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Posts tagged Federal Reserve
It's no time to go low
Sen. Durbin holds out hope for aid to state and local gov’ts, but compromise relief bill is just a stopgap
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Ted CoxCoronavirus, Coronavirus Relief, Coronavirus Stimulus, COVID-19, COVID-19 Relief, Dick Durbin, Mitch McConnell, Heroes Act, CARES Act, Federal Reserve, Municipal Liquidity Facility, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Rand Paul
COVID relief is not a shell game
It’s absurd to use stimulus funding to simply pay off debts, for states as well as individual taxpayers
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Ted CoxCoronavirus, Coronavirus Relief, COVID-19, COVID-19 Relief, Illinois Coronavirus, Illinois COVID-19, Federal Reserve, J.B. Pritzker, Municipal Liquidity Facility, Susana Mendoza, Joe Biden, Illinois Policy Institute, Rebuild Illinois, Janet Yellen, Jerome Powell, Steve Mnuchin, Rural Broadband
Don't be a COVID turkey this Thanksgiving
Pritzker, Ezike make final pleas to stay home as guv lays out plans for fiscal stopgap
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Ted CoxCoronavirus, Illinois Coronavirus, COVID-19, Illinois COVID-19, Illinois COVID-19 Toll, Illinois COVID-19 Testing, J.B. Pritzker, Ngozi Ezike, Federal Reserve, Municipal Liquidity Facility, Joe Biden
The headless horseman of Illinois politics
Ghost of Bruce Rauner’s austerity agenda rose up, financed by Ken Griffin, and rode roughshod over the state, but how did it sway voters?
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Ted CoxHeadless Horseman, Bruce Rauner, Kenneth Griffin, Richard Uihlein, University of Illinois at Chicago, Christopher Mooney, Thomas Kilbride, 2020 Presidential Election, Illinois Fair Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Fair Tax Amendment, Citizens for Judicial Fairness, Illinois Sunshine, J.B. Pritzker, Municipal Liquidity Facility, Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, Coronavirus Relief, COVID-19 Relief, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Donald Trump
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
Jobless claims remain above pre-COVID record
Filings in Illinois edge downward, but Fed chairman says we’re a long way from full employment
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States 'dependent' on Congress relief: Pritzker
Guv calls free aid to corporations ‘illogical,’ Durbin pledges Senate action
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Ted CoxIllinois COVID-19 Response Fund, Coronavirus, Coronavirus Relief, COVID-19, COVID-19 Relief, Illinois Coronavirus, Illinois COVID-19, J.B. Pritzker, Dick Durbin, Federal Reserve, Heroes Act, Chicago Community Trust, Penny Pritzker
Where will cities, states find COVID relief?
The federal government is the only source of economic aid, so why is the Federal Reserve charging penalties for critical funding?
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Ted CoxCoronavirus, Coronavirus Relief, COVID-19, COVID-19 Relief, Illinois COVID-19, Lori Lightfoot, J.B. Pritzker, Laurence Msall, Civic Federation, Heroes Act, CARES Act, Federal Reserve, Municipal Liquidity Facility, Amanda Kass, Martin Luther King, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Countercyclical aid: Common sense
RTA, CTA, Metra, Pace plead for COVID-19 relief, illustrating the need of state and local governments in an economic crisis
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Ted CoxCoronavirus, Coronavirus Relief, COVID-19, COVID-19 Relief, RTA, CTA, Metra, Pace, Countercyclical Aid, CARES Act, Heroes Act, Donald Trump, Federal Reserve, Municipal Liquidity Facility, Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, Jerrold Nadler, Andrew Yang, Mitch McConnell
House progressives call on Fed to loosen purse strings for state loans
Reps. Schakowsky, Garcia join in letter seeking COVID relief
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Ted CoxCoronavirus Relief, COVID-19 Relief, Jan Schakowsky, Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, J.B. Pritzker, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Municipal Liquidity Facility, Charles Evans, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, The Squad
Pandemic crash requires global solutions
International report urges minimum corporate tax rates and tax on wealth, with COVID-19 costs paid by firms benefiting from pandemic
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Ted CoxCOVID-19 Economic Collapse, Pandemic Economy, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation, Oxfam, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Piketty, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Federal Reserve, U.S. Taxes, U.S. Corporate Tax Rate
Fed targets smaller bizzes to boost jobs
Main Street Lending Program expanded to small, mid-size businesses to provide COVID-19 relief
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Ill. first state to borrow from fed relief fund
State will draw $1.2B from Federal Reserve’s COVID-19 Municipal Liquidity Facility
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Ted CoxCoronavirus Relief, Coronavirus, Illinois Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 Relief, Illinois COVID-19, Alexis Sturm, Federal Reserve, Municipal Liquidity Facility, J.B. Pritzker, Cheri Bustos, Heroes Act, Mitch McConnell
