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Atlanta’s new stadium: Boost or boondoggle?

June 24, 2013 Lindsey Garner Business, Cities, Corporations, Government, Sports Leave a comment

Football and God rarely clash in the South. But the neighborhood surrounding the future $1 billion new Falcons’ stadium may be forced to lose

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An animated fairy tale on taxes

February 28, 2013 Madonna Gauding Congress, Corporations, Economy, Government, Privatization Leave a comment

This short animated fairy tale, written and directed by Fred Glass for the California Federation of Teachers and narrated by Ed Asner, explains, in

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Lame duck hope: Logical thinking on Social Security, at long last

November 21, 2012 Gloria Shur Bilchik Congress, Democrats, Social Sec/Medicare Leave a comment

Something unexpectedly hopeful has happened in the 2012 lame duck session of Congress: Senator Mark Begic, a Democrat from Arkansas, has introduced a Social

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Lame duck: Obama’s not-so-grand bargain

November 19, 2012 Madonna Gauding Budget, Democrats, Obama, Republicans, Taxes Leave a comment

According to a leaked memo provided by Bob Woodward on last Sunday’s Meet the Press with David Gregory, Obama’s first try at a “Grand

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Robert Reich on how to reduce the deficit

November 16, 2012 Madonna Gauding Congress, Obama, Politics, Republicans, Taxes Leave a comment

In a recent blog post, Robert Reich points out that Obama won re-election, so he needs to aim much higher on the upcoming budget

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Lame duck alert: Don’t give more tax breaks to the people who need them least

November 16, 2012 Susan Cunningham Budget, Congress, Democrats, Economy, Obama, Politics, Taxes Leave a comment

The dust barely settled after the victory party in Chicago when the number crunchers turned into worker bees with a mission.  As announced in a

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America’s budget problem is a revenue problem

October 29, 2012 Madonna Gauding Economy, Government, Taxes Leave a comment

Contrary to warnings by politicians of both parties and by almost all of the mainstream press, America’s biggest fiscal problem is not spending on

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Nickel-and-diming it: Surprising tidbits in Romney’s 2011 tax return

October 16, 2012 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, Science, Taxes Leave a comment

Inequality.com took a microscopic look at Mitt Romney’s 2011 federal tax return –one of the only two he’s released—and found some surprising tidbits. It

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Wealth doesn’t trickle down when it’s parked in off shore tax havens

August 1, 2012 Madonna Gauding Economy, Government, Politics, Taxes, Voting/Elections One comment

A new study by the Tax Justice Network “The Price of Offshore Revisited” shines a light on the size of the global offshore economy—the amount of

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Obama calls for tax fairness

July 11, 2012 Madonna Gauding Corporations, Economy, Taxes Leave a comment

On Monday, July 9, President Obama urged Congress to extend the Bush tax cuts for those who make under $250,000 for one year and

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