Congress holds first hearings on insulin, high drug
prices
Donald Trump nominates man whose firm tripled price of
insulin to regulate drug companies
Alex Azar would be ‘a star for better healthcare and
lower drug prices’, Mr Trump said
U.S. Uninsured Rate Rises to Four-Year High
Howard Schultz would rather you not refer to billionaires
as billionaires, please
'Worst tax return in a decade! He's lost my vote':
Taxpayers lash out at Trump for Tax Cuts and Job Act 'scam' as IRS data shows
refunds are smaller than last year
U.S. Treasury Set to Borrow $1 Trillion for a Second Year
to Finance the Deficit
Florida Teacher Fired for Giving Zeros to Students Who
Don’t Turn in Their Work
"Unsettled Status" - Yet Another #Brexit
Nightmare
Grandmother whose entire family is settled in UK told to
leave country: Exclusive: Sixty-three-year-old ordered to return to Sri Lanka
and leave behind her partner, children and grandchildren because her recently
retired husband ‘doesn’t earn enough’
Fox News anchors lose their minds after channel's own
poll finds people want to tax the rich
Italy’s slump reflects trouble both at home and abroad:
The weak economy complicates a fraught fiscal position
How big is the wage penalty for mothers? Huge in Germany, not so big in Denmark
The problem with the Green New Deal: A deeply unserious
proposal to tackle climate change
As Wasserman Schultz Exemplifies Muddled Stance, This
Reminder: Medicare for All "Ain't a Slogan. It's a 94-Page
Bill". "There's only one bill
in the Senate that guarantees healthcare as a right, saves families and
businesses thousands a year, and reduces total national healthcare expenditures
by at least $2 trillion over 10 years."
Battery Safety Could Save Your Home
The fire danger hiding in household batteries
Common Sense Fire Safety in the Home
Transportation task force considering 10 cent gas tax
increase
On FDR's 137th Birthday, 200+ Democrats Unveil Bill to
Expand Social Security So 'Seniors Can Retire in Dignity': "The Secure
2100 Act would increase Social Security's modest benefits for the 63 million
Americans receiving them today, as well as every single American who will
receive them in the future."
'Foxconn Was a Major Con': Backed by Trump Promises and
$4 Billion in Subsidies, Company Admits Factory Jobs Not Coming. "Foxconn took Wisconsin for a ride.
Other states, beware the allure of the mega deal."
For Dell’s Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a
Joke: Michael Dell falsely argues that top marginal tax rates as high as 70
percent have never worked
A Huge Step Forward In The Quest To Expand Social
Security: Social Security is the most universal, secure, fair and efficient
source of retirement income that we have, providing a guaranteed,
inflation-protected benefit that one will never outlive
For Fact’s Sake: Trump did not create the 'greatest' U.S.
economy. President Trump says his
economy is the greatest in the history of the United States – but
#ForFactsSake, Stephanie Ruhle and Ali Velshi break down the recent statement
from Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, and explain what we can and can’t give
credit to the President for.
‘BBC policy on Brexit is not impartial’: Why is the BBC
giving so much time to hardline Brexiteers, asks journalist Raymond Snoddy
Anti-Europe Parties Set to Win a Third of European
Parliament Seats, Study Says
Online petition calls for selling Montana to Canada to
solve national debt
Grassroots Models of a Just Future: Learning from Black
Radicalism in Detroit
National debt tops $22 trillion for first time in U.S.
history
QATAR SHOCKED, SHOCKED TO LEARN IT ACCIDENTALLY BAILED
OUT JARED KUSHNER: Doha insists it was an “unwitting” partner in the deal.
Big Pharma Is America’s New Mafia: Pharmaceutical
companies have more power than ever, and the American people are paying the
price—too often with our lives.
How Democrats plan to shrink the gender pay gap: The
Paycheck Fairness Act is ambitious, and obvious.
More than 7 million Americans are seriously behind on
their car payments: "More and more people are buying too much car for what
they can afford," said one consumer advocate.
The Medicare-for-All Trap: Most issues will strongly
favor the Democrats in 2020. Taking away people’s health insurance is an
exception.
The Abortion Debate: And is Medicare for All even
possible?
What Kamala Harris’ backtrack means for Medicare for all
'Medicare for All' is not a fantasy
Emigrating From the U.S. May Be the Only Way To Afford
Eldercare: A nursing home for my mother in Germany would cost less than half of
what she pays in Sacramento.
A Tax the Rich Can’t Avoid: New income is only a fraction
of their fortunes—we need to target their wealth.
