Across emerging Asia political concerns about rising inequality are prompting reform, often in ways that echo the changes of the Progressive Era a century ago.

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"I invoke him for the notion that capitalists understand when the market needs to be tamed, " he said, specifically aligning himself with the early 20th century Progressive movement rather than the more radical Populists represented by William Jennings Bryan.

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The decline, he says, began with the Progressive era of the early twentieth century, in particular with the Presidency of Woodrow Wilson, when both the Federal Reserve System and the graduated federal income tax came into existence.

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A. Seligman, progressive taxation goes back to Athens during the sixth century B.

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The hospital famously spearheaded progressive treatment for children with mental health issues in the late 19th century.

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The goal was moving along the Progressive Party's vision for what the new America in the 20th century should be.

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Teddy Roosevelt, a Progressive Republican, led the trust-busting crusade at the turn of the century.

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