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1 week, 3 days ago

'Could be a backdoor': Elon Musk's team reportedly given access to 'sensitive income data'

Elon Musk's so-called DOGE group has been granted access to sensitive income data from the Department of Health and Human Services, according to a new report on Saturday. Musk, the richest man in the world and Donald Trump's right hand man, now has access to "a sensitive child support database with troves of income data," according to the Washington Post, …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

Would you consider yourself 'rich'? Here's how much more you need to earn to be considered wealthy in every state compared to 5 years ago

Daily Mail

Scroll down for our interactive map of the changes in each US state in five years The salary to be considered 'rich' has risen in every state in the last five years - as rampaging inflation means everyday spending eats up a bigger chunk of wages. Washington is home to big paying firms like Microsoft and Amazon as well as …

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1 year, 9 months ago

ANZ accused of irresponsible lending, experts warn risk of misrepresented loans grows as rates rise

ABC

Elisabetta Di Nardo has spent almost two years trying to hold the ANZ bank to account for failing to verify the documents provided in her home loan application. Key points: An ANZ customer is taking the bank to the financial complaints authority over irresponsible lending claims The case is being investigated by the Australian Financial Complaints Authority The Australian Banking …

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3 years, 3 months ago

EXPLAINED: What Cooking Fuel, School Attendance Can Say About Deprivation As India Launches New Poverty Index

News 18

India is globally acknowledged to have made big strides on pulling people out of poverty in recent decades. “The National MPI Project is aimed at deconstructing the Global MPI and creating a globally aligned and yet customised India MPI for drawing up comprehensive Reform Action Plans with the larger goal of improving India’s position in the Global MPI rankings,” says …

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4 years, 2 months ago

China’s wide income gap holds back consumer spending

Al Jazeera

China is the only major economy to have grown last year, but a wide income gap is leading to an unbalanced recovery. China’s successful control of Covid-19 made it the only major economy to have grown last year, but a wide income inequality gap and still weak consumer spending reflects an unbalanced recovery. Here’s a deeper look at some of …

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5 years, 11 months ago

Within hours of announcement by Rahul Gandhi, Congress leaders give new definition of income guarantee scheme, make absurd claims

Op India

On 25th March, Rahul Gandhi announced the Congress party’s main promise for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, a Minimum Income Guarantee Scheme. Addressing media, the Congress president had said that the scheme will ensure that poorest 20% of India’s population will be ensured a monthly income of Rs. Further: 1: Every poor family in the bottom 20% will get the …

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8 years, 6 months ago

The Odd Conservative Argument That Food Stamps and Medicaid Saved the Poor From Welfare Reform

Slate

This week marked the 20th anniversary of welfare reform, the landmark legislation signed into law by Bill Clinton that many on the left, myself included, have accused of eviscerating a key part of the safety net that protected the poorest of America’s poor—namely, penniless single mothers. More recently, Johns Hopkins University’s Kathryn Edin and the University of Michigan’s Luke Shaefer …

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10 years, 3 months ago

GDP data show Australia in income recession; falling dollar a 'silver lining'

ABC

The Australian dollar has dropped below 84 US cents for the first time since July 2010 on economic growth less than half what was expected. The Australian Bureau of Statistics gross domestic product data show the economy expanded just 0.3 per cent in the September quarter and only 2.7 per cent over the year to September 30. In further bad …

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11 years, 5 months ago

Right-wing nuts nab new way to sabotage Obamacare

Salon

The final deal to avert a breach of the debt limit and end the government shutdown included what has been described as a “small concession” to Republicans: tightening the income verification measures for customers on the Obamacare insurance exchanges to qualify for subsidies. Rather than letting the health care law survive “unscathed,” the income verification piece could trigger a new …

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15 years, 1 month ago

The top 400: Income way up and taxes way, way down