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Jun 27 2022
News
Covid anxiety is giving way to economic anxiety. How to cope.
We waited for vaccines, for boosters and for lockdowns to be lifted. Major life events were postponed or — worse — missed. But the hope was that life would resume on the other side of the pandemic and we would make up for lost time. Those fortunate enough to weather the pandemic with their savings intact dreamed of having a wedding, traveling or continuing their education.
Now the stock
NBC News (Online)
Mar 24 2015
News
Hillary Clinton Tests Two Themes for 2016: Working Together and Inequality
Hillary Clinton road-tested two themes likely to shape her pitch to voters in the 2016 presidential campaign—the value of working together and the need to combat economic inequality—during a panel discussion with Democratic groups on Monday.
Her appearance at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, represented another building block for her expected campaign. Alrea
Wall Street Journal (News)
Dec 07 2020
Analysis
US millennials were grappling with the inequality of a K-shaped economy long before Covid-19
In a speech on Dec. 1, president-elect Biden spoke about the need to “address the structural inequities in our economy that this pandemic has laid bare” and referred to the “K-shaped” economic recovery, where the letter’s two diverging strokes depict two different economic outcomes facing Americans. The haves and the have-nots.
While the recovery from the pandemic may be the first time
Quartz
Jul 10 2021
News
Lebanon Faces Dire Crisis After the Elite Plundered the State for Decades, Exacerbating Inequality
Lebanon is days away from a “social explosion,” according to the country’s prime minister, amid what the World Bank has described as one of the worst economic depressions in modern history. The country’s currency has lost more than 90% of its value, unemployment has skyrocketed, and fuel prices have soared. Most homes and businesses, and even hospitals, only have power for a few hours each day
Democracy Now!
Nov 10 2021
News
Economics 101: More college classes bring moral debates to the surface
Professors have often presented economics as the realm of rational people making efficient choices. Now many are highlighting the ethical questions behind the theories.
For the past five years, economists Wendy Carlin and Sam Bowles got professors from around the world to ask thousands of first-year economics students one basic question on their first day of class. What is the most
Christian Science Monitor
Aug 08 2022
Opinion
Farewell, Years-Long GOP Effort to Help the Wealthy Not Pay Taxes
They did it: Senate Democrats have finally passed a reconciliation package after more than a year of negotiations. Gone are one-time priorities like child care and housing; Americans will have to settle for the country’s largest ever investment in fighting climate change, plus some important strides toward lowering health care costs.
Republicans still managed to strip out a $35 price
Slate
Aug 11 2022
Analysis
With the IRS hiring more employees, here’s who agents may target for audits
As the Democrats’ spending plan moves closer to a House vote, one of the more controversial provisions — nearly $80 billion in IRS funding, with $45.6 billion for “enforcement” — has raised questions about who the agency may target for audits.
IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig said these resources are “absolutely not about increasing audit scrutiny on small businesses or middle-income
CNBC
Aug 11 2022
Analysis
Hyperbolic GOP claims about IRS agents and audits
“Do you make $75,000 or less? Democrats’ new army of 87,000 IRS agents will be coming for you — with 710,000 new audits for Americans who earn less than $75k.”
— House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, in a tweet, Aug. 9
With a vote scheduled Friday in the House on the big spending package approved in the Senate, the GOP has focused its fire on provisions that would bolster the
Washington Post Fact Check
Aug 11 2022
Analysis
How Democrats' beefed-up IRS could hurt low-income Americans
The newest health care and climate spending bill from Democrats includes an $80 billion boost to the Internal Revenue Service that is intended to help the agency crack down on wealthy tax cheats. However, Republican critics say that a bigger IRS could ultimately hurt lower-income Americans.
Providing the IRS with an influx of funding has been a top priority for President Biden. It has
Fox Business