…(including the conservatives) but might stimulate discussion in comments. * Title corrected. The Tax Policy Center is a joint center of the Brookings Institute and the Urban Institute not a…

by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care Thoughts: Employer Responses The Urban Institute and the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation published a paper (October 2011) about the potential responses of employers…

…agencies, and combine them. Some eliminate, but I’m probably not going to lay out just exactly which ones are going to go,” Romney said. “Things like Housing and Urban Development,…

…system and providing more government funding for basic research (NIH, NSF, etc.) and for public infrastructure (mass transportation, rails throughout America and its inner cities, urban development). crossposted with ataxingmatter…

…city of Grand Rapids, it the exception. Santorum won that county by only 42.4% to 40.3%. This illustrates the other part of the Michigan dynamic. Romney did better in urban…

…done pretty much nothing since its creation in 2009 (boldface mine): Attorney General Eric Holder, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan, and Securities and…

…GOP nomination. It’s perhaps an appropriate time to bring out the Urban Institute/Tax Policy Center’s analysis of the Romney 59-point tax plan. They have produced a table (T12-0004) showing “Mitt…

…crisis. Others have suggested these were to blame: the home mortgage interest deduction, the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, the 1994 Housing and Urban Development memo, Fannie Mae and Freddie…

…even partially elastic, the farmer needs to sell his crop, the village or urban worker needs to eat, and in between is the merchant’s guild backed by state power as…

…benefits ($12.8 billion) Department of Education ($20.2 billion) Housing and Urban Development ($6.7 billion) Other spending, such as Departments of Justice, Labor, Commerce, EPA, HHS ($73.6 billion) [formatted for style]…