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A 2025 U.S. federal budget reconciliation law combining tax cuts with changes to Medicaid eligibility, SNAP work requirements, and other spending programs.
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Searchlight Institute counts more than 100 rural data centers in development that could claim a federal opportunity-zone tax break starting January 1. Its analyst says capital investment is the only condition, so any jobs a county wants have to be written into its own deal.
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Private jets make up about 7% of FAA-handled flights but pay 0.6% of the taxes into the fund that helps finance it, Transportation Department data show. The one repeal effort Fortune reports targets a Massachusetts sales-tax exemption, and that bill is still in committee.
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Nine states and D.C. expect over 281,000 lawfully present immigrants, refugees and asylees among them, to lose Medicaid in October. CBO's estimate of 100,000 more uninsured by 2034 is a net figure for years out, so the gap depends on how many find other insurance.
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SNAP's work requirement now covers adults up to 64 under the OBBBA, cutting off jobless people like a Wisconsin social worker waiting to turn 54. Older applicants still looking for work now keep food aid by logging monthly hours, where they once could wait for a birthday.
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A House committee has voted to let gamblers deduct all of their losses again, retroactive to tax years beginning after December 31, 2025, so the cap written into July's tax law would never touch a filed return.
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Eight of the ten biggest solar-building states voted for Trump, and the trade group credits cheap land and fast permitting. The quarter's 45 percent gain also reflects a construction rush before federal credits expired.
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The federal seed pays only when a guardian opens the account, so the employers now matching it have budgeted a per-child cost whose real size depends on how many of their own workers file the paperwork.
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A Fortune essay puts the top quintile at roughly 60% of US consumer spending, July wages 0.20 points behind prices, and grocery Buy Now Pay Later at double its level two years ago. All three come from the same essay.
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RSM's Harris Poll survey of 500 middle market executives found 59% raising capital investment over three years because of immediate expensing, and 70% of those said most of that money is projects moved earlier.
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The IRS published 45Z's 2026 emissions rate table this week and, in Notice 2026-53, a safe harbor for 2025 fuel. The Energy Department is still building the manure updates to the model that sizes each credit.
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A Dallas Morning News column puts sign-ups for the $1,000 newborn seed below one in ten eligible children. The $7 billion that Dell and Dalio money has layered on top reaches only the families who enrol.
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Debt held by the public went from 32% of GDP to 100% in a quarter century, and the budget hawks' own decomposition says removing any one of tax cuts, new spending or crisis response would have left it near where it started.
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A STAT opinion piece sets NIH's 13% award rate beside Medicaid's shift to twice-yearly renewals to argue both losses will arrive through documentation, though only the Medicaid half comes with a measured denominator.
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Expanding nutrition coaching and produce prescriptions runs through dietitians, whose mean pay sits roughly $40,000 below adjacent clinical licenses and whose intake has been contracting since well before the 2024 master's mandate.
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With the 2017 brackets made permanent, the bet that tomorrow's rates must be higher no longer carries a conversion on its own, and the advisors quoted by American Banker are pricing the decision off carryover losses, charitable gifts and gap years instead.
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The Treasury paid out $71.2 billion in tariff refunds across May and June against $45.6 billion collected, per Tax Foundation figures. The deficit case for the import taxes now runs backwards.
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Proposed regs cap eligible investments at 0.1% in annual fees and require an unleveraged US equity index fund until the year the child turns 17. Seven million accounts are already open.
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The Aug. 19 update splits the OBBBA's statutory rewrites from mere clarifications, and ends reliance on a 2020 proposed rule that let CFC income pad adjusted taxable income.
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A Tax Foundation analysis puts a decade of deficit reduction from taxing carried interest as ordinary income at $16.3 billion, and at $6.1 billion once behavior adjusts.
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A two-hour Minneapolis radar outage disrupted 1,100 flights. The Verge argues it is the bill for a handoff from Musk's DOGE to Thiel's Palantir, with none of the new money going to staffing.
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Invest · August 16, 2026 · 1 publisher