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How America’s Elite Colleges Breed High-Status Careers—and Misery

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To say that Justin Portela never imagined himself as a highly paid business consultant at McKinsey & Company would be an understatement. He didn’t have a privileged upbringing, to put it mildly, and in 2018, when he first walked onto the Stanford University campus, Portela, like most incoming freshmen, was unaware such careers even existed. […]

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“Abundance” Lobby Uses Trendy Words to Hide Same Old Attacks on the Environment

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The “abundance” climate agenda is little more than a progressive repackaging of trickle-down, anti-regulatory economics.

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Medicaid Cuts Threaten Life-Saving Care for Rural Black Families

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Experts worry a lack of access could lead to death and chronic illnesses, and worsen economic disparities.

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How a Rich Dad’s Obsession With the Estate Tax Nearly Tore His Family Apart

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Amid the rancor and rhetoric of the fight over the “big, beautiful bill,” we heard many a story about Americans likely to suffer as a result of it—families who might lose access to elder care and food stamps and homes and health insurance and other important things. Largely missing were insiders’ views of the kinds […]

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AFL-CIO Report Finds That CEOs Made 285 Times More Than Their Workers Last Year

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The CEOs in the report can also avoid paying an extra $738 million in income taxes thanks to Trump’s budget legislation.

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Trump Is Trying to Dismantle Public Health — and Replace It With a Police State

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It’s time to return to the kind of bottom-up struggle that helped establish modern public health in the first place.

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Decades of Neoliberalism Entrenched US Inequality. Trump’s Budget Made It Worse.

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Factoring in tariffs, the lowest 20 percent of income earners may lose $300; the top 1 percent will be $58,000 richer.

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The Big Bad Republican Bill Wasn’t Regressive Enough for the Anti-Tax Crusaders

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It is apparently not enough for America’s anti-tax crusaders that Congress just passed one of the most expensive and regressive tax bills in our history. The Washington Post reports that Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform and other conservative groups are now urging the Trump administration to change how investment profits are taxed—unilaterally, if need […]

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Connecticut Pilots a Better Way for Unhoused Kids and Caregivers to Access Homes

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Connecticut’s “Head Start on Housing” program could serve as a blueprint for other states nationwide.

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