WASHINGTON — Fewer than half of Americans expect President Donald Trump's tariffs to do much to help the U.S. economy, but their widespread unpopularity hasn't led most Republicans to stray from supporting the president's trade policy as the 2018 midterm elections approach. Majorities of Americans also doubt the recently announced...
Read This to Learn Why CA's Public Schools Are Failing
Don’t squeeze your kids too hard as you send them off to another school year, because the state of California is already squeezing your kids hard enough to hurt their future. Call it The Great California School Squeeze. The state is stuck in a nasty school funding paradox: Even though...
America Is a Mess, and Baby Boomers Should Own It
One of the more popular books in America is Bruce Cannon Gibney's "A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America." Certainly, millennials love it. And it's hard to argue against Gibney's indictment of baby boomers, a generation that has enriched itself repeatedly without paying the tab for its...
The Best Story You'll Ever Read on California Taxes
Politicians, special interest groups and taxpayer advocates make all kinds of claims about California taxes. As voters gear up for the June 5 primary, they deserve to know the facts about California's tax burden — and where those public dollars are spent. Judy Lin of CALmatters digs out the facts...
You Have Two Extra Days to Pay Your Taxes. And Take This Quiz.
“Tax Day,” the day when U.S. individual tax returns are due, is usually April 15. This year Americans get until April 17 to file their returns because April 15 falls on a Sunday and April 16 is Emancipation Day in Washington, marking President Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the Compensated Emancipation...
Want a Powerful Economy? Support the DREAM Act.
The final day for an Obama-era program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, was set to be Monday, March 5. In 2017, President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced they would shut down the program. However, immigrants and the University of California filed separate lawsuits against...