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  • Kintsugi
  • February 27, 2021February 27, 2021

Your 2021 Tax Brackets vs. 2020 Tax Brackets

John Waggoner, AARP, Updated January 28, 2021  You might be filling out your tax return for 2020, but you’re living in tax year 2021, and tax year 2021 has substantial differences from

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  • Kintsugi
  • December 30, 2020December 30, 2020

Tax Tips for 2020

As 2020 comes to a close, finally, many of us start thinking about taxes. We should have thought about tax-saving strategies at the start of the year, but, you know, we were too busy worrying about

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  • Prof Patty
  • October 11, 2020

17 States With Estate or Inheritance Taxes

by John Waggoner, AARP, October 5, 2020 Eleven states have only an estate tax: Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washingto

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NY Times

  • Canadian Tourist Is Killed in Shooting at Mexico’s Pyramids
  • Japan to Sell More Weapons Abroad, Breaking With Postwar Pacifism
  • Blue Origin’s Failure May Hamstring NASA’s Moon Plans
  • Democrat Betty Yee Leaves the California Governor’s Race
  • Trump and Iran Face Off in Iran War Negotiations

NPR

  • A mine despoiled the beauty of the rainforest. This Goldman Prize winner took action
  • The Little Probe That Could: Why Voyager 1 Matters, and Why NASA Just Switched Part of It Off
  • Photos: How overfishing in Southeast Asia is an ecological and human crisis
  • How a Japanese poet's diary helps scientists reconstruct solar cycles
  • This week in science: Small talk, more human lobster killing, and an ancient flood

The Progressive

  • On Chicago’s Trains, Homeless Outreach Workers Meet People Where They Are
  • Citizen Journalists Shine a Light on Gaza
  • Climate Education Makes Economic Sense
  • ICE Agents Hide Behind Masks; Jesse Jackson Remembered As Determined Leader
  • What’s Behind the Push to Make Schools Adopt the Science of Reading?

FactCheck.org

  • What Do We Know About ‘Birth Tourism’?
  • Elon Musk Amplifies Baseless Claim About COVID-19 Vaccine
  • An Attack Over ICE in the Massachusetts Democratic Senate Race
  • Politicians Say Glyphosate Weedkiller Causes Cancer But Evidence Not Clear-Cut
  • The U.S. Treasury Didn’t Declare the Country ‘Insolvent’

Snopes.com

  • Kash Patel faces claims of excessive drinking, absences. Here's what we know
  • Did Trump cancel $11M grant to Catholic charity to 'punish' Pope Leo XIV? What we know
  • Inspecting photos allegedly showing 'dismal' meals on US military ships in Middle East
  • Bill Gates has nothing to do with 'Brain Honey' or any other fake Alzheimer's cure
  • Did Ted Lieu expose Stephen Miller funneling $6.2B through Cayman Islands?

Tradeoffs

  • Should People Who Want GLP-1s Have to Work for Them?
  • High Health Care Costs Are Fueling a New Fight Over Old Laws
  • Trump's Pick to Quiet the Chaos at HHS
  • Generic Drugs Head to the Supreme Court
  • Inside the Urgent Care Boom

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