One Year Later
What the tax bill has to do with U.S. wealth inequality
The richest one percent of Americans control about 38 percent of the wealth in the United States. Analysts report that the Republican tax bill, very soon to be the Republican tax law, will only exacerbate the problem. How will this break down on racial and ethnic lines? Who benefits and who doesn’t?
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2 storiesNew tax bill, old inequalities
The Republican tax bill offers most American taxpayers a cut in the short-term. But analysts claim that it will only worsen America’s income inequality crisis, one that is demarcated along racial and ethnic lines.
Read the story32 minWhat it's like for a Republican to resist Trump
Some Republicans are in distress about the state of their party, and some have paid a price for taking a stand against the president. Jennifer Rubin is one of them.
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