Quotes by Annie Lowrey - Page 2

In the long run, lawmakers should keep in mind that tax rates are far from the only reason a rich person might consider flight: Decaying infrastructure and degrading public services are surely just as important.
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Degrading
Flight
Infrastructure
Lawmakers
Rich Person
Decaying
Long Run
Rates
Surely
Tax Rates
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Perhaps the country's most pressing problem is its high uninsured rate. Every other country as wealthy as the United States has figured out how to cover its entire population, generally at a much lower cost, too.
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Rate
Wealthy
Figured
Lower
Pressing
Uninsured
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During a coronavirus-induced downturn, families will be at greater risk for food insecurity, eviction, and job loss; kids will go hungry; food pantries and social-service organizations will come under more strain.
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Downturn
Hungry
Insecurity
Strain
Organizations
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The risk that people pose to wolfdogs is far greater, statistically, than the risk that wolfdogs pose to people. Many are bred in miserable, inhumane conditions, and kept in equally miserable, inhumane conditions.
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Conditions
Inhumane
Miserable
Bred
Equally
Pose
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The Millennials graduated into the worst jobs market in 80 years. That did not just mean a few years of high unemployment, or a couple years living in their parents' basements. It meant a full decade of lost wages.
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Millennials
Unemployment
Wages
Couple Years
Decade
Graduated
High Unemployment
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Ending child poverty, stopping the opioid crisis, improving child nutrition, providing a high-quality public education to students, ending the racial wealth gap: These kinds of policies would boost the economy, too.
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Boost
High Quality
Improving
Nutrition
Providing
Public Education
Stopping
Ending
Gap
Racial
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Numerous studies have shown income inequality growing since the late 1970s. Real earnings have fallen for many families, with globalization, the decline of unions and technological innovations eroding workers' wages.
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Decline
Globalization
Income Inequality
Inequality
Wages
Earnings
Innovations
Numerous
Shown
Studies
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The Trump administration, for its part, has pushed for childcare to basically be written off on your taxes, which would subsidize the wealthiest families the most but would act as a significant subsidy to all families.
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Childcare
Subsidize
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As a general point, the United States has an extreme budget commitment to prisons, guns, warplanes, armored vehicles, detention facilities, courts, jails, drones, and patrols - to law and order, meted out discriminately.
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Detention
Drones
Law And Order
Armored
Guns
Courts
Facilities
Jails
Prisons
Vehicles
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The rise of populist movements and the shrinking of the middle class - with all the economic pain and political turbulence that comes with that - seems to have increased the appetite of both parties for dramatic proposals.
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Appetite
Dramatic
Middle Class
Populist
Shrinking
Turbulence
Both Parties
Movements
Proposals
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In Opportunity Zones, as they are called, investors will receive huge tax breaks for building office parks, warehouses, housing, grocery stores, and the like, helping to ease poverty and end blight in distressed communities.
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Blight
Ease
Housing
Parks
Tax Breaks
Zone
Breaks
Distressed
Grocery
Receive
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Both the federal government and the states should go ahead and soak the rich to reduce inequality and raise money for health care, child care, infrastructure investment, education, decarbonization, and a thousand other priorities.
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Child Care
Federal Government
Inequality
Infrastructure
Thousand
Education Health Money
Reduce
Soak
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A thin safety net, an expansive security state: This is the American way. At all levels of government, the country spends roughly double on police, prisons, and courts what it spends on food stamps, welfare, and income supplements.
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Food Stamps
Income
Levels
Safety Net
Stamps
Supplements
Welfare
American Way
Courts
Double
Expansive
Net
Prisons
Roughly
Thin
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In functioning high-income countries, the government guarantees the provision of essential goods and services: medical care, transit between cities, supplies for public schools, financial support to weather a period of unemployment.
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Financial Support
Goods
Guarantees
Medical Care
Provision
Supplies
Unemployment
Weather
Public Schools
Transit
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When economists talk about income, they talk about the money a household or a person earns in a given year. That's the salary you earned, the rent from a tenant above your garage and the bit of money you made by selling some stocks.
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Garage
Salary
Selling
Earned
Economists
Rent
Stocks
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Home-health and personal-care work is one of the country's fastest-growing occupational sectors. But it is one marked by low pay and meager benefits, a problem that might become more urgent as the U.S.'s population continues to age.
