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Posts tagged Barack Obama
Biden to reopen Obamacare enrollment
Affordable Care Act bolstered in pandemic; Durbin seeks to expand health workers
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Ted CoxJoe Biden, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, Obamacare Enrollment, Dick Durbin, Marco Rubio, U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Kaiser Family Foundation, Joel Ario, National Health Services Corps, Nurse Corps, National Disaster Medical System
Barbara Flynn Currie backs expanded EITC
Longtime General Assembly reformer writes op-ed targeting ‘effective tool in the battle against poverty’
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Ted CoxReverse Income Tax, Earned Income Tax Credit, Earned Income Credit, Illinois Earned Income Tax Credit, Barbara Flynn Currie, Richard Nixon, Milton Friedman, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, MAP Grants, Family Caregivers, Dick Durbin, Ram Villivalam, Economic Security for Illinois
Pritzker lays out COVID vaccine plan
Health-care workers, long-term-care residents to get shots first, with focus on 50 counties with top death rates
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Ted CoxCoronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 Testing, COVID-19 Vaccine, Pfizer, Moderna, Illinois Coronavirus, Illinois COVID-19, Illinois COVID-19 Toll, Illinois COVID-19 Testing, J.B. Pritzker, Ngozi Ezike, FDA, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Illinois Department of Public Health, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama
Hate crimes on rise as murders set record
Most driven by racial bias in Illinois, with incidents concentrated on Chicago
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Ted CoxHate Crimes, Illinois Hate Crimes, FBI, Anti-Semitism, Southern Poverty Law Center, Nikki Singh, Sikh Coalition, Brian Levin, California State University, Michael Jensen, University of Maryland, Donald Trump, Barack Obama
Big election turnout amplified deep divisions
Fair Tax failure puts state on course to repeat worst of Rauner budget impasse, warns SIU Prof. Jackson
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Ted Cox2020 Presidential Election, Fair Tax Amendment, Illinois Fair Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, John Jackson, Southern Illinois University, Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, Political Divide, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, J.B. Pritzker, Thomas Kilbride, Dick Simpson, University of Illinois at Chicago, Bruce Rauner, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama
It's Biden time!
Kamala Harris to become first woman to serve as vice president
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Daily Debunk: Flat tax drags on revenue
It deliberately makes tax hikes difficult, while Fair Tax taps economy where it’s expanding
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Ted CoxIllinois Fair Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Fair Tax Amendment, Daily Debunk, Greg Baise, Coalition for Jobs Growth and Prosperity, Illinois Flat Tax, Illinois Pension Crisis, Quentin Fulks, Vote Yes for Fairness, Sue Rezin, Barack Obama, J.B. Pritzker, Kenneth Griffin, Daniel Biss
Daily Debunk: Tax income where it's growing — with the wealthy
Some are profiting mightily during COVID collapse
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Ted CoxCoalition to Stop the Proposed Tax Hike Amendment, Daily Debunk, Illinois Fair Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Fair Tax Amendment, Illinois Flat Tax, Barack Obama, Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, Ralph Martire, Center for Tax and Budget Accountability, Kenneth Griffin, Citadel Investments, Richard Uihlein, Sam Zell, Daniel Biss, Joseph Stiglitz
Unions, pols rally online for Fair Tax Amendment
‘We can vote for the change we want to see in Illinois,’ says Lt. Gov. Stratton, warning against statewide tax increase
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Ted CoxJehan Gordon-Booth, Fair Tax Amendment, Illinois Fair Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Juliana Stratton, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Daniel Biss, J.B. Pritzker, Bob Reiter, Chicago Federation of Labor, Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, Tim Drea, Illinois AFL-CIO, Barack Obama, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Planned Parenthood lauds Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Brigid Leahy of Planned Parenthood Illinois Action analyzes her legacy and commits to protect it
