Hourly earnings have moved forward at a crawl, with higher prices giving workers less buying power than they had last summer in US. Workers, understandably, are asking whether they are getting a raw deal.www.nytimes.com
Although the top corporate rate is 35 percent, hardly any company actually pays that. The report, by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a left-leaning research group in Washington, found that 100 of them — nearly 40 percent — paid no taxes in at least one year between 2008 and 2015 www.nytimes.com