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Jason Linkins

New York Times Reporters Do Not Understand How Marginal Tax Rates Work

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.20.2012 | Media
Read More: Eat the Press, Preventable Diseases, Media Criticism, New York Times, Marginal Tax Rates, Innumeracy, Math, New York Times Tax Rates, Media News

For whatever reason, an article titled "Investors Rush to Beat Threat of Higher Taxes" was published by The New York Times despite the fact that it c...

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Jason Linkins

USA Today Fails 'Math For Grownups'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.06.2011 | Media
Read More: Eat the Press, Laura Laing, USA Today, Explainers, Math for Grownups, USA Today Math for Grownups, Math for Grown Ups, Math for Grownups USA Today, Marginal Tax Rates, Innumeracy, Laura Laing Math for Grownups, Media News

Laura Laing is the author of a book called Math For Grownups. Gregory Connolly is an ostensibly grown-up journalist, tasked by USA Today to summarize some "tips" from Laing's book. But in his summary, Connolly doesn't seem to get how taxes work.

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Jason Linkins

Pawlenty's Pretty Sure Bank Of America's Taxes Are Too Damn High

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Corporate Tax Rates, 2012 Speculation, Carly Fiorina, Bank of America, 2012 Election, 2012 Speculatron, Tim Pawlenty, Innumeracy, John McCain, 2012, Video, Politics News

Corporate tax rates! I still have fond memories of the 2008 campaign, where Senator John McCain and his sometime-surrogate business super-genius Car...

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Jason Linkins

Congressional Budget Office: Sometimes Wonks Have To Explain Their Work To Morons

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, Cbo, Health Care Reform, Mike Crapo, Innumeracy, Congressional Budget Office, Idiots, Eat the Press, Politics News

Allow me to state for the record that I have great sympathy for the dedicated professionals at the Congressional Budget Office. In Washington's parti...

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Failing the Test: Did Our Discomfort With Numbers Doom Health Reform?

Abdulrahman El-Sayed | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Education, Education Policy, Health Care Reform, Innumeracy, Climate Change, Policy, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Science Education, Healthcare, Politics News
Abdulrahman El-Sayed

While the implications of our national falling-out with numbers on the strength of our technical workforce are obvious, the policy implications of this trend may be more insidious.

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Jason Linkins

Will Fox News Enforce Its "Zero Tolerance" Policy On Recent Error? [UPDATE]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Polls, Zero-Tolerance-Policy, Fox News Errors, Polling, Media Criticism, Media Matters, Fox News, Innumeracy, Eat the Press, Media News

Back in November Fox News Channel, in response to a series of widely reported on-air mistakes, issued a memo that stated: Effective immediately, ther...

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