Tag: Congress
Make tech companies earn trust
We all agree, they said. Please make more rules for us, they said. Give more money to our regulators, they said. When an assemblage...
Let’s get smart on college outcomes
Americans with bachelor’s degrees stand to make $1 million more in their careers than those with just high school diplomas. Meanwhile, the sticker prices...
Investor visa program should be scrapped
The omnibus spending bill recently signed by President Donald Trump includes a small but ill-conceived program. The EB-5 Regional Center program that gives visas...
Congressional spending bill extends CHIP, RIte Care funding 6 years
PROVIDENCE— Congress’s spending bill that extended federal services through Feb. 8 on Monday also funded the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, for six...
Year-end tax planning strategies for businesses
Businesses should consider making expenditures that qualify for the business property expensing option. For 2017, the expensing limit is $510,000 and the investment ceiling...
CHIP funding expiration risks 27K R.I. children’s health care coverage as...
PROVIDENCE — Congress missed the Sept. 30 deadline to extend the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, which provided low-cost health insurance to 9...
Ground is shifting on health care
Congress’ failed effort to undo Obamacare this year revealed an important political shift in the U.S.: Americans are no longer content to let people...
Congress’ legacy can be universal health insurance
I miss you, Bernie Sanders, with your pie-in-the-sky promise of universal health care. So unpragmatic.Actually, I miss a slew of unpragmatic legislation, including the...
Making lawsuits work for consumers
Congressional Republicans and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are clashing over a question that has implications far beyond the world of finance: How far...
