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Experts want a big corporate tax cut
The plan presented to Congress yesterday to cut the corporate tax rate would increase income and lead to higher wages. John Diamond, fellow in public finance, says it ...
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U.S. Energy Security and the Weakening of U.S.-Saudi Ties
New strategic divergences are straining the U.S.-Saudi friendship, including huge increases in U.S. energy production, waning American interest in Mideast entanglement and starkly different positions on the Arab ...
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April 21, 2014, 8 a.m.
Prospects for U.S.-Mexico Trade
David A. Gantz, the Samuel M. Fegtly Professor ...
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Civic Scientist Lecture Series — Anita Jones on Cybersecurity and Civil Society
In this lecture, Anita Jones will share her ...
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Founded in 1993, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy has established itself as one of the premier nonpartisan public policy think tanks in the country. The institute ranks 11th among university-affiliated think tanks worldwide, 20th among U.S. think tanks and fifth among energy and resource think tanks, according to a 2013 study by the University of Pennsylvania's Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program.
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