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media mention November 7, 2024 Money: Donald Trump Is the President-Elect. Here’s What It Means for Your Wallet
Early this morning, the Associated Press declared Republican nominee Donald Trump the winner of the 2024 presidential election. And though nothing is certain, we do have a few clues as… -
media mention November 5, 2024 NerdWallet: What to Know About Harris and Trump’s Tariff Campaign Promises
It’s election week, and Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are making their last-ditch efforts to recruit voters. At the top of many Americans’ minds, of course, is the economy.
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media mention November 5, 2024 The Independent: Elon Musk Wants to Gut the Federal Government Under Trump. What Could That Look Like?
The wealthiest man on the planet is pumping tens of millions of dollars into Donald Trump’s campaign. He owns an influential social media company where he embraces right-wing influencers and conspiracy theories now dominating the platform. He has business interests with China and Russia’s Vladimir Putin’s regime while his companies receive billions of dollars in US government contracts.
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media mention November 4, 2024 New York Times: Trump’s Closing Argument: Lies, Distortions and Inaccuracies
Former President Donald J. Trump, in the closing days of the 2024 election, continues to be a font of exaggerations, misleading claims and outright lies.
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media mention November 2, 2024 Money: Trump vs. Harris: How Could Your Tax Bill Change Under Each Candidate?
Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have made a point of talking about taxes in the final days leading up to the presidential election. This is no accident: With more… -
media mention October 31, 2024 Business Insider: What a Trump or Harris Presidency Would Mean for Your Tax Bill
In the fourth installment of BI’s five-part series in the final stretch before the election, Business Insider is looking at the ways each candidate’s policies could affect how much you pay in taxes. (Read part one about investments, part two about costs, and part three about housing.)
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media mention October 24, 2024 New York Times: Trump Flirts With the Ultimate Tax Cut: No Income Taxes at All
Former President Donald J. Trump has spent much of the presidential campaign brainstorming new, and sometimes untested, ways to cut taxes. In the election’s final stretch, he raised the possibility of going even further: eliminating income taxes entirely.
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media mention October 23, 2024 The Marshall Project: Fact-checking Over 12,000 of Donald Trump’s Statements About Immigration
The Marshall Project used text analysis to identify 13 major claims about immigration in over 350,000 of Trump’s public statements from Factba.se, some of which Trump has made 500 times or… -
media mention October 19, 2024 CNN: Trump’s Mass Deportation Plans Would Be Costly. Here’s Why
Former President Donald Trump vows he’ll kick millions of undocumented immigrants out of the US if he’s reelected. Read more. -
media mention October 18, 2024 New York Times: How Trump’s Radical Tariff Plan Could Wreck Our Economy
As a result, tariffs would raise the cost of living more for middle- and lower-income families than the average. An estimate by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, which assumes a 20 percent tariff, finds that it would reduce the real income of families in the bottom fifth of earners by 5.7 percent, of middle-income families by 4.6 percent, but of the top 1 percent by only 1.4 percent. An analysis by the Peterson Institute for International Economics arrives at similar numbers. In other words, Trump’s 2.0 tariffs would in effect be a strongly regressive tax increase, imposing a serious burden on most families.
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media mention October 18, 2024 CBS News: Trump’s Plan to Deport Millions of Immigrants Would Cost Hundreds of Billions, CBS News Analysis Shows
Immigration researchers, lawyers, and economists have pointed to immense constitutional, humanitarian and economic problems posed by Trump’s oft-repeated pledge. But beyond the anticipated damage to immigrant families, communities and local economies, the roundup and deportation of some 11 million people is near impossible to bankroll, according to an analysis of U.S. budget and immigration court data by CBS News.
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media mention October 18, 2024 Variety: From Tariffs to Taxes to Tyranny, Hollywood Braces for the Possibility of a Donald Trump Victory
Abbasi’s experience says a lot about the anxiety gripping the entertainment world as it watches a tumultuous, enormously consequential election unfold. From corporate suites to studio lots, Hollywood is bracing for a possible Trump return, one that could bring chaos and deepen political divisions in a polarized country.
