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Donald Trump — a tax that’s supposed to serve the poor, his company got $89 million for a tax designated for the poor. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Finance , Politics

Simplified: Donald Trump's company got $89 million from a tax designated for the poor

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It’s easier to mine gold from the government’s treasury than from the side of a mountain. 0.700

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Finance , Government

Simplified: Mining gold from government treasury is easier than from a mountain

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You go to the store with your goods, you pay for it at Wal-Mart, and there’s a very good chance that that store has made a deal with the government that the sales taxes you are required to pay, that g... 0.700

👤 DAVID CAY JOHNSTON 📋 Interview 🏷️ Economics , Government , Finance , Regulation

Simplified: Wal-Mart may have a deal with the government where sales taxes do not go to the government.

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There are twice as many registered lobbyists in Washington today as there were in 1980. 0.900

👤 DAVID CAY JOHNSTON 📋 Interview 🏷️ Politics , Government

Simplified: Registered lobbyists in Washington today are twice as many as in 1980.

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If the lobbying community had grown in revenues since the ’70s at the same rate as the economy, there would be one-tenth as many lobbyists in Washington. 0.800

👤 DAVID CAY JOHNSTON 📋 Interview 🏷️ Politics , Government , Economics

Simplified: Lobbying community growth would be one-tenth as many lobbyists if it matched the economy's growth since the 1970s.

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We allowed people to buy public assets for, in some cases, a fraction of a penny on the dollar and then poured government money into them. 0.700

👤 DAVID CAY JOHNSTON 📋 Interview 🏷️ Economics , Government , Finance

Simplified: People bought public assets for a fraction of a penny on the dollar government money was then poured into them.

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We created healthcare billionaires while making healthcare unavailable to one-in-seven Americans. 0.800

👤 DAVID CAY JOHNSTON 📋 Interview 🏷️ Healthcare , Economics , Wealth

Simplified: Healthcare billionaires were created while healthcare became unavailable to one in seven Americans.

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And of those gains in the year 2000 — it’s either ’05 over ’04 or ’04 over ’03 —- half went to people who make over a million dollars a year. 0.800

👤 DAVID CAY JOHNSTON 📋 Interview 🏷️ Economics , Finance , Wealth

Simplified: Half of income gains went to people making over a million dollars a year.

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And since the year 2000, when we really got serious about this tax cut business, the average income of Americans every year — 2001, ’02, ’03, ’04, ’05 — has been smaller than it was in 2000. 0.900

👤 DAVID CAY JOHNSTON 📋 Interview 🏷️ Economics , Finance

Simplified: Average income of Americans has been smaller since 2000 than in 2000.

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There have been some gains in 2004 and ’05, but they haven’t gotten up to equal 2000. 0.900

👤 DAVID CAY JOHNSTON 📋 Interview 🏷️ Economics , Finance

Simplified: Income gains in 2004 and 2005 did not equal income in 2000.

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the average income of the bottom 90 percent of Americans, what I call the vast majority, is smaller today than it was in 1980 0.900

👤 DAVID CAY JOHNSTON 📋 News Article 🏷️ Finance , Economy

Simplified: Average income of bottom 90 percent of Americans is smaller today than in 1980.

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one-in-seven families has filed bankruptcy in the last twenty-five years? 0.900

👤 DAVID CAY JOHNSTON 📋 News Article 🏷️ Finance , Economy

Simplified: One in seven families has filed bankruptcy in the last twenty-five years.

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Per person, adjusted for inflation, the economy now puts out $1.70 for every dollar that it put out in 1980. 0.900

👤 DAVID CAY JOHNSTON 📋 News Article 🏷️ Economy , Finance

Simplified: Economy now puts out $1.70 per person adjusted for inflation for every dollar in 1980.

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The country is more than twice as wealthy in real terms as it was in 1980. 0.900

👤 DAVID CAY JOHNSTON 📋 News Article 🏷️ Economy , Finance

Simplified: The country is more than twice as wealthy in real terms as in 1980.

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F.B.I. agents on such assignments are often used to provide additional security on the street, while other law enforcement officers do their jobs. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law Enforcement , Government

Simplified: FBI agents on such assignments are often used to provide additional security on the street

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Many others are inexperienced in handling immigration cases. 0.800

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law Enforcement , Government , Immigration

Simplified: Many FBI agents are inexperienced in handling immigration cases

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It can be challenging for F.B.I. agents to make meaningful contributions to such assignments, given that the bureau’s agents are investigators not trained in patrol-focused policing. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law Enforcement , Government

Simplified: FBI agents are investigators not trained in patrol-focused policing

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Today, the cost of a college education, a state college education, is about $10,000 a year. 0.900

👤 DAVID CAY JOHNSTON 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education , Finance

Simplified: State college education costs about $10000 a year today.

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The average income of the bottom half of taxpayers — that’s not families, that’s taxpayers — is about $15,000. 0.900

👤 DAVID CAY JOHNSTON 📋 News Article 🏷️ Finance , Economy

Simplified: Average income of bottom half of taxpayers is about $15000.

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In recent months, roughly 900 F.B.I. agents around the country have been given temporary assignments to help with immigration enforcement. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law Enforcement , Government , Immigration

Simplified: Roughly 900 FBI agents have been given temporary assignments to help with immigration enforcement

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