…formula for figuring the cost of living ends up reducing the money citizens will receive in their SS checks. One of our commenters, Denis Drew labeled it the Cascading CPI….

…of Economics at Wellesley College and the Faculty Director of the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs. The IMF and the Return of Structural Conditionality in Europe (March 2012)…

…him as Peter G Peterson’s representative to the Social Security Trustees. While Blahous is rather unapologetically employed by the Koch Brothers’ funded Mercatus Institute at GMU. And per Ryan EITHER…

…information — a worry that puts these recent stories into a different context: The World Resources Institute released the Aqueduct 2.0 tool for water risk. IBM and Waterfund (a global…

…And he should be specific. But he also should ask this: Since when is it theft of Americans to institute tax increases that a majority of Americans who voted in…

…middle class and state and local taxes Economist Robert Pollin, Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and founding co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI),…

…the new tax bracket created for millionaires in Maryland, at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy: Five Reasons to Reinstate Maryland’s Millionaires’ Tax, ITEP (March 9, 2011). cross posted…

…Just how much more would a 20-something pay? According to researchers at the Urban Institute, eliminating age rating would lift average premiums for those 18 to 34 years old by…

…minimally) progressive tax system to an explicitly regressive tax system. Such a move favors those with capital assets and mainly capital income. Claims (like that made by the Civitas Institute…

…L-118 (financial assets only), for DB, DC, and government employee programs; Investment Company Institute for IRAs This gigantic hole shows that the current model, based on 401(k)’s rather than true…