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  2. Reaganomics - Wikipedia

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    Reagan gives a televised address from the Oval Office, outlining his plan for tax reductions in July 1981.. Reaganomics (/ r eɪ ɡ ə ˈ n ɒ m ɪ k s / ⓘ; a portmanteau of Reagan and economics attributed to Paul Harvey), [1] or Reaganism, were the neoliberal [2] [3] [4] economic policies promoted by U.S. President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s.

  3. Domestic policy of the Ronald Reagan administration

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    Reagan fired 11,345 strikers who did not return to work. Reagan announced that the situation had become an emergency as described in the 1947 Taft Hartley Act, and held a press conference on August 3, 1981 in the White House Rose Garden regarding the strike. Reagan stated that if the air traffic controllers "do not report for work within 48 ...

  4. Scandals of the Ronald Reagan administration - Wikipedia

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    The most well-known and politically damaging of the scandals since Watergate, the Iran-Contra affair came to light in 1986 when Ronald Reagan conceded that the United States had sold weapons to the Islamic Republic of Iran as part of a largely unsuccessful effort to secure the release of six U.S. citizens being held hostage in Lebanon.

  5. Reaganomics vs. Bidenomics: Which President Had the ... - AOL

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    Reagan was first elected in 1980, when the U.S. gross domestic product fell 0.3%, according to data from the World Bank. During his first year in office (1981) the GDP grew 2.5%, but during his ...

  6. Trickle-down economics - Wikipedia

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    Ronald Reagan's economic policies, dubbed "Reaganomics" by opponents, included large tax cuts and were characterized as trickle-down economics.In this picture, he is outlining his plan for the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 from the Oval Office in a televised address, July 1981.

  7. Early 1980s recession in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Ronald Reagan, who had assumed office in January 1981, brought his own economic plan to the table. In August 1981, the president signed the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, a three-year tax cut plan. [12] As the recession deepened in 1982, Reagan's approval rating also dropped.

  8. Opinion: The ideas in Project 2025? Reagan tried them, and ...

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    President Reagan, shown in 1981, based many of his policies on ideas from the Heritage Foundation publication "The Mandate for Leadership." Project 2025 makes up a majority of the latest edition ...

  9. Opinion polling on the Ronald Reagan administration

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    [4] [5] Headed into the 1984 presidential election, Reagan's ratings by CBS recovered, reaching 58% and higher throughout the next two years. [2] However, in January 1987, Gallup revealed that his rating dropped to 49% as a result of the Iran–Contra affair. By December 1988, the near end of his presidency, Reagan's rating recovered again at 63%.