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July 24, 2015 at 1:10 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 3 Comments

Here’s what’s trending on Wonk Wire today:

  • What is the Real Minimum Wage?
  • Americans Are Finally Eating Less
  • Businesses Feel Steamrolled on Minimum Wage
  • Socialism is as American as Apple Pie

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July 23, 2015 at 10:45 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Here’s what’s trending on Wonk Wire today:

  • Why Trump Matters
  • Pot Legalization: No Longer a Liberal Pipe Dream
  • Large Majority Unhappy With Where Nation is Headed on Social Issues
  • How to Cut Emissions and Boost the Economy? Look to the Northeast

A bonus from Working Capital Review:

  • A Conversation with Austan Goolsbee

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July 22, 2015 at 11:58 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Here’s what’s trending on Wonk Wire today:

  • Why is Trump So Popular? Americans Are Angry.
  • Jeb Bush Wants to Dock Lawmakers’ Pay
  • The Largest Generation By State
  • U.S. Emissions Decline Attributed to Economy, Not Decrease in Coal
  • Could the Individual Mandate Increase Obamacare’s Popularity?
  • GOP: Obamacare Repeal Plans Are Not Dead

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July 21, 2015 at 2:33 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Here’s what’s trending on Wonk Wire today:

  • Is Donald Trump the Embodiment of the GOP’s Core Values?
  • Has the American Dream Been Replaced by a ‘Funnel of Privilege?’
  • Mapping Hate Across the Nation
  • Is Donald Trump a Republican? Democrats Don’t Think So.
  • New Temperature Records Set For June
  • Where Will Pot Be Legalized?

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July 16, 2015 at 11:15 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Here’s what’s trending on Wonk Wire today:

  • The Downside to Congressional Budgetary Gimmicks
  • Most Americans Say Obamacare Fight Must End
  • The Reality Behind Projected Obamacare Rate Increases
  • Republicans Sour On the Supreme Court
  • Are There Really Two Americas?
  • A Conversation with Austan Goolsbee
  • McConnell Insists Republicans Will Roll Back Obamacare

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July 9, 2015 at 10:24 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 3 Comments

Here’s what’s trending on Wonk Wire today:

  • Does More Money in Politics Mean Less Polarization?
  • How the South Brings Our Nation Down
  • Republicans Shocked That DHS Includes Climate Change as ‘Top Priority’
  • We Need a Broken Windows Policy for Wall Street

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July 8, 2015 at 10:30 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

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  • What’s Next in the Obamacare Battle?
  • A Troubling Surge in Heroin Use and Addiction
  • Healthcare Costs Not Predicted to Skyrocket
  • Voting Access Worst in Southern States
  • Are Americans Really Trending Democratic?
  • Only 5 States Limit Police Seizure of Personal Property
  • Which Side is Winning in the War on Coal?

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July 7, 2015 at 2:01 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 2 Comments

Here’s what’s trending on Wonk Wire today:

  • 2016’s Presidential Field Isn’t the Largest
  • States Enact an Increasing Number of Abortion Restrictions
  • Bernie Sanders Ahead of Public Opinion on Social Policies
  • Share of U.S. Renewable Energy Consumption Highest Since 1930
  • Which States’ Tax Systems Increase Inequality?

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July 6, 2015 at 10:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Here’s what’s trending on Wonk Wire today:

  • Are Wages Really That Depressed?
  • Is There a Red State Advantage in Marriage?
  • Despite Wins, Supreme Court is Not a Liberal Court
  • Vaccine Panic Largely Among Rich, White Americans
  • Obama is the Health-Care Industry President
  • Proud to be an American? Maybe

 

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July 2, 2015 at 9:41 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Here’s what’s trending on Wonk Wire today:

  • Overwhelming Majority Approve of Court’s Ruling on Obamacare Subsidies
  • Democrats Take the Lead in Party Affiliation
  • Confidence in U.S. Institutions, By Ideology
  • Could California’s New Vaccine Law Be a Model for Other States?
  • California’s New Fracking Rules Are Toughest in the Nation

