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  • Dec 2, 2017

    The GOP’s tax reform bill could pass the Senate tonight

    U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, walks from the Senate chamber to his office today at the Capitol.
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    What could final legislation look like?

  • Dec 2, 2017

    “A Christmas Carol” was supposed to be Dickens’ moneymaker

    Circa 1954, English novelist and magazine columnist Monica Dickens reads to her children from "A Christmas Carol" by her grandfather Charles Dickens.  
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    Too bad it didn't make him any.

  • Dec 2, 2017

    Don’t forget … a federal government shutdown looms

    Don’t forget … a federal government shutdown looms
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    Some groups use their leverage on the Hill to avert a closure.

  • Dec 1, 2017

    States warning families they may lose CHIP medical coverage

    Funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program ran out at the end of September, meaning millions of kids and pregnant women won’t have coverage in the new year. There are bills in Congress that would fund the program, but nobody can agree where to get to money to do it. The $15 billion program funnels […]

  • Dec 1, 2017

    Is this the right time for a tax cut?

    The GOP tax cuts may add about 0.8 percent to GDP growth during the next 10 years, according to several budget models. But that’s economic growth for an economy that’s already heating up. And you know who you call when the economy gets too hot? The Federal Reserve. It’s the Fed’s job to come in […]

  • Dec 1, 2017

    How will corporations spend their tax cuts?

     Legislation and regulation books related to the GOP's planned tax overhaul are stacked and ready in the House Ways and Means Committee hearing room in Washington, D.C.
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    History points to companies spending tax cuts on paying dividends to shareholders.

  • Dec 1, 2017

    There’s no giving up on coal in Greene County, Pennsylvania

    Students sit in a miner training class at a career center in Greene County, Pennsylvania.
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    While there's plenty of money for free job training in health care and trucking, local workers pack coal classes instead.

  • Dec 1, 2017

    What Congress could learn from Kansas

    Making the rounds on Capitol Hill yesterday was Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback. He was talking up his tax cuts in Kansas from 2012 as a model for the GOP to follow in its national tax plan. Thing is, the five years since those Kansas tax cuts were put in place have not been kind to […]

  • Dec 1, 2017

    Trade in bitcoin at your own risk

    Bitcoin. The cryptocurrency is on a wild and volatile ride. The price of a coin has grown ten-fold in the past year, hitting a high of more than $11,000 for one bitcoin yesterday, before tumbling some 20 percent this morning. Everybody, it seems, wants in on the action. But a growing number of economists and […]

  • Dec 1, 2017

    Amazon’s Alexa wants to be your office assistant, too

    Amazon announced plans to bring its Echo devices into conference rooms and cubicles through a platform called Alexa for Business. The new feature comes through Amazon’s cloud computing business, Amazon Web Services, not its retail side, and it’s the company’s latest move in the competitive voice assistant space. To start, Alexa for Business will let […]