HeyJaredMichael Hiltzik
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Today's tycoons learn a lesson from history — public esteem for rich entrepreneurs inevitably sours (opens the original)
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It's a story that seems almost as old as time itself: business tycoons forced to make a public defense — whether before a jury or a congressional committee or in the court of public opinion — of products that made them billionaires but turned out to exert hidden harm on society. They often betray their shock at being brought to public book by displaying a deer-in-the-headlights look from the witness table while making performatively abject apologies or insisting on the world-changing virtues of
The US national debt has reached $40 trillion. Should you care? (opens the original)
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By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times (TNS) Americans have gotten used to hearing big numbers from the federal government since the 1960s, when Sen. Everett Dirksen, R-Ill., supposedly uttered his famous quote, "A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money." But a much bigger number caught people's attention in the last week. That was the revelation that the national debt had reached $40 trillion. The news provoked vigorous hand-wringing across the partisan spectrum
Ordinary Americans struggle to fund their 401(k) plans while plutocrats fill theirs with tax-free millions (opens the original)
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For a half-century, Congress has been offering middle- and working-class Americans options for tax-advantaged individual retirement savings, largely to compensate for the disappearance of traditional pensions. But the transition from so-called defined benefit pensions to defined contribution accounts such as 401(k) plans and individual retirement accounts hasn't worked for millions of Americans. Roughly 40% of working Americans don't have any retirement savings at all, and among those who do, th
Trump administration finds a new way to screw Medicare members — hiking their drug bills (opens the original)
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By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times (TNS) All policy wonks worth their salt know there are a few ways to kill a government program. One is for Congress to abolish it. If the lawmakers aren't so inclined, a hostile administration can get its way by starving the program of resources or making it harder for people to sign up or stay enrolled. That's been the Trump White House's approach to Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare — make them more expensive to use and saddle the beneficiaries with m
Here are all the ways that Trump has tried to kill US science research (opens the original)
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Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times (TNS) A few days ago, the Trump administration issued a 123-page report heralding a "new golden age" for U.S. science. The key, said the report, published in the name of Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, was to ensure that the approval of federal research grants "rests purely on merit, not the political fashions of the day." There isn't much to say about this goal, other than that the White House has some ner
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