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media mention October 17, 2024 Audio: ITEP’s Amy Hanauer Talks Presidential Tax Plans on NerdWallet Podcast
Paycheck Politics: What Presidential Tax Plans May Mean for Your Wallet. Listen here. -
media mention October 16, 2024 Washington Post: “Off the Charts”: How Trump Tariffs Would Shock U.S., World Economies
Former president Donald Trump is campaigning on the most significant increase in tariffs in close to a century, preparing an attack on the international trade order that would likely raise prices, hurt the stock market and spark economic feuds with much of the world.
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media mention October 16, 2024 New York Times: Trump and Harris Both Like a Child Tax Credit, but With Different Aims
Vice President Kamala Harris has made an expanded child tax credit central to her campaign, and former President Donald J. Trump boasts, “I doubled the child tax credit.” With a quick look, voters might think the child-rearing subsidy the rare matter on which the rival candidates agree.
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media mention October 16, 2024 Los Angeles Times: Here Are 4 Campaign Promises from Trump. What Are Their Chances if He Wins?
The economic impacts would be huge. In California, an estimated 1.5 million workers — 7% of the state’s labor force — are undocumented, according to the Pew Research Center. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a left-leaning think tank, found that undocumented workers paid $96.7 billion in taxes in 2022, including $8.5 billion in California.
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media mention October 16, 2024 Mother Jones: Trump’s Reverse Robin Hood Tax Cuts of 2017
On October 7, the nonpartisan Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy released an analysis of whom Trump’s tax proposals would benefit. It’s probably not you.
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media mention October 15, 2024 Grist: Trump’s Proposed Mass Deportations Could “Decimate” the US Food Supply
As Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump campaigns for a second term in the White House, the former president has repeatedly promised to enact the largest deportation of undocumented immigrants in U.S. history. It’s a bold threat that legal experts say should be taken seriously, despite the significant technical and logistical challenges posed by deporting 11 million people from the U.S.
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media mention October 11, 2024 Business Insider: The Top 5% Will Benefit from Trump’s Tax Plans While the Rest of America Pays More, a New Analysis Says
According to a new analysis from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy — a left-leaning think tank — Trump’s tax and tariff proposals could spur an average tax cut of about $36,300 for the richest 1% of Americans, or those with incomes of $914,900 and above. Beyond that, ITEP expects the next-richest 4% to receive an average tax cut of about $7,200.
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media mention October 11, 2024 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Pennsylvanians Favor Citizenship, Not Deportation, for Unauthorized Immigrants in New Survey
But even as most polls show Trump is preferred over Vice President Kamala Harris on immigration, his policy prescription is not the one that Pennsylvanians prefer, according to survey results released Thursday.
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media mention October 9, 2024 Salon: Expert: Analysis shows Trump tax plan “taking money” from bottom 95% and “giving it” to richest 5%
Former President Donald Trump’s proposed tax plan would create tax cuts for the nation’s top 5% of earners while leaving the rest of Americans to shoulder tax increases by 2026, according to a new analysis.
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media mention October 7, 2024 New York Times: Trump’s Plans Could Increase U.S. Debt While Raising Costs for Most Americans
Former President Donald J. Trump’s economic proposals could inflame the nation’s debt burden while ultimately raising costs for a vast majority of Americans, according to a pair of new economic… -
media mention October 7, 2024 Education Week: How States Use Tax Credits to Fund Private School Choice: An Explainer
Most of the biggest recent developments in the world of private school choice have centered around education savings accounts, a twist on the private school voucher that parents can spend… -
media mention October 7, 2024 NBC News: Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Madeleine Dean Demand Food and Beverage CEOs Put a Stop to ‘Shrinkflation’
Two Democratic lawmakers are demanding that some of the biggest food and beverage companies stop engaging in “shrinkflation” — the practice of reducing product sizes while charging prices that are… -
media mention October 7, 2024 HuffPost: Group That Says Tariffs Are Taxes Touts Tariff-Pushing JD Vance Taking Its No-Tax Pledge
Americans for Tax Reform’s anti-tax pledge is well known in GOP circles. But what does it mean when punishing tariff hikes are on the table? Read more.