5 percent over two years.
EPI executive director Natalie Perera told The Observer: «Around 900,000 children from low - income families will lose their
eligibility for free school meals
under these
proposals.