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August 30, 2024
…Revenue Service data for 2018 to 2021 showed that the average share of total adjusted gross income devoted to itemized charitable giving declined by 28 percent, even though adjusted gross…
August 6, 2024
…increased by 11 percent from 2017 to 2021, the average share of total adjusted gross income devoted to itemized-charitable giving fell by 28 percent. Put another way, more income was available for charitable…
August 1, 2024
As a U.S. senator, Vice President Kamala Harris had a remarkably slim record of accomplishments, shepherding only a handful of minor resolutions across the finish line. But that’s far from…
July 23, 2024
…that such giving, measured as a percentage of adjusted gross income, decreased overall because far fewer households itemized their tax returns. As a result, only the most affluent taxpayers, who…
June 18, 2024
…of families with children rose by 45% before — and by as much as 94% after — accounting for taxes and transfers. Moreover, according to the LIS Cross-National Data Center,…
May 22, 2024
…net income on food. Federal guidelines set SNAP gross income limit at 130 percent of the Federal Poverty Line (FPL) and net income limit at 100 percent FPL. SNAP benefit…
April 21, 2024
…from which to draw, a better NPR would have its ear to the ground across the country — searching out the small-town and big-city stories that would provide us the…
April 18, 2024
…crisis requires action. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates potential gross domestic product growth of 1.8% over the coming decade, and somewhat lower after that. Those figures are roughly 1 percentage point…
March 8, 2024
…men actually benefit from marriages or relationships anymore.” The second myth is that father-present homes are of no great importance to our kids. Harvard University’s Christina Cross in The New…
March 5, 2024
…the Israeli military, how could this money be used to rebuild Palestine?” The founder of Woke Kindergarten is Akiea “Ki” Gross. Gross’s professional biography offers up pronouns (“they/them”) and touts Gross as…