Tax & Finance
In 2020, at a time when many people were looking for a job, scammers were hard at work trying to trick Americans out of their money. Throughout the year, law enforcement reported 4.7 million...
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In much of the country, public pension funding has been one of the most persistent public policy problems. For years, state governments have failed to make necessary investments in their retirement...
26 days ago
In the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, the hedge fund industry was struggling to eke out gains, but by the end of 2020, they had managed on average to pull themselves out of the red for the...
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In 2020, at a time when many people were looking for a job, scammers were hard at work trying to trick Americans out of their money. Throughout the year, law enforcement reported 4.7 million...
3 months ago
Last Updated: 3 months ago
During the Covid-19 pandemic, as the nation has grappled with health and financial crises, many people across the country have seen their debts rise and their ability to pay them fall. As businesses...
4 months ago
When the U.S. hunkered down in 2020 because of the pandemic, it wasn’t just retail sales that suffered a major blow. States also saw overall tax revenues decline. The Tax Foundation reports state...
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Last Updated: 4 months ago
Although the percentage of U.S. adult smokers has declined in recent years, states still rake in enormous revenues from cigarette sales. According to SmokeFree.gov, the average retail cost of a pack...
4 months ago
The federal deficit hit an all time high of over $28 trillion in March 2021. Unlike the federal government, however, nearly all states are constitutionally required to have a balanced budget and...
5 months ago
Marijuana is big business. Millions of users spend billions of dollars on it every year. As it becomes legalized in more and more states — some 15 currently permit its personal purchase,...
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