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29 Dec 2021, 7:52 am
Pix Credit: Adam Klasfeld, "Derek Chauvin and Three Other Ex-Officers Plead Not Guilty to Civil Rights Charges in George Floyd's Death," Law & Crime (14 Sept 2021) Eyo Olokun masquerades at the Eyo Festival in Lagos, Nigeria For the last several years, and with no particular purpose other than a desire to meander through reflection, I have taken the period between Christmas and New Years Eve to produce a s summary of the slice of the year to which I paid attention… [read post]
19 Sep 2021, 3:12 am
Writes Jim Tankersley in "Biden’s Entire Presidential Agenda Rests on Expansive Spending Bill/A plan for the economy, education, immigration, climate and more binds disparate Democratic lawmakers, but the proposal risks sinking under its own weight" (NYT). [read post]
28 Jul 2021, 3:50 am
Table of Contents Key Findings Introduction What Is the Tax Gap and What Proposals Are Available? [read post]
24 Jun 2021, 6:55 am
“Biden Removes Chief of Housing Agency After Supreme Court Ruling; The case was brought by shareholders of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, who said the law that created the agency was unconstitutional”: Matthew Goldstein, Adam Liptak, and Jim Tankersley have this article in today’s edition of The New York Times. [read post]
18 Mar 2021, 10:00 am
Jim Tankersley & Jason Deparle, Two Decades After the ‘End of Welfare,’ Democrats Are Changing Direction, N.Y. [read post]
10 Mar 2021, 9:00 am
Jim Tankersley, To Juice the Economy, Biden Bets on the Poor, N. [read post]
29 Jan 2021, 7:00 am
Black Lives Matter: Biden Seeks to Define His Presidency by an Early Emphasis on Equity (Jim Tankersley and Michael D. [read post]
14 Jan 2020, 7:18 pm
There may not be a red scare now (though the Trump campaigners try to paint democratic socialist programs as communism), but there is a real likelihood that the contrast--and possibly real class warfare-- between the squalor and despair of poor families who work hard but cannot fend for themselves and rich kids with silver spoons that only grow bigger and bigger may eventually threaten the global nation of the plutocrats.4 1 Jim Tankersley, Michael Bloomberg's Jobs… [read post]
20 Mar 2019, 11:13 am
On March 14, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin shared with reporters that the Trump-Xi summit, originally scheduled for late March, would be pushed back because American and Chinese trade negotiators are still working to address unspecified issues. [read post]
20 Feb 2019, 12:24 pm
News Coverage of Poverty: Matthew Goldstein & Jim Tankersley, Wall Street, Seeking Big Tax Breaks, Sets Sights on Distressed Main Streets, NYTimes.com, Feb. 20, 2019. [read post]
20 Jan 2019, 11:43 pm
(Pix © Larry Catñá Backer; Bronzino Martirio di San Lorenzo, 1565-69, Florence )Judges and lawyers tend to serve as the worker bees of the large jurisprudential colonies of semiotic communities ("They do all the work in the hive, and they control most of what goes on inside. [read post]
8 Jan 2019, 6:45 am
Key Findings The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act created the Opportunity Zones program to spur investment in economically distressed census tracts. [read post]
2 Aug 2018, 9:01 pm
” Before getting into a discussion of Trump’s proposal, however, I should note that the reporters who wrote that article, Alan Rappeport and Jim Tankersley, did a masterful job of covering all of the relevant issues. [read post]
31 Jul 2018, 12:35 pm
: New York Times, Trump Administration Mulls a Unilateral Tax Cut for the Rich, by Alan Rappeport & Jim Tankersley: The Trump administration is considering bypassing Congress to grant a $100... [read post]
29 Jul 2018, 8:00 am
New York Times: How the Trump Tax Cut Is Helping to Push the Federal Deficit to $1 Trillion, by Jim Tankersley: The amount of corporate taxes collected by the federal government has plunged to historically low levels in the first six months of the year, pushing up the federal budget... [read post]
29 Jul 2018, 8:00 am
New York Times: How the Trump Tax Cut Is Helping to Push the Federal Deficit to $1 Trillion, by Jim Tankersley: The amount of corporate taxes collected by the federal government has plunged to historically low levels in the first six months of the year, pushing up the federal budget... [read post]
19 Jul 2018, 9:01 pm
IRS Will No Longer Require Certain Nonprofits to Disclose Large DonorsWRAL – Patricia Cohen, Kenneth Vogel, and Jim Tankersley (New York Times) | Published: 7/17/2018 The U.S. [read post]
17 Jul 2018, 9:01 pm
Will No Longer Force Kochs and Other Groups to Disclose Donors” by Jim Tankersley and Patricia Cohen (New York Times) for WRAL Connecticut: “Connecticut Democrats Lose Their Gubernatorial Rainmaker” by Mark Pazniokas for Connecticut Mirror Iowa: “Iowa Ethics Board Says Candidates Can’t Use Campaign Funds for Child Care” by Katarina Sostaric for Iowa Public Radio North Carolina: “Top State Leaders Fined for Illegal Campaign Contributions from Drug… [read post]
27 Jun 2018, 1:35 pm
President Trump has apparently decided to limit Chinese investment in American tech companies through congressional reform to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), rather than pursue more aggressive restrictions through executive action under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). [read post]
27 Jun 2018, 1:35 pm
President Trump has apparently decided to limit Chinese investment in American tech companies through congressional reform to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), rather than pursue more aggressive restrictions through executive action under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). [read post]
