Tag: US Congress
Why can’t the IRS just send Americans a refund – or...
Beverly Moran, Vanderbilt University
The Internal Revenue Service has postponed the April 15 tax filing deadline to May 17....
The US prepares to deliver $1.9 trillion jolt of economic relief:...
Bryan Keogh, The Conversation
The U.S. economy and millions of people struggling because of the pandemic are about to...
Support for Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package may not be...
Aaron Saiewitz, University of Nevada, Las Vegas and M. David Piercey, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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How safe is your baby food?
C. Michael White, University of Connecticut
Heavy metals including lead, arsenic and mercury can be found in commercial baby...
Ensuring the minimum wage keeps up with economic growth would be...
Felix Koenig, Carnegie Mellon University
The US$1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill that the House is expected to soon pass...
Debunking the myth of legislative gridlock
Jeb Barnes, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
So much for gridlock.
President Joe...
Congress lifts long-standing ban on Pell grants to people in prison
Andrea Cantora, University of Baltimore
When Congress decided in 1994 to ban federal student aid for people behind bars, it was part of a wider...
Bridging America’s divides requires a willingness to work together without becoming...
Francesca Polletta, University of California, Irvine
Amid two crises – the pandemic and the national reckoning sparked by the killing of George Floyd – there...