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Two years later, every promise made about the GOP tax cuts has been broken

The tax plan has benefited the wealthy while ballooning the deficit.




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How can Democrats possibly challenge Trump on this economy? These charts might help.

Democrats' message that not everyone is equally benefiting from the spoils of this economic recovery has resonance.




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Free college for everyone? School presidents aren’t impressed.

They know more than anyone how difficult it is to get funding for colleges.




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Here are four suggested New Year’s resolutions for the media

I hope others in my industry will adopt them — and call me out if I don’t.




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A number cruncher told the truth. He became his country’s public enemy No. 1.

Andreas Georgiou offered an honest accounting of Greece’s financial situation. He’s still paying for it.




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Don’t root for a recession to knock out Trump

There are better ways to challenge Trump on the economy.




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It’s time for some red states to do the right thing and accept refugees

Studies prove that resettlement benefits communities as a whole. So why are some governors still balking?




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She moved to Texas for safety. Now the state wants to keep out refugees like her.

Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision plays into some unfortunate stereotypes.




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Trade was supposed to be Trump’s signature issue. His efforts have fallen flat.

Whatever meager gains Trump’s trade deals represent hardly look worth the pain we endured getting here.




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Trump says he hates corruption. But he wants to make bribery easier worldwide.

“It’s just so unfair that American companies aren’t allowed to pay bribes to get business overseas.”




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Trump’s Treasury secretary just admitted the tariff rationale is hogwash

Maybe it was the altitude at Davos.




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Our expectations for Republican senators are so low it’s astonishing

Every single one of them is supposed to be exercising oversight of the executive branch.




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Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda isn’t about rule of law or economics at all

The latest immigration rule is based on obvious lies.




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On health care, is Trump malicious or just incompetent? Yes.

New cuts are actually expansions, according to Mike Pence.




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Worried Trump might weaponize the presidency? He already has, many times.

He did it in the Ukraine affair, of course, but most of his abuses have happened closer to home.




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Yes, Trump’s latest Fed pick is that bad. Here’s why.

Judy Shelton is an opportunist and a quack. Senate Republicans seem to know this — but they still may be too craven to oppose her nomination.




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This latest trick from the Trump administration is one of the most despicable yet

A new policy is keeping hundreds of families from obtaining visas




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How Trump’s failure to learn from history is making your whiskey a lot more expensive

It’s another way in which the president’s supposedly narrowly focused tariffs have trickled down.




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The Trump administration’s green card Catch-22

Now immigrants can be denied green cards partly because they’re applying for green cards.




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A socialist is likely to win the 2020 election. No, not Bernie Sanders.

How the president has proved himself a more successful socialist than Sanders is likely to ever be.




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With coronavirus, Trump’s lies and his reassurances backfire

Americans have not only health risks but also economic fears.




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The 2020 elections are being driven by health care. That’s good news for Democrats.

Republican incompetence and heartlessness are again coming to Democrats’ rescue.




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You’ll never guess how Trump is celebrating National Consumer Protection Week

The Trump administration continues its war on consumers




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This is the YOLO presidency

Trump’s not used to consequences, but he’s also not immune.




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Officials have spent the last few years dismantling anti-recession measures

And now, we’re woefully unprepared.




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A global recession is likely here. Lawmakers need to do their jobs.

Policymakers need to step up and do something useful — yesterday.




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America is going into an economic coma. Here’s how we (eventually) wake up from it.

A framework for how Congress should be thinking about the immediate economic challenges ahead — and the tools available to address them.




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No, the airlines do not need a bailout

Save that funding for smaller businesses, and let carriers declare bankruptcy as they have in the past.




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Wanna spend $2 trillion? Here’s the agonizing choice you face.

Money needs to get spent fast. Money needs to get spent well. To some extent, those objectives are in tension.




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States and cities should brace themselves for a downward spiral

Some states still haven’t recovered from the last recession. They could face worse now.




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Saving lives in the pandemic will also save the economy in the long run

Economists are in agreement that returning to business as usual too soon could have devastating effects for GDP as well as human lives.




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The next threat: Hunger in America

As demand at food banks has surged, donations from local grocers and supermarkets have plummeted.




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This could be a long fight. People should be told the truth.

We won’t get better outcomes with a government that repeatedly overpromises and underdelivers.




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How Trump is sabotaging the coronavirus rescue plan

And how Congress can rein him in.




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The covid-19 pandemic has revealed another area of critical government underinvestment

Archaic computer technology is hampering the effort to combat the effects of covid-19 in the United States.




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This ‘dreamer’ is saving lives during this pandemic. She wants a chance at normal life.

Young medical students and health-care workers simply want to keep contributing in the only home they know.




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Trump has almost nothing to lose. That’s why he wants to reopen the economy.

Reopening the country may be bad from a public health standpoint, but the president is pushing for it anyway.




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It appears the Trump administration is doing all it can to drive away health professionals

The administration’s crackdown on immigration makes it harder to staff a health-care system facing chronic worker shortages.




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Why Tom Cotton’s immigration idea makes no sense

America only benefits from U.S.-trained scientists.




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We’re all Zelensky now

Trump is all about the favors. Even when it concerns our livelihood.




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If they’re heroes, pay and protect them like heroes

Those taking on great risk should be appropriately compensated.




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The White House’s coronavirus cure is even more magical than we could have imagined

Tax cuts are the GOP’s all-purpose remedy. Even for the coronavirus.




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Trump brings his industry back to the ’80s at last

Trump's own industry — leisure and hospitality — saw all its job gains since 1988 wiped out.




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News24.com | Covid-19 wrap | China slams US after Trump virus 'attack' claim, India repatriation to begin and Poland, Syria postpone elections due to pandemic

Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis.




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News24.com | US rocked by another unarmed black man being shot dead

Politicians, celebrities and people speaking out on social media are angrily demanding the arrest of two white men in the shooting death of an unarmed black jogger in Georgia.




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News24.com | WATCH | Here are the countries with the highest number of Covid-19 cases

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