Annie Lowrey
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Edgard Garrido / Reuters More Taxes, Less Death?
A new task force is urging developing countries to put levies on candy and soda, as many do on cigarettes and alcohol.
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Daniel Becerril / Reuters Low-Wage Workers Finally Get a Raise
Full employment and state policies are aiding the working poor, though some companies are giving Trump's tax cut the credit.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Great, Overlooked Tax Policy for Getting People to Work
Yet more evidence piles up for effectiveness of the Earned Income Tax Credit.
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David Ryder / Getty Bitcoin 'Is Just Like the Dot-Com Bubble'
Joseph Borg, a securities regulator, worries that the newfangled investment phenomenon is inspiring old-fashioned irrational exuberance.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Trickle-Down Mythmaking Begins
Several companies gave out raises after tax cuts passed Congress. But that was probably already going to happen anyway.
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Gene Blevins / Reuters The Most Expensive Weather Year Ever
Economists are tallying the damage from the fires and the hurricanes, and finding their true costs immeasurable.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The United States Is Already a Low-Tax Country
The Republican tax cuts would make it an even lower-tax country, and a lower-benefit one too.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Who Broke the Economy?
The authors of a new book argue that government regulations have been giving an unfair advantage to those already on top.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The 7 Myths of the GOP Tax Bill
It will supercharge growth, help the middle class, and boost workers’ pay. Or will it?
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Ramona Ring The Great Recession Is Still With Us
The downturn left the country poorer and more unequal than it would have been otherwise.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Damage to Children's Health Insurance Is Already Being Done
Congressional dithering has left an effective, popular program for low-income kids teetering on the brink, despite bipartisan support for its renewal.
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John Gress / Getty The U.S. Isn’t Prepared for the Next Recession
When it comes—and it will, eventually—it’ll be worse than necessary.
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Steve Crisp / Reuters The Inequality Beneath the Sexual-Harassment Headlines
The problem is worse in low-profile, low-accountability, and low-wage industries.
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Emily Kask / AFP / Getty Americans Are Sending Too Much Stuff to Houston
… and not enough cash.
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Julie Jacobson / AP America's Child-Poverty Rate Has Hit a Record Low
It fell thanks to government policies, not the expansion of the economy, researchers found.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Are States Really More Efficient Than the Federal Government?
Political scientists and economists don't think so, but many Republicans—who want to turn national programs over to local control—do.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump Says His Tax Plan Won't Benefit the Rich—He's Exactly Wrong
When the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center analyzed the proposal, it found that the vast majority of benefits would go to corporations and the top 1 percent of earners.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Republicans' Tax Blueprint Declines to Answer Some Hard Questions
The plan the president has started promoting seems to optimize for congressional wiggle room.
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Joe Raedle / Getty When Will the Economy Start Caring About Home-Care Work?
One of the fastest-growing occupations has meager pay and benefits—a problem that might become more urgent as the population continues to age.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump's Faux Breakup With His Manufacturing Council
The president is getting along just fine with big business.
