TAX RETURNS

Growing up to a public school teacher and a farmer, Ihssane’s family never had much. At the age of 20, Ihssane came to America on her own with nothing but a small suitcase. She worked sub-minimum wage jobs mopping restaurant floors and babysitting. In 2006, she and her husband, Sean, made just $7,217. They lived in apartments without heat and were forced to make decisions about paying for health care or dinner. While under the grind of wage theft and sexual harassment, Ihssane scraped every dollar she could to put herself through community college and vowed to dismantle every oppressive system that denies people the basic necessities to live.

Ihssane earned a Women in Math scholarship, which gave her the opportunity to attend Boston University where she became the first person in her family to graduate from college, earning a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Math.

In 2013, Ihssane’s fight for justice for all people, led her to the Federal Reserve, where she took on the financial institutions whose greed and recklessness devastated families across our country. As a Wall Street Regulator at the Federal Reserve her job was to hold the largest financial institutions accountable and protect our economy. She launched and led federal inter-agency task forces to protect jobs and consumers from national and global threats to our economy, and take a proactive approach to assess, measure and hedge the risks we’re facing, in order to build a resilient economy.

Ihssane’s journey – from struggling through poverty to working at the Federal Reserve – is sadly an outlier. Most Americans are not able to escape the vicious cycle of poverty. That’s why Ihssane is running for Congress – to ensure that no one in the richest country in the world is denied basic necessities to live. No one will be a fiercer advocate for working people and the most vulnerable in Congress.

Ihssane is releasing the past 7 years of tax returns, plus 2006 which she has referenced throughout the campaign.