Dec 01 Watch Lame-Duck Congress: Legislative Logjam or Bipartisan Turnaround? Capitol Hill lawmakers spent Wednesday behind various closed doors, working on the fate of key issues in the lame-duck session such as tax cuts, jobless benefits and the New START treaty. Gwen Ifill gets insight about what can be accomplished… Continue watching
Nov 23 Introducing Tool$ Tuesday: A New Feature By Paul Solman Today we present Tool$ Tuesday- the first in a series of online calculators and tools that I or others on the Making Sen$e team have actually used. The primary purpose is to present tools that we have found helpful in… Continue reading
Nov 23 Introducing Tool$ Tuesday: A New Feature By Elizabeth Shell UPDATE NOV. 25, 2010 | Editor's Note: See update at end of post. Today we present Tool$ Tuesday- the first in a series of online calculators and tools that I or others on the Making Sen$e team have actually used. Continue reading
Nov 22 Small Business Owners and the Bush Tax Cut Debate: No Easy Answers By Paul Solman Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Monday's query: Name: Howard Herbst Question: Republicans say they want to keep the Bush… Continue reading
Nov 22 Small Business Owners and the Bush Tax Cut Debate: No Easy Answers By Elizabeth Shell Name: Howard Herbst Question: Republicans say they want to keep the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy to protect small businesses. Can't the tax code be quickly and easily redesigned to allow small business income reported on an individual (personal)… Continue reading
Sep 30 Watch Pelosi: Democrats Expect to Keep House Majority, ‘Battle-Tested’ for Campaign In an interview with Judy Woodruff, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi predicts Democrats will retain a majority in the House despite a hostile political environment and weighs in on the battle over extending Bush-era tax cuts. Continue watching
Sep 30 Watch Congressional Leaders Take Parting Shots Before Departing for Campaign Trail As members of Congress adjourned late Wednesday for seven weeks to campaign for midterm elections, Republicans and some Democrats were at odds on whether to vote for a tax-cut extension. Kwame Holman looks at the last-minute scramble on Capitol Hill. Continue watching
Sep 29 Watch Former Labor Secretary Reich: Bush-Era Tax Cuts ‘Hurt Quite a Lot’ In the last of the series of conversations about whether to extend Bush-era tax cuts for any, all or some Americans, Robert Reich, who served as secretary of labor in the Clinton administration, explains why he believes they should not… Continue watching
Sep 29 Watch News Wrap: Democrats Eke Out Tax Cut Proxy Vote Win In other news Wednesday, the U.S. House staged a proxy fight on whether the Bush-era tax cuts should be extended and the Democrats won by a single vote. In the end, the House moved to adjourn without acting on the… Continue watching
Sep 27 Watch Clinton Adviser Tyson: Drop Tax Cuts for Wealthy to Spur Spending Next in our continuing series of discussions on whether to extend Bush-era tax cuts to all or some Americans, Jeffrey Brown speaks with Laura Tyson, who served as President Clinton's chief economic adviser. Continue watching