Scott Klinger
Scott Klinger is Senior Equitable Development Specialist at Jobs with Justice and an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies.
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Views Wednesday, May 06, 2020 If Small Businesses Aren't Essential, Neither Is Collecting Rent When I was a child, I remember having to dress up in my church clothes when I went to the bank to deposit my birthday checks or money I saved from my allowances. The idea that banks are secular versions of church remains deeply embedded in our society today. In moments of crisis, financial... Read more |
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Views Friday, May 01, 2020 Postal Bankruptcy Would Hit Rural America Hardest As postal workers strain to meet demand for deliveries of medicine, food, and other essentials, the U.S. Postal Service is facing potential financial collapse due to plummeting mail revenue. Without a major cash infusion, the USPS is on track to run out of money before the end of September,... Read more |
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Views Sunday, April 26, 2020 Why Are Working People Forced to Sacrifice for the Common Good But Not the Titans of Capitalism? When I was a child, I heard my parents say that when we save our money it works for us. I remember having to dress up in my church clothes when I went to the bank to deposit my birthday checks or money I saved from my allowances. These ideas that banks and Wall Street are secular versions of church... Read more |
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Views Monday, July 15, 2019 How Congress Manufactured a Postal Crisis—And How to Fix it In 2006, Congress passed a law that imposed extraordinary costs on the U.S. Postal Service. The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) required the USPS to create a $72 billion fund to pay for the cost of its post-retirement health care costs, 75 years into the future. This burden applies... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, December 04, 2018 Why Do Our Schools Seem Broke? Early this year, teachers in “red” states such as West Virginia and Oklahoma walked off the job to protest declining pay and insufficient classroom resources. Shoppers at office supply stores often run into teachers with carts full of classroom supplies that their school districts say they can’t... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, August 24, 2016 Where Has All the Money for Our Schools Gone? As fall approaches, millions of moms and dads are scrambling to prepare for the first day of school, excited to support their children’s success. But are schools ready to receive our kids and foster that success? Increasingly, the answer is no. In at least 18 states, local government funding levels... Read more |
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Views Friday, April 15, 2016 Five Taxpayer-Supported Corporations that Paid Their CEOs More than Uncle Sam As Americans put the finishing touches on their taxes, it’s a good time to look at the taxes highly profitable U.S. corporations don’t pay. Even though corporations are still in the process of reporting their 2015 CEO compensation, filings to date reveal that more than 60 Fortune 500 corporations... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 08, 2016 7 Things You Didn’t Know About The Ultra Rich Each year, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) publishes data on the collective income of the 400 taxpayers who report the most income on their tax returns. At the end of December, the IRS released cumulative data for the top 400 for the tax year 2013 . The delay in reporting is because tax returns... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, December 09, 2015 The Tax-Dodging Marriage of Viagra and Botox Throughout the fall, Pfizer, the maker of Viagra, has been courting Allergan, the manufacturer of Botox. Pfizer was not attracted by Allergan’s wrinkle-free face or full lips, but by its Irish “citizenship.” In its proposal to Allergan, the Viagra-maker whispered, “If we get together, we can really... Read more |
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Views Thursday, October 15, 2015 Don’t Pave Our Potholes with Corporate Tax Cuts Life was different in the 1990s. Back in ‘93, a lucky few used dial-up Internet to access one of 800 websites available worldwide. Smart phones were a distant dream. The TV dinosaur Barney had just started “edutaining” America’s children. And gas cost about $1.30 a gallon — including 18.4 cents in... Read more |