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2017 Tax reform helps corporations the most. Who knew?

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The Tax Reform bill of 2017 was supposed to close loopholes which had allowed corporations to avoid paying taxes, but a study by Matt Gardner, Senior Fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), of Netflix has shown that it reduced corporate taxes without closing the loopholes. He talks to Jan Miyasaki about […]

Consumer financial protections under attack

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The Consumer Finance Protection Board was established following the recession of 2008. The Trump administration is disabling those protections from the inside out — by selecting administrators who are removing protections. Peter Skopec from WISPIRG, Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group, talks about weakening of regulations on predatory pay-day loan companies and other protections.

What’s the status of FoxConn’s 7M gallon water permit?

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With the status of the Racine-area FoxConn development changing by the week, what’s the status of the permit granted to divert over 7 million gallons of Lake Michigan water? Does it violate the Great Lakes Water Compact? The Midwest Environmental Advocates and several other environmental groups are suing to stop this permit, and Tressie Kamp […]

Ruebner: McConnell’s bill is anti-free speech

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Mitch McConnell’s “highest priority” bill is an effort to tread on free speech rights by encouraging states to create laws which restrict government contracts to people who will certify that they do not participate in anti-Israeli boycott, divestment, sanctions (BDS) actions. Josh Ruebner, Policy Director of the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights talks about McConnell’s […]