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Ted CoxRuth Bader Ginsburg, Planned Parenthood, Planned Parenthood of Illinois, Planned Parenthood Illinois Action, Brigid Leahy, J.B. Pritzker, Reproductive Health Act, Title X, Title X Gag Rule, Donald Trump, Roe v. Wade, American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU Women's Rights Project, U.S. Supreme Court, Sandra Day O'Connor, Barack Obama, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, Thurgood Marshall, Antonin Scalia, George W. Bush, Mitch McConnell, Merrick Garland
Not in 'The People's House'
Reps. Quigley, Schakowsky call out ‘nefarious’ misuse of White House by Trump campaign
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Ted CoxHatch Act, Mike Quigley, Jan Schakowsky, Republican National Convention, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Barack Obama, Kellyanne Conway, Sarah Sanders, Ivanka Trump, Melania Trump, Mike Pompeo, Mark Meadows, Bobby Rush, Renato Mariotti
Climate change is an air-pollution issue
Better air quality could save 4.5M U.S. lives over next 50 years, congressional committee finds
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Ted CoxClimate Change, Global Warming, Air Pollution, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform, Drew Shindell, Robin Kelly, Sean Casten, Michael Greenstone, Fine Particulate Matter, Affordable Clean Energy Plan, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Environmental Justice
Environmentalists bash Trump for 'brazen' move on clean cars
Illinois Environmental Council charges EPA is ‘abdicating’ enforcement
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Perdue to farmers: No more trade bailouts
USDA secretary expects China trade resumption, despite delays caused by coronavirus outbreak
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Ted CoxFarm Market Facilitation Program, Sonny Perdue, Donald Trump, Trump Trade War, USDA, Barack Obama, Dick Durbin, USMCA, Illinois Farm Bureau, Richard Guebert Jr., Ethanol Waivers, Illinois Ethanol
Trump lets Blago walk
GOP congressmen ‘disappointed’ as president commutes 14-year sentence for disgraced former governor
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Ted CoxDonald Trump, Rod Blagojevich, Rodney Davis, Dick Durbin, Illinois Corruption, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Patti Blagojevich, J.B. Pritzker, Mike Bost, Adam Kinzinger, Darin LaHood, John Shimkus
Durbin renews charge against cotton bailouts
Illinois soybean farmers slighted in Trump’s trade-war handouts, says senator
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Ted CoxDick Durbin, Donald Trump, Farm Bailout, Illinois Soybean Association, Illinois Soybean Growers, USDA, Sonny Perdue, Farm Market Facilitation Program, Trump Trade War, U.S. Steel Granite City Works, Barack Obama
Chicago must reverse spiral of poverty, shootings
Jens Ludwig of U. of C. Crime Lab says murders prompt flight which produces still more murders
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J.B. volunteers Illinois to go first in prez race
After Iowa debacle, guv tweets, ‘It’s time for the most representative state in the country to be the first in the nation’
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Ted CoxIowa Caucuses, J.B. Pritzker, U.S. Presidential Campaign, U.S. Primary System, Illinois Primary, Donald Trump, Joe Walsh, David Yepsen, Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, SIUC, Politico Illinois, Capitol Fax, Rich Miller, Shia Kapos, Dick Durbin, Kyle Griffin, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney
Medicaid: Latest scapegoat for anti-taxers
States are spending more as health costs rise, it’s true, but federal funding is helping out and providing benefits
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Ted CoxCenter Square, Medicaid, Medicaid Expansion, Barack Obama, Obamacare, ACA, Foundation for Government Accountability, Kaiser Family Foundation, Bruce Rauner, Donald Trump, Medicaid Work Requirement
More Ill. kids going without health insurance
National trend rises at ‘alarming’ rate as Obamacare annual enrollment period begins
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Ted CoxDonald Trump, Barack Obama, Obamacare, Affordable Care Act, Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, Joan Alker, Stephanie Altman, Trump Public Charge Rule, Trump Immigration, Kwame Raoul, Obamacare Enrollment, ACA, ACA Enrollment