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Election 2024

Do candidates follow through on economic promises if elected?

by Kimberly Adams
Aug 16, 2024
There’s only so much control a president has over economic policy, but promises give voters a sense of what a candidate will attempt.
Vice President Kamala Harris has promised that if elected, she will focus on the care economy, efforts to curb food costs and investments in housing.
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Elections 2020

Comparing Biden’s and Trump’s economic policies

by Janet Nguyen
Sep 18, 2020
The 2020 election coincides with an economic downturn.
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Workplace Culture

There's growing support for a new way of collectively bargaining

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Nov 1, 2019
Several Democratic presidential candidates are pushing for sectoral bargaining, in which whole industries are unionized instead of a single company.
Members of the United Auto Workers and supporters picket outside of General Motors Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly during the strike in September.
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The hardest campaign job you don’t get paid for

by Lewis Wallace
Oct 27, 2016
Surrogates often end up doing candidates’ dirty work.
Pastor John Burns, an Evangelical Christian televangelist and surrogate for the presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, speaks at a campaign rally in Anaheim, California.   
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Presidential candidates look to talk shows as campaigning tool

by Janet Nguyen
Nov 6, 2015
Bad dancing and all.
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A long view of the flat tax

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Oct 29, 2015
One historian takes us through America's brief flirtations with the tax policy
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Why equal time for candidates may not be so equal

by Nova Safo
Oct 23, 2015
Donald Trump's appearance on SNL will give other candidates bargaining power.
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How much is Donald Trump actually worth?

by Tony Wagner
Oct 20, 2015
Our best guess is around $?.?? billion.
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Final Note

Bernie Sanders reinvigorated through social media

by Kai Ryssdal
Oct 13, 2015
The Vermont senator isn't getting enough network love, so he'll trend on Twitter.
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Oh, the stories campaign money tells....

by Noel King
Oct 1, 2015
The latest donation totals give candidates a chance to spin their narratives.
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