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John Minchillo / AP How the Tax Plan Will Send Jobs Overseas
Companies are going to be able to save a ton of money by locating factories abroad.
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Aaron P. Bernstein / Reuters The Republican Tax Plan Isn't About Simplification
GOP leaders say they want to simplify the tax code—but their plan asks working families for sacrifices, while delivering benefits to corporations and the wealthiest Americans.
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Bill Pugliano / Getty How Trump's Corporate-Tax Plan Could Send American Jobs Overseas
The president maintains his proposal would limit offshoring. A major provision of it would do just the opposite.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters A Tax Proposal That Could Lift Millions Out of Poverty
The Earned Income Tax Credit is one of the country’s most effective anti-poverty policies, but it mostly leaves out a huge segment of workers: those without children.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters There's Nothing Bipartisan About Medicaid Cuts
Republicans looking to Bill Clinton to defend cuts to the health-care program for low-income Americans are distorting history.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP How the Senate's Health-Care Bill Would Cause Financial Ruin for People With Preexisting Conditions
Republicans are going to insist otherwise, but that’s simply not the case.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Fuzzy Claims Used to Justify Cutting Social Security Disability Insurance
Republican leaders characterize the program and its recipients in ways that do not hold up to scrutiny.
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Winfried Rothermel / AP Don't Cut the Estate Tax—Raise It
President Trump's plan will likely advocate for the repeal of a tax that only the ultra-wealthy pay.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Six Ways to Tell If Trump Is Sabotaging Obamacare
The president appears to be rooting for the Affordable Care Act to fail. Here’s a guide to determine whether he’s laying the groundwork.
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Larry Downing / Reuters Sesame Street Isn’t Just for Affluent Kids
Trump’s proposed budget would eliminate funding for public broadcasting, which has a proven record of helping kids in poor families.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The AHCA’s Tradeoff: Giving Up Vital Care to Get Tax Cuts for the Rich
Out of all the interest groups involved in the American health system, the current Republican proposal focuses on rewarding the country’s highest earners.
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USA Today Sports / Reuters How Barack Obama Is Like Jim Harbaugh
Every football fan in the country understands that there can be dramatic improvement and still disappointment. But when it comes to assessing the 44th president’s legacy, people can’t seem to accept anything less than perfect.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Government Economists Are Going to Produce Statistics Trump Doesn't Like
When they do, how will he respond?
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Justice in the Middle
On the jurisprudence of Sandra Day O'Connor, possibly the swing vote on the new Supreme Court