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Urgent
Marked
Occupational
Sectors
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The cost-of-living crisis extends beyond housing. Health-care costs are exorbitant, too: Americans pay roughly twice as much for insurance and medical services as do citizens of other wealthy countries, but they don't have better outcomes.
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Housing
Outcomes
Insurance
Roughly
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After moving to California, I went on a no-buy streak. I began refusing short plane trips, using public transit or walking whenever possible, and turning the air-conditioning down. I even started carrying around a water bottle or a mason jar.
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Bottle
Carrying
Streak
Jar
Mason
Plane
Refusing
Transit
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Wolves are afraid of humans, whereas dogs are not. Wolves hunt game, whereas dogs scavenge human leftovers or eat what their human companions put out for dinner. Wolves are not great at following human commands, whereas dogs are brilliant at it.
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Leftovers
Commands
Companions
Dogs
Hunt
Whereas
Wolves
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Immigrant families pay taxes. They work. They start businesses. They spend money in their communities. They join native-born families in being economically productive, both paying money to the government and receiving benefits from the government.
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Receiving
Work Money Government
Economically
Join
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Conspiracy theories themselves are big business, of course, selling books, videos, conferences, and all kinds of merch. Then there is the economy that promotes conspiracy theories to sell goods such as supplements, survival gear, and yes, bunkers.
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Big Business
Conferences
Conspiracy
Goods
Selling
Supplements
Survival
Gear
Theories
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Many economists and industry experts agree that the United States faces unfair competition and artificially low prices that have damaged the domestic steel industry. But they don't agree that a tariff is the right approach for addressing the problem.
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Experts
Faces
Steel
Unfair
Addressing
Artificially
Damaged
Domestic
Economists
Prices
Tariff
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The student-loan crisis has an underappreciated emotional valence too: The debt makes people miserable. In one survey, more than half of borrowers said that they have experienced depression because of their debt. Nine in 10 reported experiencing anxiety.
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Depression
Borrowers
Debt
Miserable
Experiencing
Reported
Survey
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Talking with economists, climate scientists, and psychologists convinced me that depersonalizing climate change, such that the only answers are systemic, is a mistake of its own. It misses how social change is built on a foundation of individual practice.
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Climate Change
Social Change
Economists
Misses
Psychologists
Scientists
Systemic
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Even very low-income communities are seeing rising rates of obesity, diabetes, cancer, and heart disease as a result. But many countries lack the tax revenue and medical infrastructure to treat such conditions, leading to a burgeoning global-health crisis.
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Conditions
Diabetes
Heart Disease
Infrastructure
Low Income
Obesity
Revenue
Rates
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It is a country that professes to care for babies. But in the United States, the infant death rate is twice as high as in similarly wealthy countries. Premature birth and low birth weight are common ailments, with lifelong and even intergenerational effects.
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Effects
Infant
Premature
Rate
Babies
Similarly
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Making a paper straw requires growing a tree, cutting it down, and pulping and pressing it into a tube. Manufacturers then use fossil fuels to ship the straws to stores and cafes. Many paper straws on the market are not even compostable or recyclable, as promised.
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Cutting
Stores
Tree
Fossil
Fossil Fuels
Fuels
Manufacturers
Pressing
Promised
Straw
Tube
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Americans are no less susceptible to disease, joblessness, and family changes than their peers in rich nations, but they are made more fragile by these crises. The country has a thinner safety net, fewer public goods, and less social insurance than other countries.
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Fewer
Fragile
Goods
Joblessness
Other Countries
Peers
Safety Net
Susceptible
Crises
Insurance
Net
Thinner
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The things to watch are whether the country's borrowing costs are rising, whether its budgetary allotment for payments on the debt is increasing, and whether it is spending on good priorities. Those big, scary debt numbers are not as big and scary as they used to be.
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Borrowing
Debt
Priorities
Rising
Budgetary
Increasing
Payments
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Cell-based meat, or 'clean' meat - real meat produced in labs - has not become a commercial product yet. But analysts expect it to hit the shelves in 2021 or soon thereafter, and start-ups in this space, such as Memphis Meats, have raised tens of millions of dollars.
