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Feb 27 2020
Fact Check
False claim: Bernie Sanders proposes raising tax rate to 52% on incomes above $29,000
Multiple posts on social media make the claim that 2020 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is proposing a 52% tax rate on incomes above $29,000 a year. Examples of the claim appear on Facebook here , Instagram here , Twitter here , and Reddit here .
The posts give a breakdown of the potential impacts of this extreme tax-hike alongside one of Sanders’ signature proposals: the increase
ReutersJun 10 2021
News
Here’s how much Americans in every wealth bracket would get, on average, from up to $50K of student debt forgiveness
During the 2020 presidential election, several candidates pledged their support for some form of student debt forgiveness — including President Joe Biden. Since his election, House and Senate Democrats have repeatedly urged Biden to “broadly” forgive up to $50,000 of federal debt through executive order, an approach that has become known as the “Warren-Schumer proposal.” Biden has repeatedly
CNBCMay 12 2020
Opinion
Who will be Joe Biden’s co-president?
Joe Biden needs a co-president. Not just a running mate, not just a potential vice president, but someone who will be president-in-waiting should Biden win in November — the month he turns 78.
The idea of Biden running for a second term in 2024 at the age of 81 is hard to take seriously. So far, this is something everybody knows but nobody is taking seriously enough.
The question
The Spectator WorldAug 03 2020
Fact Check
The President’s Trumped-Up Claims of Voter Fraud
In a July 30 tweet, President Donald Trump suggested for the first time that the 2020 election should be postponed, drawing — once again — false distinctions between mail-in and absentee ballots.
For months, the president — who is trailing in the polls with the election less than 100 days away — has been warning about the potential for voter fraud in 2020.
But the president has
FactCheck.orgJul 25 2020
Analysis
Should Libertarians Vote for Biden, Jorgensen, or Trump? A Soho Forum Debate
That was the topic of an online Soho Forum debate held on Wednesday, July 22, 2020. It featured George Mason University law professor Ilya Somin; Angela McArdle, the chair of the Libertarian Party of Los Angeles County; and Francis Menton, a retired attorney who blogs at Manhattan Contrarian. The debate was moderated by Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein.
Arguing that libertarians should
ReasonOct 23 2020
News
Trump Campaign Has Record-Setting Online Fundraising Day
President Donald Trump’s campaign is setting records after a $26 million haul around the final presidential debate against Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Thursday night.
This marked the largest digital fundraising day in the campaign’s history.
The campaign raised 30% more and reactivated 20% more past donors than the last debates. October is Trump’s largest digital
Independent Journal ReviewAug 18 2021
Fact Check
Timeline of U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan
The blame game has begun over who lost Afghanistan.
The fact is, President Joe Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump, were both eager to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan and end what Biden referred to in his Aug. 16 speech as “America’s longest war.”
The Trump administration in February 2020 negotiated a withdrawal agreement with the Taliban that excluded the Afghan
FactCheck.orgMay 11 2021
News
As Workers Struggled, Boardrooms Found Ways To Reward CEOs During Pandemic
As the coronavirus pandemic upended the restaurant industry in March 2020, fast-casual burrito chain Chipotle instituted a 10% “appreciation pay” bonus for employees willing to risk their health to keep working during the crisis. For frontline workers earning around $12 or $13 an hour, that amounted to a pay boost of a dollar and change.
Chipotle CEO Brian Niccol got a raise, too ― from
HuffPostAug 27 2019
News
Americans Have Shifted Dramatically on What Values Matter Most
The values that Americans say define the national character are changing, as younger generations rate patriotism, religion and having children as less important to them than did young people two decades ago, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey finds.
The poll is the latest sign of difficulties the 2020 presidential candidates will likely face in crafting a unifying message for a
Wall Street Journal (News)Jan 25 2021
Opinion
Can the media regain credibility under Biden?
America’s newsrooms spent the last four years grappling with an arduous challenge: separating the consequential from the petty in President Trump’s endless barrage of malfeasance. Yet with Trump out of office, the media now faces a new task: proving impartiality while covering a president – Joe Biden – who journalists nearly uniformly supported in the 2020 election.
That's a tall order
Guest Writer - Center