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July 1, 2015 at 10:30 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 2 Comments

Here’s what’s trending on Wonk Wire today:

  • Jeb Bush Profited From Obamacare
  • The Limited Impact of the Court’s Ruling on Gerrymandering
  • All is Not Lost for Obamacare Lawsuit Supporters
  • Gun Control and Abortion Are Different Than Gay Marriage
  • Has the Supreme Court Become More Liberal?
  • Don’t Sanitize America’s Racist Past: Leave Confederate Monuments Intact

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June 30, 2015 at 10:08 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

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  • Republicans Need to Accept That Obamacare is Here to Stay
  • What Would the Nation Without Gerrymandering Look Like?
  • Which Professions Are the Whitest?
  • Does the SCOTUS Redistricting Verdict Really Help Democrats?
  • Republicans’ Refocus Their Strategy for Killing Obamacare
  • Marriage Won’t Turn Gay Population Into Republicans

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June 29, 2015 at 12:18 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 2 Comments

Here’s what’s trending on Wonk Wire today:

  • Which States Afford the Least Protection for Homosexuals?
  • Renewable Potential is Undersold by Federal Policymakers
  • Supreme Court Strikes Down EPA Pollution Rules
  • Republicans Have Lost the Obamacare Policy War
  • The Obamacare Fight Continues
  • Has the Supreme Court Become Another Political Institution?

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June 26, 2015 at 12:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 3 Comments

Here’s what’s trending on Wonk Wire:

  • Equality for All Americans in Supreme Court’s Same-Sex Marriage Ruling
  • Obamacare Ruling Round-up
  • Why Haven’t the Poor Rebelled?
  • Krugman: Obamacare Survives and ‘It’s a Beautiful Thing’
  • SCOTUS Opinion Leaves No Room for Doubt
  • GOP Reaction to Obamacare Ruling? Relief

And on Working Capital Review:

  • The 50 Smartest Companies
  • How Much the Best and Worst CEOs were Paid

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June 25, 2015 at 10:29 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 1 Comment

Here’s what’s trending on Wonk Wire today:

  • Removing the Confederate Flag is Just the Tip of the (Racism) Iceberg
  • America’s Couch Potato Index
  • How Effective Are Obamacare Subsidies?
  • What Does it Take to be ‘Truly American?’
  • Modest Increases Projected in Some States for Obamacare Plans
  • Is the ‘Liberal’ Label Now Acceptable?
  • GOP Governors Walk Political Tightrope With Obamacare Subsidies Case

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June 24, 2015 at 10:30 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 3 Comments

Here’s what’s trending on Wonk Wire:

  • Who Has Better Self-Control: Conservatives or Liberals?
  • The Reality About Terrorists and Radical Islamists
  • It’s Good to Protest as Long as You’re Not Black
  • For the First Time, More Approve of Obamacare
  • Most Oppose Lower Court Ruling on Obamacare Subsidies
  • White House Emphasizes Economic And Health Benefits of Climate Plan

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June 23, 2015 at 10:45 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 1 Comment

Here’s what’s trending on Wonk Wire today:

  • Uninsured Rate Drops to Lowest Level Under Obamacare
  • Racial Bias Plays A Key Role in Welfare Policy Decisions
  • Why Is Obamacare Still Unpopular?
  • Which State Has the Cheapest Pot?
  • Guns Are About Identity
  • Who Will Clean Up the Supreme Court’s Obamacare Mess?

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June 22, 2015 at 12:18 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Here’s what’s trending on Wonk Wire today:

  • Among Republicans, Catholics Believe in Climate Change
  • Obamacare and Labor: A Good Thing
  • Which States Do Americans Prefer to Settle In?
  • More Guns Mean More Death
  • NOAA: The Hottest Spring On Record

And from Working Capital Review:

  • The Economy is Hiring More Efficiently
  • The Strategy Palette

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