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The top 0.1 percent hold $1 of every $6 in US private wealth, much of it never taxed because they borrow against assets instead of selling. UC Berkeley’s Brian Galle, writing for the progressive Roosevelt Institute, proposes charging interest on deferred tax at the asset’s own rate of return — so holding forever no longer shrinks the bill.
Rejections rose 67 percent over six years. After a denial, almost half of patients received no drug in the same therapeutic class within 90 days.
Graduate school is America’s main pipeline for recruiting foreign scientists, but that door is narrowing. A Peterson Institute brief warns the economic cost could reach $481 billion a year.
Sixty years of income data complicate the usual generational story. The bigger shift came when the two-earner household stopped delivering the same boost.
California’s FAIR Plan now covers many low-risk homes, as a Stanford study warns wildfire losses, not just premiums, drive the insurance crisis.
Condominiums are often the most affordable path to homeownership, yet the condo market is stalling. An Urban Institute report says broken approval rules and rising insurance costs are choking financing.
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