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• Monthly Budget Review for June 2020
  Congressional Budget Office, July 8, 2020
  The federal budget deficit was $2.7 trillion in the first nine months of fiscal year 2020, CBO estimates, $2.0 trillion more than the deficit recorded during the same period last year.
  
• Opinion: A Wealth Tax Is the Logical Way to Support Coronavirus Relief
  Daniel Markovits, NY Times, April 21, 2020
  A onetime assessment of the 5 percent at the top would do wonders — and help prove that we are all in this together.
  Mr. Markovits is a law professor at Yale and the author of “The Meritocracy Trap.”