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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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June 19, 2015 at 2:03 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 1 Comment

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

  • Republicans to Extend Subsidies If Struck Down By Supreme Court
  • As Democrats Trend Leftward, Maybe There’s Hope for Bernie Sanders
  • Most Impacted By an Obamacare SCOTUS Ruling Live in GOP Districts
  • Doctors Divided, Like Public, on Obamacare
  • OMB Chief Optimistic on Tax Reform
  • House Republicans Open to Funding Needle Exchange Programs

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June 16, 2015 at 3:06 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 2 Comments

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

  • Americans Show No Confidence in Their Major Institutions
  • Leaked Papal Encyclical Aligns Pope With Activists on Climate Change
  • From Energy Crisis to Leader in Clean Energy
  • Most Aren’t Paying Attention to Big Obamacare Case
  • GOP Lawmakers Push Online Sales Tax Reform
  • Study Shows How Government Funding Boosts Innovation

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June 15, 2015 at 9:26 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

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

  • Upcoming SCOTUS Rulings: Clamoring for Telltale Clues
  • Is Health Care Spending Growing Again?
  • Kansas Avoids Massive Budget Cuts
  • Patent Troll Bills Split Innovation Community
  • Is the Nation’s Uninsured Rate the Lowest Ever?

And a few bonus pieces from Working Capital Review:

  • Why Do Some CEO’s Get Paid So Much?
  • Your Strategy Needs a Strategy

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June 11, 2015 at 1:24 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 2 Comments

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

  • GOP’s Blueprint for Success: They Need to Lose
  • Wiser But Not Wealthier: How Income Gets Worse with Age
  • Obamacare Is Now Woven into the Nation’s Social Fabric
  • Are More Stable Families Found in the North?
  • Republicans’ Twist on an Obamacare Solution
  • EPA Climate Rule Would Generate Jobs

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June 10, 2015 at 10:40 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 2 Comments

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

  • More Evidence Obamacare is Working
  • San Francisco Moves to Add Warning Labels on Sugary Drinks
  • Secret Conservative Groups Donated Millions to Promote Climate Skepticism
  • Republicans Face a Growing Predicament on Obamacare
  • Health Spending Growth Rate Expected to Slow for 2016
  • Americans: Don’t Take Away My Freedoms!
  • Record Number of Job Openings: A Harbinger of Wage Growth?

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June 8, 2015 at 12:46 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 3 Comments

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

  • Does Fracking Contaminate Drinking Water?
  • Public to SCOTUS: Don’t Demolish Obamacare
  • Both Parties Face Pressure to Raise Taxes
  • Is Radical Innovation the Key to Lowering Health Care Costs?
  • Pennsylvania Governor Eyes Launching State Exchange
  • Employed, But Where’s the Raise?
  • More Jobs Doesn’t Mean More Job Security
  • How to Fight Climate Change

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June 2, 2015 at 12:27 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

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

  • How an Obamacare Loss Means a Loss for Republicans
  • 1 in 13 Gun Killings Are Committed By Police
  • There’s ‘No Easy Fix’ to an Adverse Obamacare Ruling
  • Maryland Bans Fracking
  • Polygamy and Suicide Are OK. Extramarital Affairs Are Not.
  • A Slow-Moving Strategy to Abolish the Death Penalty
  • GOP: Total Obamacare Repeal is Impossible
  • Obamacare: Who Signed Up and Where in 2015?

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June 1, 2015 at 11:40 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 1 Comment

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

  • Religious Faith: A Reason for Climate Denialism?
  • Abortion Issue Takes on Greater Importance Among Voters
  • Fossil Fuel Industry’s Scheme to Mislead the Public

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May 29, 2015 at 10:38 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 2 Comments

Here’s what is trending on Wonk Wire today:

  • Where Can Low-Income Workers Find Affordable Housing? Nowhere.
  • GOP Obamacare Plans Won’t Stave Massive Disruption of Insurance Market
  • Economy Shrinks 0.7% in First Quarter
  • GOP Split Over Obamacare Alternatives
  • More Consider Themselves ‘Pro-Choice’ Than ‘Pro-Life’

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May 28, 2015 at 10:56 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Here is what’s trending on Wonk Wire today:

  • Illegal Border Crossings Lowest in 20 years
  • Party That Wins Obamacare Lawsuit Could Be the Loser
  • States Team Up To Keep Obamacare Sustainable
  • Wind Power Could Become Nation’s Largest Energy Source
  • If Congressional Districts Were the Same Size

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May 27, 2015 at 10:30 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Here’s what’s new on Wonk Wire today:

  • Is the Rate of Innovation Slowing?
  • How Obama Can Make the Tax System More Progressive
  • Obamacare Lawsuit: An Empty Suit?
  • Female Soldiers Wrestle With New Roles
  • The Future of Cars: Pay-Per-Mile One-Way Car Rentals?
  • Legalize It and the Price of Weed Falls
  • Americans Becoming More Liberal on Social Issues

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May 26, 2015 at 10:42 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

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

  • Why Baltimore Blew Up
  • Is the Technological Revolution Overhyped?
  • Obamacare’s Survival Threatened by a ‘Drafting Error’
  • Which States Rob From the Poor to Give to the Rich?
  • Medicaid Expansion Contributes to Decline in Uninsured Rate
  • Hefty Insurance Rate Increases May Be on the Horizon

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May 20, 2015 at 1:15 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Here are some must-read stories from Wonk Wire:

  • Can Republicans Avoid Romney’s Tax Proposal Problem?
  • Obamacare Subsidies Were Meant For All States
  • Do Wealthy Countries Need Big Government
  • Is Fox News Hurting the Republican Party?
  • The Untested Electability of an Atheist
  • Republicans Scramble for Obamacare Alternative
  • A Decline in Americans’ Satisfaction With Direction of the Country
  • A Huge Hit For Some States If SCOTUS Rules Against Obamacare

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May 14, 2015 at 3:13 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 3 Comments

Here are some popular stories on Wonk Wire:

  • The Sad State of America’s Infrastructure
  • The Proudest Cities? Ones That Politicians Flatter
  • A Solution to the Crumbling Rail System: More Republican Passengers?
  • An Accurate Count of the Uninsured?
  • America’s Most Fertile Faiths
  • A Gas Tax Hike Is Not Political Death

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May 4, 2015 at 12:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

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

  • Which City is the Most Polluted City in America?
  • Making Climate Change a Moral Imperative
  • In Defense of Riots
  • Emergency Room Visits Continue to Climb
  • Fracking in our National Parks?
  • Moral Cowardice and Presidential Candidates

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May 1, 2015 at 12:17 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 2 Comments

Here are the most popular stories on Wonk Wire today:

  • What Is the Best State?
  • Where Do America’s Most Racist People Live?
  • Which State Has the Worst Healthcare System?
  • Jobs That Could Drive You to Drink (or Drugs)
  • More Religious Americans Support Gay Marriage Than Oppose it
  • Inequality in Baltimore Mapped
  • Is Renting a Home the ‘New Normal?’
  • Where Americans Feel Unsafe

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April 23, 2015 at 10:42 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Have you been reading Wonk Wire? Here are some good suggestions:

  • Jindal: Stop Bullying Advocates of Religious Liberty
  • When Obamacare Threatens Medicare
  • America’s Flawed Health System
  • What is Your State Worth?
  • Study Suggests a Link Between Fracking and Earthquake Activity
  • The Death of Fracking?
  • GOP Presidential Candidates Split on Tax Reform
  • A Disconnect Between Republicans and Americans Over Obamacare

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goddard-bw-snapshotTaegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.

Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.

Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.

Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.

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