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April 16, 2015
Tax day looms large for many Americans – April 15 was the last date for paying your tax bill, and the day on which the top one percent of Americans, who get 21.0 percent of total income, pay 21.6 percent of total state and federal taxes. So much for a progressive tax system.
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April 09, 2015
Imagine you are a Guatemalan living and working in the United States without the proper documents. Almost certainly (because it is legally required) there is a poster in the place where you work—most likely in English and Spanish—that “Equal Opportunity is the Law” and ...
Blog Post
April 06, 2015
This is one of a series of CGD blogs on tweaks to the SDG targets.
Poor Goal 15. Forced to accommodate terrestrial ecosystems, forests, desertification, land degradation, and biodiversity, it has the longest title among the SDGs. It is one of the only goals that is too long to tweet.
Blog Post
April 02, 2015
This is one of a series of CGD blogs on tweaks to the SDG targets.
Target 8.1 calls for rapid per capita economic growth. As this is a vital element of sustained progress on development, it is absolutely right that a comprehensive set of development goals include a growth target.
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Blog Post
April 02, 2015
This is one of a series of CGD blogs on tweaks to the SDG targets.
I love the proposed Sustainable Development Goal Seven. It says “Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all”. Target 7.1 is even better: “By 2030, ensure universal access to ...