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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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Who Pays for Corporate Tax Dodgers? YOU DO.

Find out how multinational corporate tax cheating hurts the average tax payer. From We're Not Broke, the story of U.S. corporations dodging billions of dollars in income tax, and how seven fed-up Americans take their frustration to the streets... and vow to make the corporations pay their fair share.

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What do America's Biggest Tax Avoiding Corporations Want Now?

Big Corporations are pushing for a Territorial Tax System. Find out what it is and how it's going to affect Americans! From We're Not Broke, the story of U.S. corporations dodging billions of dollars in income tax, and how seven fed-up Americans take their frustration to the streets... and vow to make the corporations pay their fair share.

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The Truth About Corporate Tax Rates

The tax rate is 35%. Corporations complain it's too high. But how much are they really paying? From We're Not Broke, the story of U.S. corporations dodging billions of dollars in income tax...

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Tax Havens, Animated

Tax Havens 101: The high cost of going offshore, an animation by The Washington Post, illustrates how offshore tax havens allow investors to legally – and quite easily – dodge taxes and accountability. This loophole costs our country billions in lost revenue. A recent report by U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) found that these tax havens cost the average taxpayer $1,026 and each small business $3,067 each year.

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How Do Billion-Dollar Corporations Cheat America Out of Tax Revenue?

Find out how corporations use transfer pricing to shift profits offshore and get out of paying taxes in the U.S.  From We're Not Broke, the story of U.S. corporations dodging billions of dollars in income tax, and how seven fed-up Americans take their frustration to the streets... and vow to make the corporations pay their fair share.

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How Do Giant Corporations Get Away with "Legal" Tax Cheating?

 

See how multinational corporations lobby to write their own tax laws. From We're Not Broke, the story of U.S. corporations dodging billions of dollars in income tax, and how seven fed-up Americans take their frustration to the streets ... and vow to make the corporations pay their fair share.

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House Budget Plans Do Not Reflect Americans' Views on Public Investments

Sequestration's automatic cuts to federal spending are beginning to sting in communities across the country, and two of the four major congressional budget plans put forth this year are at odds with public opinion on specific areas of public investments, according to a Center for Effective Government analysis. As the Pew Research Center found in a pre-sequestration poll in February, most Americans say they support maintaining or increasing funding for specific federal programs, including education, Social Security, and Medicare.

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Americans' Views on Spending Versus Federal Budget Plans

President Barack Obama’s Fiscal Year 2014 budget request is at odds with the majority of Americans’ views on Social Security, according to recent Pew Research Center polling of some 1,500 Americans. Obama has proposed to modify how regular Social Security benefit increases are calculated by switching to a "chained" Consumer Price Index (CPI) to determine the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), which would lead to benefit cuts for Social Security recipients over time. Social Security is extremely popular with 87 percent of Americans who support maintaining or increasing spending in this area.

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Two Federal Budget Plans Stray Far from Americans' Call for Public Investments in Crucial Services, Infrastructure

WASHINGTON, April 2, 2013—In a side-by-side analysis released today, the Center for Effective Government examines a set of congressional budget proposals and contrasts them with public support for specific areas of public investments. The analysis shows that while the American people strongly support maintaining or increasing funding for Social Security, Medicare, education, and road and bridge repair, two of the four budget plans stray far from the public's views.

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Battle Lines Await an (Unlikely) Budgetary "Grand Bargain"

With Congress and the Obama administration still divided over tax revenues, the possibility of a "grand bargain" on another major deficit reduction package seems increasingly small.

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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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