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Even a low-ball estimate of the cost of time shows just how misleading an estimate based only on money expenditures really is.

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Mamdani Needs to Catch the Value Capture Bus

New York Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani has drawn both praise and sneers for his free bus proposal. As detailed

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Most so-called pronatalist policies seriously underestimate the costs and risks of raising children in today’s economic environment.

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Please join us this Tuesday, April 15th for a Tax Day talk by David Cay Johnston: "Taxes and Inequality:

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[Bill Foster (IL-11) says it better than I could myself—Polly] Washington, DC, Friday, April 4, 2014 – Today, Congressman Bill

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