Mar 22 Tool$ Tuesday: How the Government Spends Your Money By Elizabeth Shell Just in time for tax season: a tax receipt calculator that shows you how the federal government spends your taxes. It's easy to use: just enter your federal tax amount for 2010 and press 'calculate receipt.' The… Continue reading
Mar 22 Tool$ Tuesday: How the Government Spends Your Money By Elizabeth Shell By Elizabeth Shell Just in time for tax season: a tax receipt calculator that shows you how the U.S. federal government spends your taxes. It's easy to use: just enter your federal tax amount for 2010 and press 'calculate… Continue reading
Feb 28 Save the Pensions: Tax the Rich By Paul Solman EDITOR'S NOTE: We received a number of responses from viewers like you regarding last week's broadcast story, "In Tiny Rhode Island, a Massive Public Pension Crisis Looms" and the Making Sen$e web piece, "Paying For Public… Continue reading
Jan 03 Watch U.S. Faces 'Explosion of Senior Citizens': Will Baby Boomers Strain Economy? In 2011 the first of 79 million Americans born between the end of World War II and the mid-1960s will turn 65, swelling the ranks of Medicare and Social Security recipients. Judy Woodruff looks at the implications with Nicholas Eberstadt… Continue watching
Dec 23 Watch News Wrap: Greece OKs Budget, Adds More Austerity Measures In other news Thursday, the governing socialists in Greece passed a new budget that reduces health and defense spending while raising consumer taxes. The steep taxes and deep cuts have sparked widespread protests in Athens and elsewhere. Continue watching
Dec 14 Tool$ Tuesday: Interactive Tax Cut Graphic By Paul Solman Today's tool concerns the extension of the Bush tax cuts and comes via the Washington Post, which generated the interactive graphic some time ago. But it's as timely a tool as ever, given that the Senate vote… Continue reading
Dec 14 Tool$ Tuesday: Interactive Tax Cut Graphic By Elizabeth Shell Today's tool concerns the extension of the Bush tax cuts and comes via the Washington Post, which generated the interactive graphic some time ago. But it's as timely a tool as ever, given that the Senate voted Monday night… Continue reading
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 Watch Rep. Schakowsky: Social Security Not Part of Deficit Problem As part of a series of conversations about the country's deficit problems, Judy Woodruff speaks with Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Illinois about the details of her plan to cut the deficit. Continue watching