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America, How Ya Doing?

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On December 31, 2018
2018: What a year: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for example, reported in November that life expectancy for the average American ticked downward for the third year in a row. The news attracted a storm of attention, given the record number of suicides...
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Republican Policy Preferences

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On November 1, 2018
Remember folks, Republicans hate you and don't care if you live or die. Five days ahead of the midterm elections, President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser took to trashing the minimum wage. “My view is a federal minimum wage is a terrible idea ― terrible...
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Grifters Love Grifters

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On August 8, 2018
The New Gilded Age sure looks a lot like the first Gilded Age. The first congresscritter to endorse Trump is on the board of a publicly traded company and he uses it to engage in insider trading? Perfect! The designers of Credit Mobilier couldn't ask...

More Swamp Draining

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On August 8, 2018

A shadow group of wealthy Mar-a-Lago members running the VA isn't disturbing or anything, as this great journalism from Pro Publica shows: Last February, shortly after Peter O’Rourke became chief.

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The New Gilded Age

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On July 23, 2018
The latest Economic Policy Institute report on the New Gilded Age is out and it is a go-to resource on income inequality. From the executive summary: In 2015, the top 1 percent of families in the U.S. earned, on average, 26.3 times as much income...
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