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Labs
Meat
Memphis
Shelves
Millions Of Dollars
Produced
Tens
Tens Of Millions
Thereafter
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Lower-income immigrant families might receive more in benefits than they pay in taxes. But that mathematical equilibrium is temporary, and an artifact of the way the tax-and-transfer system is structured to help lower-income families and to support families with kids.
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Equilibrium
Mathematical
Receive
Structured
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The Trump administration, to its credit, has initiatives on housing. It has initiatives on child care. It does not have true initiatives in terms of making health care more affordable and covering the remaining millions of Americans who do not have insurance coverage.
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Affordable
Child Care
Coverage
Housing
Health Care True
Initiatives
Insurance
Insurance Coverage
Remaining
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Millions of Millennials and Gen Zers were never exposed to the threats of the Soviet Union; they did not live through the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev; they do not remember the Mariel boatlift or the SALT treaties or the Cuban missile crisis.
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Berlin
Berlin Wall
Cuban
Cuban Missile Crisis
Exposed
Gorbachev
Millennials
Salt
Soviet
Soviet Union
Treaties
Gen
Reforms
Missile
Threats
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Kids of the 1980s and 1990s have had a new, huge, financially catastrophic demand on their meager post-recession earnings, too: a trillion dollars of educational debt. About a quarter of Gen Xers who went to college took out loans to do so, compared with half of Millennials.
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Demand
Educational
Millennials
Catastrophic
Earnings
Financially
Gen
Loans
Quarter
Trillion
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For animals, for humans, for the planet: It makes sense to curb meat consumption, and that is something vegans and omnivores agree on. Roughly two-thirds of Americans report reducing their meat consumption, and many are sensitive to the way their diet might be damaging the planet.
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Consumption
Curb
Meat
Reducing
Sensitive
Report
Damaging
Roughly
Two-Thirds
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So overall in the entire economy, the issue is not that health care costs are growing dramatically. The issue is that the burden placed on families is. So just between 2010 and 2016, the cost burden of family private insurance premiums jumped 28%, whereas incomes rose less than 20%.
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Burden
Health Care Costs
Private Insurance
Family Health Care
Care Costs
Dramatically
Incomes
Insurance
Overall
Placed
Whereas
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The Paycheck Protection Program created in the CARES Act did help many small businesses keep employees on their books in the early days of the pandemic. But many small firms are ailing now; the hospitality industry has been decimated; and state and local governments are shedding workers.
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Hospitality
Protection
Cares
Early Days
Employees
Governments
Local Governments
Pandemic
Paycheck
Shedding
Small Businesses
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Local tax increases can cause high-net-worth individuals to move, tax experts said; tax avoidance and tax arbitrage are multitrillion-dollar affairs, and rich people are sensitive to tax rates. But many of the people who move when their home state raises taxes are close to retirement anyway.
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Avoidance
Experts
Home State
Raises
Retirement
Rich People
Sensitive
Tax Increases
Affairs
Increases
Rates
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Indeed, the share of teachers in a union has fallen to less than half, driven in part by older, unionized teachers retiring, the rise of certain districts' reliance on charters and other private education options, and legal changes that have curtailed the ability of unions to bargain on behalf of workers.
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Behalf
Reliance
Districts
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Recycling, cutting back on driving, and changing out old light bulbs for energy-efficient ones might save half a ton of carbon a year. A household going car-free, flight-free, and vegan - changes impractical, if not outright impossible, for many families to make - might reduce emissions by four tons a year.
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Carbon
Cutting
Emissions
Household
Recycling
Impractical
Reduce
Ton
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In the longer term, immigrants contribute more to the government's coffers than they receive in social spending. Moreover, these programs are not just welfare or a handout, but also an investment, helping ensure that families are healthy, educated, and able to work and support themselves over the course of generations.
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Generations
Immigrants
Welfare
Contribute
Handout
Programs
Moreover
Receive
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Fires in California and Oregon are incinerating homes, businesses, schools, power lines, and roads. Hurricanes in the Gulf Coast are swamping mobile homes and carrying away cars and livestock. The United States faces the potential task of relocating towns and cities and fortifying others, trapped in an endless cycle of destruction and rebuilding.
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Destruction
Faces
Hurricanes
Livestock
Oregon
Rebuilding
Towns
Trapped
Carrying
Cycle
Fires
Gulf
Gulf Coast
Homes
Roads
Task
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