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Who Pays Taxes in America in 2024
Who Pays Taxes in America in 2024
America's tax system is just barely progressive, and not nearly as progressive as many suggest or as progressive as it could be. There is plenty of room for lawmakers to improve the progressivity of the tax code to combat economic, wealth, and racial inequality.
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Who Pays Taxes in America in 2024
A New Pacific Trade Highway - FEE
A New Pacific Trade Highway - FEE
When President Trump announced a new 100% tariff on Chinese imports, in retaliation for Beijing’s latest export controls on rare earth elements, markets saw
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A New Pacific Trade Highway - FEE
Capitalism Connected Guatemala - FEE
Capitalism Connected Guatemala - FEE
Can you imagine having to drive for 12 hours just to make a phone call? Or being on a 20-year waitlist to be able to buy a landline? That was the reality of
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Capitalism Connected Guatemala - FEE
New User Trends on Wikipedia
New User Trends on Wikipedia
Isiwal, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons In March, the Wikimedia Foundation shared about the global trends that are impacting our movement. These trends have continued to shape not only the Wikim…
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New User Trends on Wikipedia
Taking A Bite Out of the Competition
Taking A Bite Out of the Competition
Smucker’s is suing Trader Joe’s over a crustless PB&J sandwich. The lawsuit isn’t about peanut butter or jelly. It’s about how companies stay different in markets where everything looks the same.
·mondayeconomist.com·
Taking A Bite Out of the Competition
Beyond the Welfare State - FEE
Beyond the Welfare State - FEE
Since the launch of the War on Poverty in the 1960s, the rate of those living in poverty, as defined by the US government, has stubbornly persisted. Yet
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Beyond the Welfare State - FEE
Spain Burns - FEE
Spain Burns - FEE
Some laws extinguish fires; others ignite them. In Spain, a country that has mastered the art of legislating against reality, we have more of the second kind.
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Spain Burns - FEE
Escape from the Haunted Mansion: A Halloween Activity - Blog
Escape from the Haunted Mansion: A Halloween Activity - Blog
Think Halloween and Personal Finance have nothing in common? Think again! Bring the spirit of Halloween into your classroom with the Escape from the Haunted Mansion activity.   This Google Form virtual escape room has students solve a series of personal finance related mysteries to find the Golden Budget Book!  Featuring spooky Halloween language and images, your students will be immersed in a Halloween activity they’re sure to remember!  PREMISE: As the sun sets, the towering Hawthorn Mansion casts its shadows over the town of Elmridge.
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Escape from the Haunted Mansion: A Halloween Activity - Blog
Where Are the Omelets?
Where Are the Omelets?
“One can’t expect to make an omelet without breaking eggs.” With those words in 1790, Maximilian Robespierre welcomed the horrific French Revolution that had begun the year before. Robespierre and his guillotine broke eggs by the thousands in a vain effort to impose a utopian society based on the seductive slogan “liberté, égalité, fraternité.” But, alas, Robespierre never made a single omelet. Nor did any of the other thugs who held power in the decade after 1789. They left France in moral, political, and economic ruin, and ripe for the dictatorship of Napoleon Bonaparte. As with Robespierre, no omelets came from the egg-breaking efforts of Lenin, Mao, Pol Pot, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini, either.
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Where Are the Omelets?
Europe’s Striking Syndrome - FEE
Europe’s Striking Syndrome - FEE
The strike that closed almost all of London’s underground network for four days in mid-September is estimated to have cost the UK economy £230 million ($307
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Europe’s Striking Syndrome - FEE