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Aug 5, 2019
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This Tax Credit Wasn’t Meant to Help With Housing, But That’s Exactly What It’s Doing
The Earned Income Housing Credit is an anti-poverty program with bipartisan support, and a side effect of boosting income is that it helps families get their own apartments and even houses, according to a new study looking at the before-and-after of previous increases in the EITC.

Jul 24, 2019
by The Conversation
US Health Care: An Industry Too Big to Fail
Presidential candidates have been proposing plans to expand health coverage, lower prescription drug costs and make hospital bills more transparent. But few get to the real problem: health care is priced as a business, but we think of it as a social good.

Jun 25, 2019
by The Conversation
Corporate Boards Are Supposed to Oversee Companies but Often Turn a Blind Eye
The consequences for board members of corporations found to violate the law and ethical norms are rare and usually minor. Here's a look at what the board is supposed to do - and sometimes doesn't.

Jun 25, 2019
by The Conversation
Amazon, Google and Facebook Warrant Antitrust Scrutiny for Many Reasons – Not Just Because They’re Large
US lawmakers and regulators are beginning to investigate big tech's growing power, but they need to look beyond size and into their very nature of these three companies (and find different solutions for each).

Jun 25, 2019
by The Conversation
US Poverty Statistics Ignore Millions of Struggling Americans
Measuring poverty just by low cash income misses many other aspects of poverty -- like unemployment, poor health and a lack of health insurance. These scholars (and the Census Bureau) are starting to devise a better way.
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