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- The Republican promise is to cut taxes and regulation. But the numbers show just how badly that argument has failed.
- Family premiums for employer-based health insurance jumped by 47% between 2011 and 2021, and deductibles and out-of-pocket costs shot up by almost 70%. The average price for brand-name drugs on Medicare Part D rose by 236% between 2009 and 2018.
- Jeff Swope felt the first spurt of anger bubble up when he learned in February that his landlord was raising the rent on the empty two-bedroom apartment next door by more than 30%, to $2,075 a month.
- As the G.O.P. has become a full-on antidemocratic party, why has it also remained the party of plutocrats and the enemy of any policy that might help its many working-class supporters?
- Median middle-class household financial assets show each generation’s savings may not be enough for retirement.
A new survey of voters in Arizona, Colorado, Virginia, and West Virginia reveals support for the Build Back Better plan—the broad economic, infrastructure, care economy, and climate crisis package currently being considered by Congress. Specifically the survey