Tuesday, November 14, 2017

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The economic reason why tax cuts for the rich are so stupid


 

America Has a Monopoly Problem—and It’s Huge: The Nobel-prize winner argues that an economy dominated by large corporations has failed the many and enriched the few.


 

The economies of American states and cities are diverging: Boosting labour mobility may help


 

Trump’s ad cuts will cost a minimum of 1.1 million Obamacare enrollments


 

Federal safety net programs for kids facing funding lapse


 

Schumer: Bipartisan health care bill 'has a majority'


 

Scoop: Trump enlists family, Cabinet, Congress in opioid response


 

‘Catastrophic’ policies part of sweeteners in latest health care bill


 

1.1 million fewer people could sign up for ObamaCare this year due to Trump funding cuts


 

Your Endocannabinoid System - What it is, how it works


 

RANKED: The 30 richest countries in the world (U.S. is #13 and Qatar is #1)


 

Administration Denies More States' Plans To Customize Insurance Markets


 

Senate kills rule allowing class-action lawsuits against banks and credit card companies


 

Under Trump, Made in America Is Losing Out to Russian Steel: An oligarch-owned steel company is winning pipeline contracts, and foreign steel imports are up 24 percent this year.


 

Congress to investigate deal that awarded $300M contract to Trump donor


 

My Life as One of Arms Dealer Adnan Khashoggi’s ‘Pleasure Wives’: Jill Todd, founder of the surfwear company Roxy, just revealed the truth about living the high life as part of Adnan Khashoggi’s modern-day harem.


 

TaxVox: Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms


 

I voted for Trump. Now he wants to cut the aid I need


 

Trump Says Obamacare Is Dead. But Millions Can Enroll This Week.


 

Betsy DeVos Strips Minority Children of Their Basic Human Right in Despicable Move


 

TaxVox: Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms.  The Big Six Tax Outline Would Lose $2.4 Trillion Over 10 Years, According To TPC’s New Dynamic Score


 

9 out of 10 Americans Are Completely Wrong about This Mind Blowing Fact


 

Education officials expect ‘ineffective’ Betsy DeVos to step down as her agenda collapses: report


 

5 potential pitfalls for Republican tax overhaul effort


 

Polls: Americans Aren't Buying Key White House Arguments For Tax Overhaul


 

The weird way Trump actually lowered Obamacare premiums for millions


 

What Did Bernie Sanders Learn in His Weekend in Canada?


 

The opioid crisis: Crucial next steps


 

Tax Bill Introduced


 

GOP senator: Millionaires deserve the tax breaks because poor people “create nothing”


 

The Republican 'tax plan' is getting bad reviews from the public—and from Republican allies


 

BREAKING: Billionaire Who Attacked Trump Arrested By Saudi Government In Power Grab


 

The GOP Tax Bill Is an Attempt to Destroy Government: Americans need more services, not less.


 

Instead of $2 Trillion Corporate Tax Cut, GOP Could Give Average American Families $17,000 Each: Sen. Elizabeth Warren scoffs at GOP's offer of $1,182 per year for families under tax plan


 

GOP Tax Plan Repeals Johnson Amendment, Making Churches Super PACs


 

Death Cross Danger: Bad Omen as Bank ETFs Break Down: Bank stocks are experiencing technical breakdowns. This could spell trouble for the stock market.


 

House GOP’s Child Tax Credit Expansion Excludes Millions of Children in Lower-Income Working Families


 

Democrats: GOP tax plan hurts middle class


 

FURIOUS Congressman Blasts Republicans' Tax Cuts For The Rich


 

The Vultures Circling Puerto Rico: A special investigation.


 

In 1979, This Economist Predicted Puerto Rico’s Modern-Day Financial Crisis: The dominoes that led to the collapse were set up decades ago.


 

Why Are Socialists Always Talking About the Working Class?  A discussion about class in the 21st century.


 

Yanis Varoufakis: Confessions of a Troika Dropout: Greece’s former finance minister and “inconsistent Marxist” discusses his new tell-all from his time in Europe’s halls of austerity.


