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President Donald Trump marked Social Security’s 90th birthday on Thursday afternoon, celebrating his administration’s commitment to the program even as it remains in dire need of a fix.
Mississippi policymakers this year took a big step to worsen the state’s racial income and wealth divides by passing a ...
Last week, President Trump fired the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics in apparent retaliation for weak jobs ...
The Trump megabill delivers a trillion-dollar windfall to the richest 1% while stripping billions in federal funding from ...
Maryland is taking aim at income and racial disparities through a revised personal income tax. By raising taxes on high ...
As states prepare for the revenue loss and disruption resulting from the federal tax bill, tax policy is being considered in ...
A growing number of blue cities and states across the country, from Washington state to Rhode Island, are looking at ways to wring more revenue from their richest taxpayers.
In New York City, we can point to the boldface success of Zohran Mamdani as an example. Recently nominated as the Democratic mayoral candidate, his affordability push focuses on creating better ...
The rich will get richer from President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill’s tax provisions – but California’s millionaires won’t get as much of a benefit as their counterparts in most other states.
The removal of the Internal Revenue Service commissioner Billy Long after just two months in the post came after the federal tax collection agency said it could not release some information on ...
Every year, a handful of states offer shoppers a temporary tax break to encourage spending. This year, some of those “sales tax holidays” are happening as President Donald Trump’s tariffs threaten to ...
The 10th annual DACA survey illustrates the positive contributions that DACA recipients have made to America and reveals the significant, widespread disruptions that would result from ending DACA, ...