Money
Money
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Data PrivacyIs Your Tax Return Safe?
Ashish, a 42-year-old information technology professional, opened his mail this February to discover a prepaid debit card with a $1,000 advance on a tax refund for the year 2018. Funny thing was, Ashish hadn’t filed... Read More
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EducationA Bipartisan War on Inequality
The Earned Income Tax Credit encourages work, reduces poverty and improves family outcomes. Unless you’re childless. Read More
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ImmigrationHelp Wanted: Everywhere
American has a low-skilled labor shortage. Can expanding guest worker visas provide businesses with the help they need? Read More
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EducationThe Minimum Wage Riddle
Would a $15 federal minimum wage increase the well-being of low income Americans or put them out of work? Read More
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AddictionBig Sugar and Us
It’s been a sweet year for Big Sugar. Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola and the American Beverage Association beat back sugary drink taxes and their proponents in California, Arizona and Washington. The American Sugar Alliance succeeded in retaining... Read More
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EducationNo Room, No Board
Jessica McCormick was a homeless college student. She escaped an abusive home and spent her last two years of high school living in a youth shelter. With the help of scholarships, grants, loans and part-time... Read More
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EducationA Degree At Any Price
Fraud complaints against for-profit colleges arrive at the Department of Education at a rate of 8,000 a month. That is on top of the current complaint backlog of 87,000. No wonder Betsy DeVos is trying... Read More
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AddictionTax the Juul
Buy a pack of Marlboros in New York City, and you will pay $5.85 in cigarette taxes. Buy a Juul e-cigarette device and liquid nicotine pod, and you won’t be taxed a penny. The total... Read More
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Climate ChangeFlood Insurance: Underwater
Roared ashore. Barreled across. Lashed down. However they arrived, the record-breaking hurricane waters of 2017 engulfed residents in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands triggering $8 billion in National Flood Insurance Program... Read More
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ConservationReduce, Reuse…China-Cycle?
Green Fence. National Sword. Blue Sky. These are the aspirational names of China’s environmental policies that have put the $106 billion U.S. recycling industry through the shredder. China, the world’s largest importer of all types... Read More