Dec 07 Watch 10:02 Do tax cuts spur growth? What we can learn from the Kansas budget crisis By PBS News Hour, Frank Carlson Four years ago, businesses in Kansas went from paying over 6 percent taxes to paying nothing at all, as part of a Republican experiment to boost the limp state economy. But when the massive drop in tax revenue destabilized the… Continue watching
Dec 06 Help! A doctor is ruining my credit with Medicare overbilling By Philip Moeller More and more people write in to say they’re being dropped from state Medicaid rolls or say their problems are being ignored by Medicare and Social Security. And journalist Phil Moeller thinks things are poised to get much worse. Continue reading
Dec 06 The Republican tax bill is a fiscally irresponsible, loophole-ridden mistake By Alex Raskolnikov The Republican Party used to pride itself as the party of ideas. But the tax plan is a fiscally irresponsible, distributionally unfair, loophole-ridden mistake. Continue reading
Dec 04 How the GOP tax overhaul compares to the Reagan-era tax bills By Jeffrey Frankel President Donald Trump has invoked the experience of the Reagan Administration's tax reforms to promote the current Republican tax reform proposals. But the two huge tax bills during the Reagan years differed in almost every respect. Continue reading
Dec 01 These controversial items tucked into the GOP tax bills have little to do with taxes By Daniel Bush The Republican tax plans include numerous provisions that have little to do with changing the tax code or cutting rates. Continue reading
Nov 30 Watch 9:01 Cities dream of wooing Amazon, but is it worth it? By Paul Solman The pitches have been quirky, some might even say desperate. City officials across North America are trying to get Amazon's attention in hopes that the fourth-largest company in the U.S. will build its next big tech hub in their community. Continue watching
Nov 30 Here’s what cities are offering Amazon to host its new headquarters By Patty Gorena Morales Cities across the country are competing to land Amazon's second corporate headquarters. What will it take to win?… Continue reading
Nov 29 I can’t afford Medicare Part B. How do I prepare for tomorrow’s health problems? By Philip Moeller While you have dodged a health care bullet so far, the odds are you will need substantial health care in your later years. Continue reading
Nov 27 What is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, anyway? By Daniel Bush Familiar with the work of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau? Here's a recap of the financial watchdog agency's history and accomplishments since launching in 2011. Continue reading
Nov 23 Watch 7:10 Why your Thanksgiving cranberries might be more trouble than they’re worth for local growers By Paul Solman The price of cranberries has been sinking for more than five years due to overproduction. Families like the Rhodes, who own Edgewood Bogs in Massachusetts, are used to periodic cycles of oversupply and falling prices, but new bogs in western… Continue watching