The presidential hopeful’s signature poverty-fighting policy is a bust.
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Posted inBooks
Held Down by Our Bootstraps
Author Alissa Quart says the myth of American individualism is a poor excuse for inequality.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Taxman Cometh
A new plan from the IRS lays out how the agency intends to revamp itself.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Beltway’s Favorite Bogus Budget Model
The Penn Wharton Budget Model, bankrolled by finance moguls, is out to grow its power in Washington.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Prisoners of Their Own Device
How Congress underwrites the models that trap American policymaking
Posted inEconomic Policy
Six Ways Existing Economic Models Are Killing the Economy
The alleged science doesn’t match up to the real world.
Posted inEconomic Policy
How Models Get the Economy Wrong
Seemingly complex and sophisticated econometric modeling often fails to take into account common sense and observable reality.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Closing the Earned Income Tax Credit Audit ‘Doom Loop’
More taxpayer education could get some people out of this IRS vortex, but the real issue is assumptions guiding the agency’s apparent fixation on certain Black filers.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Intuit’s Top Lobbying Firms Are Also Major DSCC Bundlers
Congress is set to receive a report on how the IRS can streamline the tax filing process after lobbyists for Intuit bundled millions for the Senate Democrats’ campaign arm.
Posted inHousing and Transportation
How Los Angeles Tenants Beat the Landlords—for Now
The rise of a renters’ movement and their electoral victories last November have reshaped some fundamental city policies.