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 |  |  |  | | View on the Web. |  | Wednesday, May 29, 2013 | |  |  | | WonkPM is your afternoon update of the latest posts on Wonkblog. WonkPM is a supplement to your morning Wonkbook newsletter. If you'd like to opt-out from receiving WonkPM, please click here. |  | The tobacco industry really took a beating in 1998. The Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) they signed with state attorneys general required them to give states $206 billion in compensation for the Medicaid and other costs of treating sick smokers. But … Continue reading → NBC News reports that the IRS story goes way beyond Cincinnati, “with requests for information coming from other offices and often bearing the signatures of higher-ups at the agency, according to attorneys representing some of the targeted groups.” I was … Continue reading → The Federal Reserve is famous for its verbal acrobatics, but it is now facing a particularly high hurdle: convincing the markets that doing less actually means doing more. On Wednesday, Eric Rosengren, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of … Continue reading → The U.N. has set a big, ambitious goal of making sure everyone in the world has access to electricity by 2030. And how’s that going? Not so well. That’s one upshot of a new progress report out from the International Energy … Continue reading → Welcome to Health Reform Watch, Sarah Kliff's regular look at how the Affordable Care Act is changing the American health-care system — and being changed by it. You can reach Sarah with questions, comments and suggestions here. Check back every Monday, … Continue reading → | | | |
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