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April 26, 2021 7:02 AM By Zachary Sherwood and Brandon Lee President Joe Biden is poised to unveil a plan that would raise taxes on the income, investments and estates of the wealthiest Americans to levels not seen in more than four decades, a move that will trigger intense debate in Congress about whether and how to address income inequality. Biden’s “American Families Plan,” itself featuring the biggest expansion of federal support for lower-income and middle-class Americans in decades, will be offset by a series of tax increases on the wealthy, administration off...

Ket4up/ThinkstockPhotos Places that don't have broadband are shown as having broadband, problem spans farmland, mountains and areas just beyond suburbs. Bloomberg | Apr 05, 2021 By Todd Shields and Rebecca Kern Federal maps show R. Clay Jackson’s beef cattle farm in rural Madison County, Virginia, is awash in broadband -- a designation that likely rules it out of President Joe Biden’s push to connect all Americans to fast internet service. “The assessment is incorrect,” Jackson, owner of Senterfitt Farms and chairman of the Madison County Board of Supervisors...

Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, a new email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Like what you see here? You can join the mailing list at the bottom of this article and receive more conversations like this in your inbox each week. Dr. Lisa Pruitt, the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at U.C. Davis, was raised in rural Newton County, Arkansas. She writes about silences on rurality in academic legal literature in academic journals and on her blog, Legal Ruralism.

On June 30, 2020, The Arkansas Traveler published my column addressing the University’s need to remove the late Senator James William Fulbright’s name and image from campus. Although Sen. Fulbright championed student exchange programs, he was an avid segregationist — a visionary for segregated classrooms, dormitories and dining halls.  This summer, many Black UA students called for the removal of Fulbright’s statue from Old Main and his name from the College of Arts and Sciences. In July, the UA administration organized a committee of students and faculty to recomme...

March 12, 2021 7:00 AM By Zachary Sherwood and Brandon Lee President Joe Biden offered a Fourth of July goal for the U.S. to begin returning to normal as “light in the darkness” to a weary nation last night, counting on a rapidly expanding supply of coronavirus vaccine to raise American hopes. In his first prime-time address as president, Biden told states he wants all adults in the U.S. made eligible for vaccines by May 1. That vision was already within reach before his announcement, on the first anniversary of lockdowns that paralyzed the world’s largest economy. ...