As HuffPost reported Tuesday, the end of the payroll tax holiday, which dropped the payroll tax from 6.2 to 4.2percentt, was among the least-discussed but perhaps most economically consequential elements of fiscal cliff negotiations.
If they want to be relevant again they have to connect the dots: The explosion of income and wealth among America's super-rich, the dramatic drop in their tax rates, the consequential devastating budget squeezes in Washington and in state capitals, and the slashing of public services for the middle class and the poor.
When we launched a new suite of policies in 2014 to support our people's professional and personal development inside and outside our walls, including an industry-leading paid leave policy for parents, we saw employee turnover drop 5 percentage points, with a consequential reduction in our client loss.
The oft-noted 84% to 55% decrease in errors when using CPOE [ 4, 5] drops to a statistically insignificant 17% when examining consequential errors.
Then there's the secondary but about to become rather consequential beneficial impact of a tightening components, material and services supply chain, reversing 2008′s drop off the cliff as everyone cut back on maintenance and overhaul.
And, on the larger events, those that directly affect the key moral questions, such as, in "Fat Man," Groves's virtual blackmailing of Oppenheimer to get his support for the dropping of the bomb on Japan, these events are simply too consequential to be based on manipulations of the facts.
The story, a result of an anonymous tip, proved to be one of the most consequential and widest-read in the history of campaign reporting; it led to calls for Trump to drop out of the race just weeks before Election Day.
Reagan was consequential.
These distinctions are consequential.
