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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
Reuters
Feb 27 2020
News
U.S. Stocks Slide Into a Correction as Virus Fears Show No Sign of Easing
The February market rout deepened Thursday, as major stock indexes around the globe posted another round of significant declines and uncertainty over the impact of the coronavirus began shading into fear.
The Dow industrials tumbled 1,190.95 points, or 4.4%, to 25766.64, bringing its slide this week to more than 3,200 points. The S&P declined 4.4%, extending its six-day decline to
Wall Street Journal (News)
May 08 2020
News
Coronavirus: Pandemic sends US jobless rate to 14.7%
The US unemployment rate has risen to 14.7%, with 20.5 million jobs lost in April, as the coronavirus pandemic devastated the economy.
The rise means the jobless rate is now worse than at any time since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Since the pandemic began, the US has suffered its worst growth numbers in a decade and the worst retail sales report on record.
Just two
BBC News
May 07 2020
News
A Dangerous Limbo: Probation and Parole in the Time of COVID-19
Seven months after Tammie Lewis was granted parole, she is still in Marlin Transfer Facility waiting to go home. Officials won’t release her from the Texas state prison until she completes a six-month program focused on decision-making.* But she hasn’t been able to finish the program because, after waitlists and other delays, classes normally taught in person were suspended due to coronavirus
The Marshall Project
Jul 26 2023
Headline Roundup
Fed Raises Interest Rates to Highest Level Since 2001
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by another quarter point, reaching the highest level since 2001.
The Details: The latest move raises the target range for the federal funds rate to 5.25-5.5%, narrowly above 2007’s 5.26% peak.
For Context: The decision resumes the Fed’s fight against inflation after it paused rate hikes in June. However, the Fed noted then that it
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May 04 2022
Perspectives Blog
Elon Musk Buys Twitter: Victory for Free Speech or Online Harassment?
Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter has been dominating headlines on the left and right over the past week.
To see how the left and right covered the story differently, AllSides conducted a media bias analysis of nearly 25,000 words from 36 news stories to uncover the words that outlets on different sides of the aisle used to describe the story.
Outlets on the left mentioned
Multiple Writers - Mixed
Aug 09 2023
Headline Roundup
China Faces Deflation, Raising Concerns for World Economy
Falling prices, slowing GDP growth, and a host of other economic problems in China have led observers to raise concerns for the global economy.
The Details: With inflation rates dropping worldwide, consumer prices in China deflated in July as consumers and businesses spent less. Additionally, China’s GDP growth in the second quarter of 2023 was 6.3%, lower than the expected 7%. The
New York Times (News)
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New York Post (News)
Apr 22 2019
News
Supreme Court Mulls Citizenship Question for Census
This is another case in which Trump administration behavior is provoking plaintiffs to ask the judiciary to police the blurry boundaries of executive discretion.
The oral arguments the Supreme Court will hear on Tuesday will be more decorous than the gusts of judicial testiness that blew the case up to the nation’s highest tribunal. The case, which raises arcane questions of
National Review (News)
Feb 24 2020
News
What you need to know about the South Carolina Democratic primary
On February 29, South Carolina Democrats and voters nationwide will have their first opportunity to see how candidates perform in a state whose Democratic electorate is expected to be mostly African-American. Sixty percent of the turnout here is expected to comprise black voters.
Two months into 2020, after three states have weighed in, Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, Bernie Sanders has
CBS News (Online)
Mar 06 2016
News
The real war on coal is happening in China right now
The most important global warming story over the past two years has arguably been China's struggle to suppress its once-insatiable appetite for coal.
Lately, those efforts have begun paying off. Recent data suggests that China's carbon dioxide emissions fell in 2015, driven by a sharp drop in coal use. There's always plenty of uncertainty with C
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