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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats&rsquo; Dream of a Wealth Tax Is Alive. For Now.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/democrats-dream-of-a-wealth-tax-is-alive-for-now/ar-BB1oB0jC</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Tankersley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For years, liberal Democrats have agitated for the United States to tax wealth, not just income, as a way to ensure that rich Americans who derive wealth from real estate, stocks, bonds and other assets were paying more in taxes.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Says He's 'Turning Things Around' on Economy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/us/politics/biden-speech-economy-chicago.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Tankersley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Biden hopes to claim credit for what the White House describes as a record-breaking economic revival in America.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Spent $2T to Save Economy, But Won't Talk About It]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2022/10/16/democrats-spent-2-trillion-to-save-the-economy-they-dont-want-to-talk-about-it/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Tankersley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the midst of a critical runoff campaign that would determine control of the Senate, the Rev. Raphael Warnock promised]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rising Prices Threaten Biden's Agenda]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/business/economy/biden-inflation.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Tankersley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Supply chain disruptions, a worker shortage and pain at the gasoline pump have made inflation an economic and political problem for the White House.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Agenda Rests on Expansive Spending Bill]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/18/business/biden-spending-bill.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Tankersley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A plan for the economy, education, immigration, climate and more binds disparate Democratic lawmakers, but the proposal risks sinking under its own weight.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Under Biden, Dems Poised to Hike Taxes]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/27/business/biden-taxes-business-rich.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Tankersley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president's infrastructure proposals are likely to require trillions of dollars in new tax revenue. They also give liberals a chance to address what they call the failures of Republican tax cuts.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Seeks to Define Tenure w/Early Emphasis on Equity]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/23/business/biden-equity-racial-gender.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Tankersley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Only two presidents before him have used their first weeks in office to push for equality with the same force, according to one historian.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Trump's Go-It-Alone Stimulus Won't Do Much]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/08/business/trump-stimulus-recovery.html?action=click&amp;module=Top%20Stories&amp;pgtype=Homepage</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Tankersley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A series of executive actions will provoke lawsuits but is unlikely to stoke faster growth in an economy that has cooled this summer.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[As Millions More Thrown Out of Work, DC Struggles to Keep Up]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/business/coronavirus-unemployment-washington.html?</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Tankersley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Federal efforts to keep businesses operating and workers employed have so far failed to stop the bleeding as the coronavirus tears through the economy in devastating ways.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[US Economy Shuts Down as Pandemic Measures Take Hold]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/americas-economy-begins-to-shut-down-as-pandemic-measures-take-hold/ar-BB11hnjI</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Tankersley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The fast-spreading virus has put an end to movies, date nights and other economic activity, prompting some economists to call a U.S. recession.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Overcoming Doubts, Economy Finds a Way Forward]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/26/business/economy/gdp-economy.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Tankersley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A 3.2% growth rate in the first quarter beats the forecasts and offers Trump a political lift.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Just Ripped Up Nafta. Here's What's in the New Deal]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/business/trump-nafta-usmca-differences.html?action=click&amp;module=Top%20Stories&amp;pgtype=Homepage</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Tankersley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Changes for automakers, dairy farmers, labor unions and large corporations headline the renegotiated U.S.M.C.A., which is poised to replace Nafta.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[New Wave of Optimism Prompts Businesses to Invest]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/01/us/politics/trump-businesses-regulation-economic-growth.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Tankersley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The administration's campaign to reduce regulation has improved the mood of business executives. They may be spending more money as a result.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Disrupts Tax Debate by Ruling Out 401(k) Change]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/23/us/politics/trump-401-k-tax-budget.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Tankersley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is not clear whether Republicans will put a cap on tax-deferred contributions in its final version of the tax bill, but caps as low as $2,400 a year are being considered.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Ready to Move on a Tax Plan Few Have Seen]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/us/politics/tax-bill-trump-senate.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Tankersley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans are set to move quickly to pass a tax bill that they have drafted in secret.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kevin Brady Wants to Reinvent Taxes, Not Just Cut Them]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/3/14772242/republicans-tax-cuts-reform-kevin-brady-corporate-border-adjustment</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Tankersley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s an easy way to cut taxes in Washington, and there is a ludicrously hard way. The easy way is just to cut tax rates. The hard way is to cut rates while also limiting some deductions; the ludicrously hard way is to do all that while also taxing something that was not taxed...