Dec 13 Everything you want to know about Medicare’s rules on health savings accounts By Philip Moeller The rise of high-deductible employer health plans has created one of the most unpleasant surprises for older employees: anyone on Medicare is no longer allowed to make tax-free contributions to a health savings account (HSA). Continue reading
Dec 10 Watch 3:58 Bitcoin launching on futures market By PBS News Hour A new chapter for cryptocurrencies begins Sunday night as bitcoin, the most mainstream digital asset, launches on futures markets. The milestone will open up the market, allowing investors to bet against the currency without actually owning it. Author Nolan Bauerle… Continue watching
Dec 08 What November’s jobs report means for American workers By Erica R. Hendry The economy added 228,000 jobs last month. What else did November’s report tell us about workers and the economy? We ask experts for their take as we approach the end of 2017. Continue reading
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 Watch 9:12 What the GOP tax plan could mean for average taxpayers By PBS News Hour The House and Senate are getting to work on reconciling the differences between their tax plans. How will the provisions proposed by Congress affect middle- and lower-income taxpayers? Miles O’Brien gets analysis from Lisa Desjardins, Veronique de Rugy of George… Continue watching
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