The GOP’s fight to hide the cost of its next tax cut has already begun Republicans are trying to hide the full cost of their planned tax cuts from voters - by preemptively smearing the scorekeepers. The 2017 Trump tax cuts came with a massive price tag: The legislation ... 06/12/2024 - 8:25 am | View Link
GOP initiative backers lose fight to keep budget impacts off WA ballot Each of the initiatives seek to undo signature policies passed in recent years by the majority Democrat state legislature. 06/8/2024 - 2:00 am | View Link
Washington judge denies GOP attempt to keep financial impact of initiatives off November ballots Information about how much money three GOP ... would cost the state of Washington must appear on the November ballot where voters can see it, a judge on Friday ruled. The measures to repeal the ... 06/7/2024 - 12:40 pm | View Link
Opinion: Catherine Rampell: The GOP’s fight to hide the cost of its next tax cut has already begun The legislation added $1.9 trillion to deficits over a decade. That figure even accounted for the law’s expected economic growth effects, ... 06/5/2024 - 12:00 am | View Link
GOP's fight to hide cost of next tax cut has already started Republicans are trying to hide the full cost of their planned tax cuts from voters — by preemptively smearing the scorekeepers. 06/4/2024 - 4:00 pm | View Link
A landmark bill aimed at standardizing and improving the way police treat victims in the aftermath of a sexual assault has become law in Connecticut.
The new law establishes a council that will create a model policy for police responding to sexual assault, and it received unanimous, bipartisan support. The law also requires that officers refer victims to a victim advocate, distribute information about services available, and help the victim and any children present obtain medical care.
Remember that crushing feeling when we lost Roe v. Wade? The experts warned us. The Christian nationalists told us that was their main goal and the litmus test for their judges. Still, the moment was as devastating as it was surprising. Big steps backward don’t seem possible. But they are.
On Monday, US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy called on Congress to require a warning label for social media platforms. The move is intended to battle a rising crisis of mental illness and suicide among the nation’s youth. Such a label from the top federal authority on public health also has the potential to reduce dangers from a specific trend: the insidious marketing of guns to kids.
“Young people are biologically more vulnerable to social media influencers and advertising, and more likely to engage in impulsive and risky behavior,” Sandy Hook Promise CEO Nicole Hockley, whose six-year-old son Dylan was murdered in the 2012 school attack, wrote in a statement following Murthy’s announcement.