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Among the issues: It would be costly to process such checks, and generating them would draw on the tariff revenue that was intended to help chip away at the increase the tax bill has on the fiscal deficit, he adds.

“By contrast, workers in the bottom 90% are much more likely to be in physically demanding or unstable jobs. Their bodies are worn down earlier, their employers often want younger workers, and yet they also have less wealth and less retirement income to draw on.”

"This will be fine for background music for most people," she continues, "but it won't work for creating the superstars of the future who, of course, draw on the past but then make something completely new out of it."

They had “that old Declaration of Independence” with its moral principle of equality to draw on.

The entries, many of which draw on clinical studies, offer real understanding and give surprising context to ordinary phenomena in this appealing fourth entry in the “Everything You Know About” series.