Kamala Harris Didn’t Just Flip-Flop on Medicare for All
We can figure out universal coverage without
Medicare-for-All
Real life 'Shawshank Redemption': Ex-con robs bank,
hoping to be sent back to prison
Britain's best chance of revenge for its lost Brexit is
to remain in the EU
India Can’t Afford to Guarantee Income: For all the talk
of helping the poor in the next budget, politicians would do better to make the
breakthrough reforms that would create jobs.
Why everybody loves Universal Basic Income: The Budget
has promised an assured income to farmers, Rahul Gandhi a minimum income
guarantee, and Sikkim a universal basic income by 2022. Back in 2016-2017, the
Economic Survey said UBI was an idea whose time was ripe for discussion. As
that talk picks up in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections, The Indian Express
parses the debate, starting from India’s only two pilot projects
Fake News About Abortion in Virginia: No, Democrats
aren’t trying to legalize infanticide.
Democrats Overplay Their Hand on Abortion: In New York
and Virginia, state governments are working to loosen restrictions on late-term
abortion—and giving the anti-abortion movement an opportunity.
It’s Both Difficult and Incredibly Important to Make the
Case for Third-Trimester Abortions
Most Americans Support Increasing Taxes on the Wealthy:
Poll
National Tracking Poll #190202, February 01-02, 2019,
Crosstabulation Results
'Superbug gene' found in one of the most remote places on
Earth
Bernie Sanders Has a Plan to Tax the Rich That’s About As
Radical as What Teddy Roosevelt Proposed: When the senator proposes a 77
percent tax on the value of an estate above $1 billion, he’s talking about
renewing American values.
TRUMP IS REFUSING TO PAY CONTRACTORS FOR WORK DURING THE
SHUTDOWN: The president has a long history of stiffing people who work for him.
U.S. Healthcare Ranked Worst In The Developed World
Americans are finally finding out they got royally
screwed by the Republican tax scam
US government says ‘pink slime’ can now be called ground
beef: With the reclassification, you may now be purchasing ground beef with
added 'ground beef'
Nobel Prize-Winning Economist: We're Headed for
Oligarchy: Robert Solow on powerful families’ threat to democratic
institutions.
De Blasio rips into AOC’s Amazon opposition: Working
people ‘want jobs’
It takes more than 7 years to save up for a down payment:
Down payment savings time has increased in most markets.
Unemployment Looks Like 2000 Again. But Wage Growth
Doesn’t. Trying to solve an economic
mystery. And people long thought to be
out of the labor force permanently are coming back in.
Why Aren't Wages Keeping Up? It's Not The Economy, It's
Management
Fed Signals End of Interest Rate Increases: Jerome H.
Powell, the Federal Reserve chairman, said the Fed would be “patient” in
evaluating the health of the economy given “global economic and financial
developments and muted inflation pressures.”
This Is What It Sounds Like When Fed Doves Cry: Jerome
Powell makes about as drastic a reversal as a central banker could possibly
pull off within six weeks. Plus Brazil versus Mexico, and Brexit follies.
The Fed Apologizes: Powell continues his rehabilitation
tour, and markets applaud.
Fed having a deep effect despite crisis conditions
nowhere to be seen
Oops! An Awkward Jobs Report for the Fed: The Federal
Reserve said the case for raising rates had weakened. Then came the jobs
report.
This is what happens when you try to sue your boss
Foreign Steel Keeps Flowing Into U.S. Despite Tariffs:
Soaring prices fatten profits of domestic producers, but foreign makers’ share
of market remains significant
Steelmakers Find Strength to Expand Under Tariffs: Nucor,
Steel Dynamics, others expect efficient mills to make profits even if prices
fall
Trump welcomes new UK-US deal, promising to 'very, very
substantially' increase trade after Brexit
US president praises 'very good trading relationship'
after agreement to continue terms of EU deal
The World's Richest People Lost $511 Billion in 2018
1 in 3 middle-class families struggle with financial
insecurity
US antitrust enforcement falls to slowest rate since
1970s: Drop in criminal cases brought by DoJ in Trump era despite calls for
tougher action
Hemming and Hawing: Maternity Leave. According to one poll, 93 percent of
Americans agree that mothers should receive some paid leave. So why is the U.S.
one of the only industrialized nations without institutional support for
mothers?
Free the Free Press from Wall Street Plunderers: Local
ownership of the press matters, as some 1,300 of our towns have learned after
Wall Street’s corporate demigods of greed swept in to seize their paper, gut
its journalistic mission, and devour its assets.
How "Constitutional Economics" Can Restore
Order, Justice, and Faith in Government.
Why It Matters: Recommendations for what needs to be recognized and
enforced by U.S. judges and lawyers, not only here in the United States, but
wherever the U.S. has an economic presence.
