$BILLIONAIRE Tax Bandits?
Billionaires Seize $Billions Letter to Editor – Hartford Courant April 3, 2022
Billionaires Seize $Billions Letter to Editor – Hartford Courant April 3, 2022
South Ocean Boulevard in Palm Beach. Photographer: Amanda Gordon/Bloomberg Wall Street A-Listers Fled to Florida. Many Now Eye a Return By Katherine Burton, Annie Massa, Amanda L Gordon, and Jonathan Levin March 10, 2021 USPS data shows few New Yorkers moved…
The Backward Logic of Austerity Threatens America’s Most Vibrant Campus CUNY must be saved from needless cuts. By Ben Lerner — Mr. Lerner is a writer and a professor of English at Brooklyn College. May 26, 2020 Students at the Brooklyn College…
Research by Connecticut Voices for Children: USE The Rainy Day Fund!!!!!!!! By law, Connecticut is required to deposit into its Budget Reserve Fund (BRF)—also known as the Rainy Day Fund—all revenue exceeding $3.15 billion from the combination of two sources,…
Who Pays Taxes in America in 2019? For years, Americans have been told that the rich are paying a highly disproportionate share of the nation’s taxes. Claims to that effect often focus on just one tax, the federal personal income…
The Golden Age of Rich People Not Paying Their Taxes An eight-year campaign to slash the IRS’s budget has left the agency understaffed, hamstrung, and operating with archaic equipment. The result: a hundred-billion-dollar heist. –The Atlantic–PAUL KIEL, JESSE EISINGER, PROPUBLICA—DEC 11, 2018…
DEFINED BENEFIT PENSIONS SUPPORT LOCAL ECONOMIES October 17, 2018 — POSTED BY – TYLER BOND This week, we want to focus on the economics of pensions, the most secure form of retirement savings. Today we want to highlight how public pensions…
Unkept Promises: State Cuts to Higher Education Threaten Access and Equity OCTOBER 4, 2018- BY- MICHAEL MITCHELL —MICHAEL LEACHMAN— KATHLEEN MASTERSON — SAMANTHA WAXMAN A decade since the Great Recession hit, state spending on public colleges and universities remains well below historical levels. Overall state funding…
The Super-Rich Really Do Avoid A Lot Of Taxes By— Matt O’Brien — Hartford Courant Op-Ed – 10/7/18 (alfexe / Getty Images/iStockphoto) As bad as you might think inequality is, the reality is that it’s even worse for a…
Connecticut in Crisis: How inequality is paralyzing ‘America’s country club’ The state is caught in an economic straitjacket and there’s no easy way out By Jared Bennett July 26, 2018 –Center for Public Integrity Main Street in Bridgeport, the largest city in…