Obama plan could boost state’s recovery President Obama’s jobs plan would provide some $5 billion in payroll tax cuts to Massachusetts workers while providing additional aid to help put thousands of unemployed people back to work, according to an analysis released yesterday by the White House.
Time to raise taxes on the rich According to new data released by the U.S. Census Bureau this week, median household incomes adjusted for inflation declined by 2.3% in 2010 over the previous year. The data also showed that 46.2 million Americans lived in poverty in 2010 — the highest number in the 52 years the Census Bureau has been tracking such […]
Why Happy Employees Equal Happy Investors That whimper you hear is what’s left of the economic recovery. Markets are wobbling, joblessness remains high, consumer spending has slipped, and revised figures show — oops! — the economy didn’t grow from 2007 to 2010, as the government originally reported. Adjusted for inflation, it shrank.
Advocate Senate Addresses Antigay Bullying Epidemic Student anti-LGBT bullying cases âare probably the largest growth area - on the U.S. Justice Departmentâs Civil Rights Division docket, Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez told lawmakers Tuesday.
Nieman Journalism Lab Will BostonGlobe.com give papers a blueprint to avoid Apple’s 30% cut? Getting online readers to pay for news is a challenge, but the new BostonGlobe.com offers hope for newspapers that want to create an app-like experience but control their own distribution.
Rick Perry, Human Pinata At the CNN-Tea Party Debate in Tampa, Mitt Romney gave one of the strongest performances of his political career in front of a crowd that did not seem to care. From the standpoint of audience approval, with only a few exceptions, this was Rick Perry’s night. Watching this man play to his natural constituency, it […]
Norwayâs Prisons: A Model For The U.S.? After the shooting in Norway that killed over 70, observers outside the country were astonished to learn that the longest prison sentence in Norway’s system is 21 years. Also, capital punishment there is illegal.
Antibiotics in Pork Draw More Scrutiny By Inspectors U.S. inspectors on Monday started using more sensitive tests to detect antibiotics in pork, part of a stepped-up effort to ensure meat safety after a government report last year suggested consumers might be at risk from harmful drug residues.
CNBC American Economic Decline? Exaggerated With a recent ratings downgrade, chronic unemployment, a growing budget deficit and a political system that seems determined to self-destruct, it might appear that the United States is losing its grip as the world’s top economic power.
Forbes On Corp Tax Reform, Small Business Wants In For corporate tax reform to benefit U.S. businesses, it will have to shift focus to include small businesses, experts say. If multinationals are guaranteed a lower tax rate from the progressive, statutory corporate income tax rate of 35% in exchange for closing tax credits, then small businesses that have enough revenue will either rush to […]
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Mass Live Sports helps Muslim athletes cope with fallout from 9/11 Led by pioneers such as Muhammad Ali and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Muslims athletes have helped introduce their faith to mainstream America. After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, sports again helped break down some of the barriers and that surfaced in the wake of the deadly hijackings.