Smart Ass Cripple: FDA Needs to Stop the Electric
Shocking of People. Only one place uses
these devices, and it uses them to control the behavior of people with autism
and other disabilities.
Six Ways Betsy DeVos Gets Teachers’ Unions Wrong: DeVos’s
antagonism toward unions shows not only her disrespect for teachers but also
how her animosity toward organized teachers warps her understanding of issues.
UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME DEFINED
'I will never say no': D.C. restaurant goes viral for
5-year tradition of feeding the homeless
After Winning a $15 Minimum Wage, Fast Food Workers Now
Battle Unfair Firings
The 116th Congress can improve Medicare and Social
Security
Democrats move to prevent foreclosures, evictions on
unpaid federal workers: 22 Democrats introduce legislation to protect federal
workers
Building More and Doing Better
Expert panel advises against surgery for shoulder pain
With the passing of Harvard scholar Roderick McFarquhar,
is deeper learning dying?
Charlie Baker is not punishing drug company success by
challenging costs
Emergency Planners Warned Of No-Deal Food Shortage Risks
– Just One Month Before Brexit: The government has written to groups across the
country asking them to prepare for "worst case scenario".
The border wall stalemate is nothing next to Britain’s
Brexit crisis and what it reveals about Western democracies’ populist revolts:
Richard M. Perloff (Opinion)
Once Militantly Anti-Abortion, Evangelical Minister Now
Lives 'With Regret'
Memoirist: Evangelical Purity Movement Sees Women's
Bodies As A 'Threat'
First-Ever Evictions Database Shows: 'We're In the Middle
Of A Housing Crisis'
'Reluctant Psychonaut' Michael Pollan Embraces The 'New
Science' Of Psychedelics
Memoirist Retraces Her Journey From Survivalist Childhood
To Cambridge Ph.D.
How 'Bad Medicine' Dismisses And Misdiagnoses Women's
Symptoms
‘This One Here Is Gonna Kick My Butt’—Farm Belt
Bankruptcies Are Soaring: Trade disputes over agriculture add pain to low
commodity prices that have been grinding down American farmers for years
Green New Deal fears: Will AOC rustle our cows?
Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Catherine Cortez Masto
(D-NV), and Dick Durbin (D-IL) pushed back against a Senate resolution to slash
the amount of time allotted for debate and consideration of all judicial and
most executive-branch nominees from 30 post-cloture hours to two post-cloture
hours.
Federal Watchdog Issues Scathing Report On Ed
Department's Handling Of Student Loans
When Teens Threaten Violence, A Community Responds With
Compassion
Anger, Confusion Over Dwindling Refunds. Is Trump's Tax
Plan To Blame?
A Neuroscientist Explores The Biology Of Addiction In
'Never Enough'
NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity Is Officially Declared Dead
‘It’s like Pompeii again if Pompeii voted for the
volcano’ – US show takes down Brexit
Brexit causing ‘palpable decline’ in UK influence at the
UN: Diplomats suggest Britain’s leverage on world stage will be weaker after EU
departure
Brexit III: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Filthy rich, owing no taxes
'BLACK MIRROR' IN CHINA? 1.4 BILLION CITIZENS TO BE
MONITORED THROUGH SOCIAL CREDIT SYSTEM
'We're all passengers in a billionaire hijacking' says
the critic who has the world's richest people buzzing
Britain already disengaging from Europe as UK government
pulls funding from unique European research institute
Donald Trump nominates man whose firm tripled price of
insulin to regulate drug companies: Alex Azar would be ‘a star for better
healthcare and lower drug prices’, Mr Trump said
Politicians must stop sugaring the pill on hard Brexit
choices: Britain faces mission impossible in trying to get good trade deals and
talk of the benefits of WTO terms is a fantasy, argues Sir Ivan Rogers
Could A Good Night's Sleep Protect You From Heart
Disease?
DoD and civilian doctors, pharmacies now sharing
information about opioid prescriptions, watching for abuse
VA North Texas eliminates liver tumors, returns patients
home the same day
The simple – and complicated – task of shoveling snow
Heart valve diseases
Stroke Information Page
Personal finance, taxes, etc.
Personal finance, time shares, etc.
Smart Ways to Spend Your Tax Refund
What happens if my SSDI or SSI claim is denied?
Scam Alert: Look Out for Too Good to be True Sales
Scam Alert: Don’t Pick Up for Fake Medicare Calls
NRV Agency on Aging warns of Medicare scam
Tax Forms. For
2018, you will no longer use Form 1040A or Form 1040EZ as you may have in the
past. Instead, you will use the redesigned Form 1040, which now has six new
numbered schedules in addition to the existing schedules such as Schedule
A. To download your forms, go to https://apps.irs.gov/app/picklist/list/formsPublications.html
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