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Tax bill's attack on higher education undermines America's economic vitality

  • Written by Benjamin J. Cohen, Professor of International Political Economy, University of California, Santa Barbara

With the Senate’s passage of the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” President Donald Trump seems close to notching his first legislative victory – a huge tax cut for the 1 percent. All that remains is the need to reconcile the Senate bill with the version passed earlier by the House of Representatives.

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