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economy The Act was passed in December 2017 just over eight months ago and it went into effect a month later Further it was not clear until a very late stage that the Act would pass As late as November...Otter Tail Power is also reducing its rates Residential customers will see savings of about 3 10 a month where commercial customers will have a 18 25 rate cut Minnesota companies have also donated more than...on data from the BLS Current Employment Statistics and shows the net gain or loss of jobs in each month since January 2017 It shows that hiring goes through cycles in Minnesota Jobs are added during the...

2028 For example the Congressional Budget Office CBO projects that the TCJA will grow Americans inflation adjusted income by just 0 1 percent after 10 years while leaving our nation in a markedly worse...corresponding limits on itemized deductions and the impact of bracket creep due to indexing for inflation using the chained CPI ultimately only reduce marginal tax rates on wages by less than 2 percentage...

July 1983 the beginning of an expansion that lasted until 1991 That record was nearly eclipsed last month when the Index reached 107 9 The 45 year average of the Index is 98 In October 2016 the Index was...1 NFIB mails 10 000 questionnaires on the first day of each month to a random sample of its members Responses come back over the entire month and are accumulated on the last day to produce the data set...set used in the monthly Small Business Economic Trends report At any point in a month the responses accumulated to date can be accessed and used in analyses producing before and after measures surrounding...

data protection regulation and lessons us privacy policy 3 The GDPR entered into force less than one month ago but the regulation has already resulted in several notable changes for Internet users in the EU...com ProfJeffJarviss last visited June 18 2018 19 See e g Alice O Connor Loadout Shutting down this Month ahead of GDPR Rock Paper Shotgun May 9 2018 https www rockpapershotgun com 2018 05 09 loadout shutting...meritorious complaints of anticompetitive conduct there is ample cause to be skeptical of this claim This month the Initiative on Global Markets at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business polled a panel...

acknowledged that the European Union is setting the rules of the road for data privacy with last month s implementation of the EU General Data Protection Regulation GDPR Let s be clear the GDPR is a European...

GDPR the General Data Protection Reg ulation It went into force on May 25 2018 and in just over a month it has already had major effects on how digital trade occurs between the United States and the European...the United States As mentioned the EU s General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR took effect last month It establishes a single set of rules for personal data protection throughout the EU and grants individ...European Union with their comprehensive approach to privacy through the GDPR which went into place last month has really begun to set the global framework around the approach to privacy But there is an alternative...

inflationary When output rises prices fall As I look at the best measure of inflation commodity prices I don t see worrisome signs of inflation Let s not let the Fed take away the punch bowl from this party just...

earnings they fail to see that the median worker today is not necessarily the same person as last month or last year or a decade ago It is possible for these measures to de cline even when wage rates are...not going to change that Wages are stuck The typical worker s hourly wages after adjust ing for inflation were lower in August than they were a year ago What has increased is the cost of this tax giveaway...for years The typical man working full time year round earned less in 2017 after adjusting for inflation than in 1973 While earnings have been stagnant or shrinking the cost of childcare of housing of...

Income Growth Act of 2018 which was introduced by Senator Schumer and Ranking Member Heinrich this month and an identical bill that was just introduced by Representative Maloney would help us to understand...the U S Bureau of Economic Analysis releases a new estimate of quarterly or annual GDP growth every month Distributional national accounts would add to this release an estimate that disaggregates the topline...

the difference between the current value of such a measure and what this measure was in a previous month or year But because cash earnings do not include the important fringe benefits available in many jobs...measured in dollars and are thus affected by changes in the value of a dollar over time due to inflation In addition to the difficulty with focusing on cash earnings in the numerator the denominator in...account the personal income part of tax reform the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 after tax real after inflation compensation grew 1 4 percent over the past year well above the near zero real wage change suggested...