Here’s a plan that eliminates the long-term shortfall in its finances and updates the system for the 21st century.
Both parties line their pockets with profits from the arms trade.
Stephen's stance on the White House's proposed slashing of the food stamp program and children's health insurance program is somehow radical in 2017.
Compassion, says Trump's budget chief, explaining Trump's new budget, is measured in how many people you kick off social programs for poor and working people.
Seth takes a closer look at President Trump's latest travel ban block, the debunking of his wiretapping claims and his drastic new budget plan.
Thoughts that huge tax cuts to high-income households will offset a downturn in automobile sales, cuts in public spending, rising college tuition or a dismantling of the health sector are irrational. If theFed raises interests rates, it will threaten a more fragile economy than appears at the moment. The drive to be “normal” in a world that is clearly not normal, may put us in danger of a downturn that will be difficult to recover from.
The wedge between implied promises and delivered reality to working-class households already looks awfully large, and will likely just grow over time.
Corporations are stashing billions of dollars offshore to avoid paying taxes.
A FTT is an efficient and progressive revenue source. The rise of finance has been largely at the expense of other economic sectors, and that a well-designed FTT is also a very useful tool for shrinking the unproductive parts of this sector.
As the state budget impasse enters its eleventh month, Progress Illinois examines how mental health services and providers have been impacted.
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