Tag: taxes

  • Nation & World

    Analysts in economics, public policy give Biden infrastructure plan high marks

    President Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan has been criticized by Republicans and rankled some centrist Democrats, but Harvard experts welcome the initiative.

    9 minutes
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    Students provide tax help

    Harvard Law School students are volunteering their time to provide tax help to the community at the Cambridge Public Library.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The costs of inequality: Increasingly, it’s the rich and the rest

    Increasingly, economic and political inequality in America is interlaced, analysts say, leaving many more people poorer and voiceless. But there are policy changes that could help change that.

    18 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Making lung cancer pricey

    Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius talked tobacco taxes and health care reform Monday during an appearance at the Forum at Harvard School of Public Health.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Starting up in hard times

    In a down economy, thinking like entrepreneurs can help large companies to innovate and thrive, said business leaders at an event hosted by Harvard Business School and The Economist magazine on March 24.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    ‘Crisis in Japan: The Way Forward’

    The disaster created when an earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis struck Japan may be entering a new stage as the effects start to ripple through the country’s economy, politics, and society, according to a panel of Harvard analysts and Japanese officials.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Divided they stand

    What to expect in 2011 and beyond? After this month’s midterm elections, Harvard’s resident analysts look ahead to Congress’ upcoming agenda, from tax reform to foreign policy to the 2012 political calculus.

    5 minutes
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    Bright ideas

    Harvard authorities across many fields offer their ideas on how to get the nation’s lagging economy back on track.

    13 minutes