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The White House on Monday is rolling out a paper arguing that the GOP’s plan to slash the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 20 percent would “very conservatively” increase average household income by $4,000 per year. “By inducing higher capital investment, reductions in corporate tax rates increase the demand for workers and heighten their productivity,” President Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) said in the paper. The paper had been expected after Trump, citing the CEA, touted the $4,000 figure in a speech on taxes last week in Pennsylvania. “About a $4,000 amount of money addi

Under pressure to shelter close to 58,000 homeless people on a daily basis, New York City has been paying widely varying rates to shelter providers and, until recently, had no set procedure for determining how much to pay, according to a new audit. The state comptroller’s office could not determine whether the city is paying reasonable rates for nearly 750 shelters that have cost the city more than $1.1 billion annually, according to the audit, which looked at a sampling of contracts over a four-year period. Examining 23 new contracts for shelters, auditors concluded that shelter providers nam

Richard Wilbur, whose meticulous, urbane poems earned him two Pulitzer Prizes and selection as the national poet laureate, died on Saturday in Belmont, Mass. He was 96. His son Christopher confirmed his death, in a nursing home. Across more than 60 years as an acclaimed American poet, Mr.

KENO CITY, Yukon Territory — The journey to the heart of Yukon’s historic mineral wealth started with a question posed to a waitress at the aptly titled Gold Rush hotel in Whitehorse, the territorial capital: What’s the weirdest place in Yukon? Her answer was a patch of pay dirt around 290 miles north, past endless forests of spruce and golden-leafed aspen, at the end of a gravel road known as the Silver Trail.

In the days after the shootings at the Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas, many stories emerged of bystander courage. Volunteers combed the grounds for survivors and carried out the injured. Strangers used belts as makeshift tourniquets to stanch bleeding, and then others sped the wounded to hospitals in the back seats of cars and the beds of pickup trucks. These rescue efforts took place before the county’s emergency medical crews, waylaid by fleeing concertgoers, reached the grassy field, an estimated half-hour or more after the shooting began.

BARCELONA, Spain — Facing a deadline to state Catalonia’s intentions in a separatist conflict with Spain, the region’s leader wrote to Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Monday asking to negotiate a solution but declining to clarify whether independence had been declared. Carles Puigdemont, the Catalan leader, asked for an urgent meeting with Mr. Rajoy, according to a draft of the letter, and suggested that the conflict could be resolved, with the help of international mediators, over a period of two months. Mr. Puigdemont also called on Mr.

Will you try something with me? Grab a blank piece of paper, draw a line right down the middle and think of the last time you saw someone fail. It might take you a minute to remember. Got it? Now, on the left side of the paper, write down a few words describing how that failure made you think about that person. Now, I want you to think about the last time you failed. I bet it won’t take nearly as long to recall. On the right side of the paper, jot down a few words describing how that failure made you think about yourself. Finally, compare the two.

Welcome to the Smarter Living newsletter. The Smarter Living team emails readers once a week with tips and advice for living a better, more fulfilling life. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Monday morning. So you woke up early, schlepped over to the gym and killed your workout. That’s great! A morning workout is, in my opinion, the best way to start your day. But a few hours later after settling in at work, it hits you: the burning quads, tight hammies, the arms that feel like spaghetti.

Welcome to the Smarter Living newsletter. The Smarter Living team emails readers once a week with tips and advice for living a better, more fulfilling life. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Monday morning. So you woke up early, schlepped over to the gym and killed your workout. That’s great! A morning workout is, in my opinion, the best way to start your day. But a few hours later after settling in at work, it hits you: the burning quads, tight hammies, the arms that feel like spaghetti.