Top 400 Taxpayers See Tax Rates Rise, But There’s More to the Story
by Scott Klinger, 2/8/2016
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 returns with the highest reported income in 2013. The media widely reported the surprising news that these highest-income taxpayers saw their average tax rate jump to 22.9 percent in 2013, up from 16.7 percent in 2012.
Feb 8, 2016
Top 400 Taxpayers See Tax Rates Rise, But There’s More to the Story
by Scott Klinger
As Americans were gathering party supplies to greet the New Year, the Internal Revenue Service released their an...
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Feb 4, 2016
Chlorine Bleach Plants Needlessly Endanger 63 Million Americans
by Guest Blogger
Chlorine bleach plants across the U.S. put millions of Americans in danger of a chlorine gas release, a substance so toxic i...
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Jan 25, 2016
U.S. Industrial Facilities Reported Fewer Toxic Releases in 2014
by Amanda Starbuck
The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) data for 2014 is now available. The good news: total toxic releases by reporting facili...
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Jan 22, 2016
Methane Causes Climate Change. Here's How the President Plans to Cut Emissions by 40-45 Percent.
by Amanda Starbuck
UPDATE (Jan. 22, 2016): Today, the Bureau of Land Ma...
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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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Gasping for Support: Implementation of Tougher Air Quality Standards Will Require New Funds for State Agencies
New scientific research shows that the current levels of...
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