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A crowd of depositors gather in the rain outside Bank of United States after its failure in 1931 during the Great Depression. Photo by World Telegram staff photographer from the Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons.Last week story on the history of the top income tax rate in America featured, as tour guide, Columbia University professor of tax law Alex Raskolnikov. After the story ran he sent us this email:I hope our recent discussion of the relationship between marginal tax rates, economic growth, and inequality was illuminating and informative for PBS viewers. The relationship is, indeed, complicated. But some things are quite straightforward and unambiguous. And it is extremely important not to confuse the two.For example, the so-called Black Tuesday the U.S. stoc
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The New York State Department of Education earlier this week released 50 percent of the Common Core-based English and math questions from exams taken by students in the third through eighth grades last spring, in response to requests from educators and parent-teacher associations.聽 We ;ve listened to New York State educators make the case that having more test questions available would benefit our kids so we ;ve doubled the number and provided a thorough explanation for every student response, said Education Commissioner John B. King Jr. in a statement.The release, accompanied by a letter from the commissioner, comes after a growing Release the Tests campaign by parent-teacher associations, reports the Poughkeepsie Journal.In 2013, New York St
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