Warren’s $52 trillion Medicare for All plan increases wealth tax
Warren’s campaign said her single-payer health plan would cost “just under” $52 trillion over a decade, including $20.5 trillion in new federal spending.
White House touts ‘Health Care for You’ as better option than ‘Medicare for All’
The White House is laying out a “Health Care for You” agenda to boost competition and transparency, lower prescription prices, and produce greater affordability in health-related costs.
Audit: Dead people have been collecting billions from Social Security as it goes bankrupt
This month’s report found that the SSA issued $11.6 million in payments to a sampling of 149 beneficiaries and 4 representative payees who died in Puerto Rico from January 1992 through December 2016. Previous reports follow a similar pattern.
Why LBJ’s Great Society gets a failing grade in improving education
“Since 1965 when the Great Society launched, we have seen federal education spending quadruple, and yet that achievement gap remains [the same] between poor children and the more affluent kids today, a four-year gap in learning,” Burke said.
John Klar: Carbon tax credits — selling indulgences to polluting corporations
Carbon tax credits are nothing more than modern-day indulgences issued for money by government regulators. There is no “incentive” when a polluter buys a tract of forest to “offset” its toxins. It is merely an illusion, a payoff for the right to sin against the planet.
New Hampshire lands in top 10 in report on states’ business climates
A new Tax Foundation study ranks New Hampshire sixth in its 2020 State Business Tax Climate Index. Neighboring states did not fare so well in the study, which ranked Maine at 33rd, Massachusetts 36th, Vermont 44th and Connecticut 47th.
Trump campaign raises $3 million on day Democrats voted for impeachment inquiry
President Donald Trump’s campaign manager said the president raked in millions of dollars on Thursday, the day House Democrats voted to support an impeachment inquiry.
Daily Chronicle: Last Friday, employees at 200 VT companies missed their paychecks — what happened?
Direct deposit is like a car engine that only gets our attention when it doesn’t work. But like an engine, direct deposit has plenty of hidden, moving parts. Sometimes they stop working.
Todd Smith: Unaccountable care organizations
When you pay attention to health care reform efforts in Vermont, unfortunately, you’re almost certain to develop neck and spine problems from shaking your head.
Nation’s report card ‘must be America’s wake-up call,’ Betsy DeVos says
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos criticized the state of American students’ education Wednesday, saying the United States is in a “student achievement crisis.”
Trump administration on track to accept zero refugees in October
The State Department is on track to accept zero refugees for the month of October, a result of the president’s pause in admissions and his overall goal of dramatically reducing the number of refugees that enter the country every year.
Klar answers critics who blast his opposition to transgender surgeries for young children
Where will the Democratic Party and VTDigger political columnist Jon Margolis be when those children’s lives are irrevocably altered and they suffer a life of remorse and trauma?