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Key question for Matildas after recent turnaround; David Weiner analysis

Dec 8, 2024 | nine.com.au | David Weiner

32, 423. 40. 13. Those three numbers sum up the crucial juncture the Matildas find themselves in as 2024 draws to a close, without a permanent coach and with the news that Sam Kerr is still months away from returning from injury. For the Matildas to average attendances of 32,423 fans across four international friendlies within a week is an almighty rebuttal to the argument that 'Matildas Mayhem' has subsided, as much as other codes wish to drum up that argument.
Richard C. Auxier

May 1, 2024 | taxpolicycenter.org | Richard C. Auxier |Nikhita Airi |David Weiner |Kim Rueben

BiographyRichard C. Auxier is a principal policy associate in the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. His work focuses on state and local tax policy, budgets, and other finance issues. Before joining Urban, Auxier was on the staff of the DC Tax Revision Commission and helped write the commission's final report on recommendations for improving the District's tax system. He also was previously a researcher and editor at the Pew Research Center.
Radical tax simplification: The impossible dream?

Mar 1, 2024 | brookings.edu | Tracy Gordon |David Weiner |Richard Rubin

Almost everyone thinks the tax system should be simpler, but almost every year it gets more complicated. Does it have to be that way? There is massive potential for simplification, but it comes at a cost: reduced flexibility for families and businesses to use the tax code to meet their specific needs.
Constructing a Child Tax Credit That Fits Every State

Feb 28, 2024 | taxpolicycenter.org | Richard C. Auxier |David Weiner |Nikhita Airi |Robert McClelland
Constructing a Child Tax Credit That Fits Every State

Feb 28, 2024 | urban.org | Richard C. Auxier |David Weiner |Nikhita Airi
Constructing a Child Tax Credit That Fits Every State

Feb 28, 2024 | taxpolicycenter.org | Richard C. Auxier |David Weiner |Nikhita Airi |Robert McClelland
Constructing a Child Tax Credit That Fits Every State

Feb 28, 2024 | taxpolicycenter.org | Richard C. Auxier |David Weiner |Nikhita Airi
Insect Apocalypse?

Jan 11, 2024 | times-georgian.com | David Weiner

Q: I just read an article online about something called the “Insect Apocalypse” Is this real? A: This is a great and very timely question for a number of reasons. The very first reason is simple: if all the insects in the world disappeared, life as we know it on Earth would end. Think about that for a minute. The insects that pollinate our food supply would be gone and so would the crops we depend on. Birds and other vertebrates that feed on insects would die off. No food, no humans.
Modified messenger-RNA components alter the encoded protein

Dec 13, 2023 | nature.com | David Weiner

NEWS AND VIEWS 13 December 2023 Modified components of messenger RNA can cause the protein-production machinery to stall during the process of translation. This might change the protein being made, a finding with implications for vaccines or therapies. Advances made in messenger RNA technology led to two mRNA vaccines that target SARS-CoV-2 having an important role in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Los Angeles vegan community provides holiday refuge for turkeys – Daily News - deleciousfood

Nov 21, 2023 | deleciousfood.com | David Weiner |Magnum Hermosa

By DAVID WEINER | City press serviceMore than 46 million turkeys will be killed for Thanksgiving dinners this year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, but the beleaguered animals have few friends in the Southland who will celebrate the holiday without eating birds.