Only 9 percent of Americans have pensions today, compared to 44 percent in 1975.
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The system, which would enable sharing of massive amounts of sensitive data, may be launched before the end of July.
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Trump Plans to Hand Taxpayer Data to Homeland Security to Speed Up Deportations Read Post »
As a lobbyist, Ken Kies secured tax giveaways for major corporations. Now, he’s helping implement the GOP budget bill.
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“Tax-Dodging Consultant” Is Now the US Treasury’s Top Tax Policy Official Read Post »
Will Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” as critics contend, be a massive giveaway to the rich? Absolutely, when you tally it up. Yet the bill’s provisions, while devastating to the nation’s poorest, represent only modest gains for the majority of affluent families. Consider the merely rich—the top-earning 10 percent of households. The Congressional Budget […]
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Even Sky-High Income Tax Rates Won’t Stop the Relentless Rise of the Richest Read Post »
Mamdani has proposed raising taxes on corporations and the wealthy in New York City.
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Mamdani Says Billionaires Shouldn’t Exist: “What We Need More of Is Equality” Read Post »
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Democratic lawmakers led by the Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren are pressing two energy companies about their efforts to “win a $1.1 billion tax loophole” in Donald Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill. The proposed exemption, which Senate Republicans inserted into their version of […]
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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. People in affluent countries around the world are willing to tax themselves to address climate change and ease poverty. That idea defies conventional political wisdom, which typically holds that people hate taxes. It emerged in a survey of 40,680 people in […]
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Most People Support Taxing Carbon Even If It Costs Them, Global Survey Shows Read Post »
The loss of revenue could shrink access to health care for some of the nation’s poorest and most vulnerable people.
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GOP Proposals for Tax Restrictions May Defund States’ Medicaid Programs Read Post »
Trump pick Billy Long’s confirmation “signals open season for wealthy tax cheats,” said Americans for Tax Fairness.
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Former Congressman Confirmed to Head IRS, an Agency He Once Worked to Abolish Read Post »
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Dig down about a mile or two in parts of the United States and you’ll start to see the remains of an ancient ocean. The shells of long dead sea creatures are compressed into white limestone, surrounding brine aquifers with a […]
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Here’s One Biden Climate Provision Republicans Are Unlikely to Kill Read Post »
The CBO has estimated at least 15 million people would lose health care coverage due to the bill’s cuts to Medicaid.
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Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Redistributes Wealth From the Poor to the Rich Read Post »
On Friday evening, Moody’s downgraded the United States’ overall credit-rating—from the highest level of AAA—to one notch lower, AA1, based on years of rising debt and Donald Trump’s tax cut plan, which the non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Budget has calculated could add $2.5 trillion more in debt. The rating is important because it is […]
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The U.S. Just Lost Its Perfect Credit Rating Thanks to Trump’s Tax Cuts Read Post »
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