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Feb 8, 2016

Top 400 Taxpayers See Tax Rates Rise, But There’s More to the Story

As Americans were gathering party supplies to greet the New Year, the Internal Revenue Service released their annual report of cumulative tax data reported on the 400 tax r...

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Feb 4, 2016

Chlorine Bleach Plants Needlessly Endanger 63 Million Americans

Chlorine bleach plants across the U.S. put millions of Americans in danger of a chlorine gas release, a substance so toxic it has been used as a chemical weapon. Greenpeace’s new repo...

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Jan 25, 2016

U.S. Industrial Facilities Reported Fewer Toxic Releases in 2014

The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) data for 2014 is now available. The good news: total toxic releases by reporting facilities decreased by nearly six percent from 2013 levels. Howe...

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Jan 22, 2016

Methane Causes Climate Change. Here's How the President Plans to Cut Emissions by 40-45 Percent.

  UPDATE (Jan. 22, 2016): Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released its proposed rule to reduce methane emissions...

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Economy and Jobs Watch: Employment and Output Data

Get to know your data: The employment survey and GDP revisions.

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A Call to Action! A Long-Term Tax and Budget Plan

Help the national economy by working with others to develop a long-term plan on budget and tax issues.

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The Omnibus Spending Bill and the Budget Process

The omnibus appropriations legislation is still pending. While most of the criticism about the bill has focused on the amount of "pork" it contains, the real problem is the seriously flawed budget process it reflects.

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Another Weak Jobs Report

Last month, only 57,000 jobs were created - well below what is needed to employ new entrants into the labor market.

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Moving Towards Long-Term Action on Tax and Budget Issues

Our community must seize the initiative on tax and budget issues if we are ever to succeed in promoting what we stand for -- a fair, simple and equitable tax system that generates adequate resources to implement the government programs and services that Americans want. For the purposes of discussion, this paper lays out a call to action to develop a long-term, proactive strategy on federal tax and budget issues -- one that also directly confronts the negative perception of government programs and the continuous attacks launched by conservatives. Download Full Version, Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)

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Op-Ed from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Op-ed from the state of Washington ...

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Congress' Unfinished Business

Congress left for the Thanksgiving break after passing less than half of the 2004 appropriations bills that fund government.

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Economy and Jobs Watch: Consumer Debt Increases, Savings Rate Down

While very recent economic news shows some long-overdue strength – gross domestic product grew at an 8.2% annual rate in the third quarter – mounting levels of both public and private debt remain a concern, both for the near future as well for the long-run health of the economy.

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Living in the Shadow of Danger: Poverty, Race, and Unequal Chemical Facility Hazards

People of color and people living in poverty, especially poor children of color, are significantly more likely...

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A Tale of Two Retirements: One for CEOs and One for the Rest of Us

The 100 largest CEO retirement funds are worth a combined $4.9 billion, equal to the entire retirement account savings of 41 percent of American fam...

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