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Congress has signed off on a $3.4 trillion legislative package featuring new tax breaks, spending cuts, and more funding for ...
Rich people shouldn’t be the only ones to own our city blocks. It's not sustainable. When we solve this problem and make ownership accessible to everyone, the impact will be immeasurable.
Depending on the day, my number varies between $1 million and $50 million. My friend says she can be happy with $100,000. Another sets her limit at $10 million. All of us have calculated a number ...
Chicago’s Marianne Bertrand says policymakers have any number of tools at their disposal – smarter antitrust policies, an expanded Earned Income Tax Credit, minimum wage hikes, even a ...
The families and children are not eligible because the family income is too low. Families don’t receive any tax credit for the first $2,500 they earn. After that, the credit phases in at only 15 cents ...
Why many ‘essential’ workers get paid so little, according to experts There are four key reasons, economists say, including an entrenched power differential April 6, 2020 More than 5 years ago ...
“It can get people who are winning at the game of life — who have more money, who have more privilege, who have more power — to think about their resources as things that they deserve; to be ...
Big, beautiful bill’ would be the largest upward transfer of wealth in American history, according to analysts. And it will ...
Just last month, PayScale revealed the pay bestowed upon the CEOs of 100 publicly held companies -- right alongside the median pay for the average worker at each specific company. It's a real eye ...
The economist John Maynard Keynes predicted a society so prosperous that people would hardly have to work. But that isn’t exactly how things have played out.