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States set to enact new laws in 2024 on guns, fuzzy dice and taxes

Dec 30, 2023 View Original Article
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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    85% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    2% Negative

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57% : Missouri also will reduce its income tax rate while expanding tax exemptions for Social Security benefits and military training pay.
56% : The state also is replacing gender-specific terms in state law; "mother" is being replaced with "birthing parent" and "father" with "non-birthing parent.
49% : The new year brings a variety of new laws on taxes and wages -- perennial issues for state governments.More than 20 states will raise minimum wages for workers, further widening the gap between state requirements and the federal minimum, which has been static at $7.25 an hour since July 2009.
46% : By contrast, a new Illinois law would block state funding for public libraries that ban or restrict books.
44% : "In Colorado, new buildings wholly or partly owned by government entities will be required to have on every floor where there are public restrooms at least one that does not specify the gender of the users.
40% : Lower-income workers and retirees also stand to benefit from expanded tax breaks.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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