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CBO Projects Tepid Economic Growth, Rising Deficits Despite Rising Revenues

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Congressional Budget Office, The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2015 to 2025 Congressional Budget Office, The Economic Outlook for 2015 to 2025 in 17 Slides Congressional Budget Office, Presentation with the Release of the Budget and Economic Outlook New York Times, Budget Forecast Sees End to Sharp Deficit Declines Wall Street…


McCormack: (Over-)Taxing the Working Family

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Shannon Weeks McCormack (University of Washington), Uncle Sam and the Childcare Squeeze: (Over-)Taxing the Working Family: Today, it is more common for families to consist of two earners than one, and parents increasingly report that they require two incomes to make ends meet. But parents lucky enough to find themselves…


Cutbacks Are Looming for Law School Income-Based Repayment Programs

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Following up on this morning’s post, NY Times: Has IBR Solved the Student Loan Crisis?: New York Times, A Quiet Revolution in Helping Lift the Burden of Student Debt: The change in college financing has a potentially serious drawback when it comes to college pricing. Income-based repayment programs in Australia…


Blair-Stanek: Intellectual Property Law Solutions to Tax Avoidance

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Andrew Blair-Stanek (Maryland), Intellectual Property Law Solutions to Tax Avoidance, 62 UCLA L. Rev. 2 (2015): Multinational corporations use intellectual property (IP) to avoid taxes on a massive scale, by transferring their IP offshore for artificially low prices. Economists estimate that this abuse costs the U.S. Treasury as much as…


Encouraging Engaged Scholarship: Perspectives from an Associate Dean for Research

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Sonia Katyal (Fordham), Encouraging Engaged Scholarship: Perspectives from an Associate Dean for Research, 31 Touro L. Rev. ___ (2015): Today, there is little question that faculty scholarship is intimately related to the reputation of a law school, and also relatedly, to the law school rankings game. Central to this reality…


NY Times: Has IBR Solved the Student Loan Crisis?

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New York Times, A Quiet Revolution in Helping Lift the Burden of Student Debt: Has the student loan crisis already been solved? This might seem an absurd question. Student loan debt is at a record high of $1.1 trillion, and the average undergraduate who borrows to attend school graduates nearly…


15th Annual Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship Workshop

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The 15th Annual Workshop on Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship, co-taught by Lee Epstein (Washington University) and Andrew D. Martin (Michigan), will run from June 15-17 at Washington University in St. Louis. The workshop is for law school faculty, lawyers, political science faculty, and graduate students interested in learning about empirical…


NY Times: Middle Class Continues to Shrink Under President Obama

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New York Times, Middle Class Shrinks Further as More Fall Out Instead of Climbing Up: The middle class that President Obama identified in his State of the Union speech last week as the foundation of the American economy has been shrinking for almost half a century. In the late 1960s,…


Amazon Offers Self-Publishing For Faculty Books

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Last Thursday, Amazon launched KDP EDU for academics to self-publish books through the Kindle Direct Publishing program: Amazon’s new Kindle Textbook Creator Beta helps you convert PDFs of your textbooks, course notes, study guides and other educational content that includes complex visual information like charts, graphs and equations into Kindle…


How Yahoo Might Sell Billions in Alibaba Stock and Pay No Taxes

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Bloomberg, How Yahoo Might Sell Billions in Alibaba Stock and Pay No Taxes, by Jesse Drucker: Yahoo! on Tuesday is expected to reveal something most companies usually try to keep secret: how it plans to avoid a multibillion-dollar tax bill. The Web portal has spent more than a year figuring…


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