 

Donald Trump whines to Democrats that the tax bill would 'kill' him unless the estate tax is cut


 

How GOP Lawmakers Ignore the Will of the People: In 2016, voters passed a raft of liberal ballot initiatives. Now Republicans are throwing them out.


 

The Value of Life, Measured by Word Count


 

Poverty Is Largely Invisible Among College Students


 

Meet the Congresswoman Trying to Remove Barriers to Opportunity for People with Records


 

The 25-Percent Rate for Pass-Through Businesses Helps Rich Investors, Not “Small” Businesses


 

The GOP Tax Plan Fails the Children: By not expanding the Child Tax Credit, Republicans have missed a chance to help every struggling American family.


 

What’s Even Scarier Than Donald Trump?  Take a look at the Senate budget.


 

41 Million Americans Are Food Insecure. Why Are the Media Ignoring Them?  Trump overwhelms the news, helping the robber-baron class more quietly pillage the country.


 

Trump ally Robert Kraft revealed as longtime owner of offshore firm: The New England Patriots’ billionaire boss is among several major US sports team owners who appear in the Paradise Papers


 

Trump Is Creating a Grifter Economy: The White House’s economic plans help the scheming and powerful swindle ordinary Americans.


 

All About Eva: Reforming our educational system requires more than just opportunity.


 

America’s Dental Gap Has Left People Relying on Pliers, Chisels, and Whiskey: A free clinic fights decay in Tennessee.


 

Tax Bill Provision Would Clobber Seniors: Loss of medical expense deduction would mean huge tax increase for some older Americans


 

McConnell to NYT: I 'misspoke' on tax increase for middle class in Senate plan


 

The GOP Tax Plan is a Threat to National Security


 

Special Investigation: How America’s Biggest Bank Paid Its Fine for the 2008 Mortgage Crisis—With Phony Mortgages!  Alleged fraud put JPMorgan Chase hundreds of millions of dollars ahead; ordinary homeowners, not so much.


 

When I Can No Longer Work, I Will Be Destitute. What Can I Do?


 

When Growing Old Means Living in Your Car, Working in an Amazon Warehouse: An interview with Nomadland author Jessica Bruder on America’s new, precarious old age.


 

Why Should Your Credit History Cost You a Job?  In most states, an employer can require a credit report as part of your job application. Elizabeth Warren wants to stop that.


 

Outsource or Not: A Serious Misreading of Coase


 

The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin


 

A Hospital Crisis is Killing Rural Communities. Trump's Rx Won't Help: Hundreds of rural hospitals are at risk of closing and Republican proposals to cut Medicaid and Medicare may be the final blow. Three Georgia counties have struggled to keep their hospitals and futures alive..


 

When Rehab Programs Stink


 

Buy Nothing at Walmart on Black Friday


 

SENATE OK’S BIG CUTS TO MEDICARE, MEDICAID TO PAY FOR TAX CUTS


 

Trump's Long History of Holding Health Care Hostage


 

The Republican Plan to Rob America: Massive tax cuts will starve public investment for years to come.


 

NAFTA Negotiators Send Corporate Whiners Back To Swamp


 

Thanks, Boy Scouts, But the Girls have their Own Thing


 

Wages Are Growing, Contrary To What You Read In The Papers: But a change in Federal Reserve policy could bring it to an end.


 

Amazon, Taxpayer Subsidies and Worker Safety


 

So Many Tax Lies, So Little Time: Three figures can explain the impact of Donald Trump’s tax plan.


 

Contraception and False Science


 

Defanging Debt, Denigrating Austerity


 

How Big Corporations Game Our Democracy Into Their Plutocracy


 

Equifax ‘Shared’ Your Data, But Congress is on the Case


 

Both Senate and House tax bills bust the Byrd Rule, can't pass without Democratic support


 

How Business Unionism Got Us to Janus


 

Trump taps former pharmaceutical industry executive to lead HHS


 

This little-discussed part of the GOP tax bill proves what it’s really about

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