US Investment Alone Won’t Solve Central America’s Migrant Crisis
USA Vice President Kamala Harris met Guatemala’s President and community leaders to discuss migration and corruption control. – Guatemala – Guatemala City 06-07-2021 (Shutterstock)…
Congress Must act to Correct Flaws in the First Step Act
By Eric Gonzalez and Kassandra Frederique, The Hill
A unanimous Supreme Court last week held that people convicted of certain low-level crack cocaine offenses …
Obamacare: US Supreme Court Upholds Affordable Healthcare Law
By BBC
The US Supreme Court has upheld the law which aims to provide affordable health insurance for all Americans, dismissing a legal challenge …
Is Tax Avoidance Ethical? Asking on Behalf of a few Billionaire Friends
By Erin Bass, The Conversation
Some of the U.S.‘s wealthiest individuals reportedly pay just a tiny fraction of the billions of dollars added annually …
US Super-Rich ‘Pay Almost no Income tax’
Jeff Bezos arrives at the Statue Of Liberty Museum Opening Celebration at Battery Park – New York, NY – May 15, 2019 (Shutterstock)
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You May be Paying a Higher Tax Rate Than a Billionaire
A new ProPublica analysis of a trove of IRS documents revealed that the richest 25 Americans pay a tiny fraction of their wealth in taxes. But even if you use the most conventional yardstick — income — the wealthiest still pay low rates.
By Paul Kiel, Jeff Ernsthausen and Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica
The very richest Americans win at the tax game no matter which measure you use. …
Vice President Harris Launches a Call to Action to the Private Sector to Deepen Investment in the Northern Triangle
U.S. Senator Kamala Harris launches her campaign for President of the United States at a rally at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in her hometown …
Senate Confirms Kristen Clarke as First Woman — and First Black Woman — to Lead the Civil Rights Division
U.S. Department of Justice/FBI Emblem on the Outside Entrance wall of The FBI Building in Washington, D.C. Shot on November 24, 2017. (Shutterstock)
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Why Liz Cheney Matters
Her ouster is a sign of the Republican Party’s growing discomfort with democracy.
‘Dangerously anti-democratic’
The Republican Party’s big recent moves — the ouster of Liz Cheney from a leadership position and the passage of new state …
U.S. Travel Leaders Urge Biden To Reopen International Travel
By Travel Agent Central
Leaders of 23 global travel companies sent a letter to President Joe Biden Tuesday urging greater progress toward reopening international travel—as is …