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Tax Tools #6 – Retirement
This is a brief summary of findings about retirement and future financial plans. The research is based on recent listening sessions with voters, and the January 7-10 survey of 1200 voters. Key Takeaways 1.) Retirement was a prevalent concern throughout the research. Concern about running out of income in retirement
The Challenge Trump Still Faces On The Economy
The Winston Group’s David Winston is quoted in an article in today’s Wall Street Journal about President Trump’s address to Congress last night. Read the full piece here.
Roll Call: Setting the record straight on Biden’s spending
The Winston Group’s David Winston writes in today’s Roll Call about how much Presidents Trump and Biden spent during their terms, and who is to blame for the near-historic inflation levels. The scale of spending was clearly a central concern about inflation. Ask almost anyone in Washington how much money
Education Recovery Scorecard: “Pockets of Success”
Less than two weeks after the 2024 NAEP scores were released — showing continued declines in reading and stagnation in math — the latest Education Recovery Scorecard was released, bearing similar news. The report, produced by the Center for Education Policy at Harvard University and The Educational Opportunity Project at
Washington Never Returned To Pre-COVID Spending Levels
Washington is in an uproar over DOGE’s cost-cutting measures, but the inconvenient truth is that the federal government never returned to pre-COVID spending levels after the pandemic was over. Former President Biden announced COVID was over on September 18, 2022. On April 10, 2023, he signed the termination of the COVID-19 national emergency
President Biden’s Final Score On Inflation
This morning’s inflation report came in hot with a 3% year over year Consumer Price Index. With this report being for the month of January, today’s result is the final score on inflation for the Biden presidency, putting the cumulative rate of inflation since the Biden inaugural month to the last