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump: Despite Economic Plan, Faces New GOP Resistance]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-tries-to-reset-the-campaign-with-economic-speech--but-faces-new-resistance-inside-the-gop/2016/08/08/c57dc8f0-5d9a-11e6-8e45-477372e89d78_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Tankersley</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[5 Myths About Trade]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-trade/2016/04/08/97cc317c-fcf0-11e5-80e4-c381214de1a3_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Tankersley</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Bizarre Optimism in Trump's Theory of the Economy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/02/the-bizarre-optimism-in-donald-trumps-theory-of-the-economy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Tankersley</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Blame Baby Boomers for Our Economic Woes]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/11/05/baby-boomers-are-whats-wrong-with-americas-economy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Tankersley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One moment in the third Republican presidential debate encapsulates everything terrible about baby boomers and the way they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve pillaged the U.S. economy. It came from Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, a Generation Xer, who offered the standard line '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' you can hear it from the mouth...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Thing Bernie Sanders Says About Inequality That No Other Candidate Will Touch]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/07/13/what-bernie-sanders-is-willing-to-sacrifice-for-a-more-equal-society/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Tankersley</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Get Rich in a New Washington]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/capital-gains-spending-on-contracts-and-lobbying-propels-a-wave-of-new-wealth-in-d-c/2013/11/17/6bd938aa-3c25-11e3-a94f-b58017bfee6c_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Tankersley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So much money to be had if you know where to look.The avalanche of cash that made Washington rich in the last decade has transformed the culture of a once staid capital and created a new wave of well-heeled insiders.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sequester Not Biting Washington DC]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/sequester-not-biting-district-yet/2013/05/29/7e9f4d4a-c866-11e2-9245-773c0123c027_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Tankersley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the months since the automatic federal spending cuts known as the sequester took effect, the Washington area has added 40,000 jobs. Income-tax receipts have surged in Virginia, beating expectations. Few government contractors have laid off workers.It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s too early to be certain,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's the Story With the Economy?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/04/whats_the_story_with_the_economy_117264.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Tankersley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Good economists are great storytellers. They sculpt narratives with squiggly graphs and crowded charts. Like a novel, a good economic forecast has action and characters and, in the end, helps you make a little better sense of the world.
Unless it turns out to be wrong.
Consider the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Tax Hikes Derail CA's Comeback?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/will-higher-taxes-on-the-rich-derail-californias-economic-comeback/2013/02/18/13f0b534-7711-11e2-95e4-6148e45d7adb_print.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Tankersley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';' If there'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s anyplace in the country where rising tax rates should choke off an economic recovery, it'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s California. On top of the federal tax hikes that kicked in last month, the state has just raised income taxes on its wealthiest residents to the highest levels in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The American Dream Is Losing Ground]]></title>
							<link>http://nationaljournal.com/next-economy/analysis-working-hard-is-no-longer-the-ticket-to-achieving-the-american-dream-20120925?page=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Tankersley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - One day when John Sherry was 10 years old, his parents picked him up from school and drove to a Ford dealership. They walked into a large showroom with Mustangs parked out front. He watched his parents, neither of them college graduates, ink the paperwork to buy a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Middle Class Free-Fall Continues]]></title>
							<link>http://nationaljournal.com/daily/obama-didn-t-stop-the-middle-class-free-fall-20120904</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Tankersley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The middle class in America today is not better off than it was four years ago, not better off than it was at the end of the Great Recession in 2009, not even better off than when President Clinton left office in 2001.This is the truth that Democrats must confront as they anchor their...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mitt's Choice Aimed at Winning Middle Class]]></title>
							<link>http://nationaljournal.com/2012-presidential-campaign/romney-s-choice-of-ryan-aimed-at-winning-middle-class-20120811</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Tankersley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Paul Ryan, Campaign 2012 is now a two-front class war.Mitt Romney wanted the election to be a straight-up referendum on President Obama's handling of the economy. Obama responded by framing the race as a choice between an incumbent middle-class champion and a corporate raider...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Slow Agony of the Obama Recovery]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/economy/the-slow-agony-of-the-obama-recovery-20120727</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Tankersley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Under President Obama, America is experiencing one of its weakest recoveries from recession in the modern statistical era. This is the indisputable conclusion from the past three years of job-creation and economic-expansion data, reinforced by Friday'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s Commerce Department estimate that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Clash of Ideas on the Economy]]></title>
							<link>http://nationaljournal.com/magazine/a-choice-not-an-echo-20120426?page=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Tankersley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Arguably, no presidential campaign in the past 30 years has dawned with voters as singularly focused on a single issue as they are this year. In the aftermath of a debilitating financial crisis and amid a feeble and halting recovery from recession, polls show that voters want economic...]]></description>
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