Tag: working poor
member name: Duane B.
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February 16, 2007 11:11 AM EST --
Would you like to pay more or less Federal Income taxes? It sounds like a silly question, but flat tax proposals would shift a sizable tax burden from the top 10% of personal taxpayers to the remaining . . .
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February 22, 2008 09:57 AM EST --
I always experience a twinge of annoyance and irritation whenever I hear someone in government refer to Social Security and Medicare as an "entitlement" when they are trying . . .
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February 06, 2007 10:29 PM EST --
The Tax Foundation, a Washington D.C. nonpartisan tax research organization, is concerned that we have a growing number of lower incomes individuals and families in our nation that are not paying any, . . .
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February 28, 2007 12:24 PM EST --
A twelve-year-old Maryland boy died from complications of an abscessed tooth when the bacteria from the tooth spread to his brain. The boy was hospitalized due to the brain infection and . . .
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March 06, 2007 08:49 AM EST --
The latest example of Washington’s smoke and mirrors on attempting to find a solution to our healthcare crisis is a proposal of SC Senator Jim DeMint to let individuals and families to establish . . .
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February 07, 2007 01:50 PM EST --
The final results on the 2004 Federal Income Tax returns have been published. This analysis breaks down the income and tax information if the approximately 130 million tax returns filed . . .
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May 30, 2007 09:33 AM EDT --
Do you need help with buying enough food for yourself or your family? Do you know someone who needs help with the same problem? Angel Food Ministries is a non-profit organization . . .
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July 04, 2007 03:28 PM EDT --
The recent terrorist attacks in Glasgow Scotland have revealed some interesting data about the universal health care system in the UK. In discussing the involvement of doctors in the attacks, . . .
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July 21, 2007 11:41 AM EDT --
In the four-year period from 2000 to 2004 the number of persons in the US without health insurance for the entire year increased by 15.1%, while the population increased by only 4.2%. . . .
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September 04, 2007 10:05 AM EDT --
A study completed by the University of South Carolina’s Moore School of Business has developed quantitative data linking increased immigration to depressed wages in South Carolina. . . .
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January 28, 2008 08:06 PM EST --
MSN has four interesting articles on the job market in the US. I have posted links to the articles below. The first link is to an article that lists the 25 . . .
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February 26, 2007 11:57 AM EST --
Ten years after sweeping welfare reform designed to get people off welfare roles and working to become self-sufficient, one of six Americans are receiving some form of government aid. The . . .
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October 01, 2007 01:05 PM EDT --
Thirteen years ago Pedro Zapeta left Guatemala and immigrated to the Stuart Florida area. No green card, no visa, he just came to the US to make money he could use to improve the life . . .
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November 11, 2007 10:48 AM EST --
President John. F. Kennedy is credited with the following quote: “A rising tide lifts all boats.” This quote is often used to justify the reduction . . .
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March 04, 2007 11:57 AM EST --
Continuing a trend that began after WWII, the one of the basic institutions of society, marriage, is declining at a steady rate. The number of “married with children” families . . .
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June 17, 2007 10:13 AM EDT --
The US Census Bureau has released new data on US incomes for 2005. In that year the median income for full-time working men was $41.386 and the same number for women was $31,858, about 75% . . .
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August 23, 2007 10:24 AM EDT --
At one end of the spectrum are Jim Bob and Michelle Dugger of Springdale Arkansas, debt-free, happily married Christians, who have 17 children, live in a 7,000 square foot house and have never . . .
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February 01, 2008 10:13 AM EST --
An article in USA today details how well state and local employees are doing in relations to private sector workers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports that state and local . . .
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April 07, 2008 12:48 PM EDT --
A million jobs lost in the last year, 250,000 since January, 80,000 in March and now that forecast that two million jobs may be lost in the current downturn, with unemployment increasing . . .
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March 29, 2007 08:32 PM EDT --
Clive Crook, writing in the April 2007 issue of The Atlantic, takes issue with the term “War on the Middle Class” used by Lou Dobbs of CNN and others who believe that the combination . . .
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