The Occupy Wall Street movement passes the one-month mark today, and has also reached another milestone–the once fledgling movement has raised $300,000 in donations, according to the Associated Press. Saturday was perhaps the biggest day yet for the protests over income inequality and corporate influence on politics. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world
Continue reading …The Occupy Wall Street movement passes the one-month mark today, and has also reached another milestone–the once fledgling movement has raised $300,000 in donations, according to the Associated Press. Saturday was perhaps the biggest day yet for the protests over income inequality and corporate influence on politics. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world
Continue reading …A Moldovan student on a State Department foreign exchange program wrote the department a pleading e-mail complaining of the working conditions at a Hershey packing factory, The New York Times’ Julia Preston reports. “Pleas hellp,” Tudor Ureche, a college student who was participating in the U.S. government’s J-1 visa program, wrote in the email. He added that
Continue reading …According to Gallup, a record 50 percent of Americans now support legalizing marijuana, up from only 12 percent in 1969, the first time Gallup polled on the issue. Not surprisingly, support for legalization is highest among liberals and young people, while only 31 percent of people over 65 say pot should be legalized. Sixteen states
Continue reading …Under Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan, the managers of private equity funds–one of the most lucrative financial structures on Wall Street–would pay, on average, an income tax rate of just around 6 percent. That’s less than the 9 percent rate most workers would pay, and it’s a huge dropoff from the best assessment of the
Continue reading …Under Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan, the managers of private equity funds–one of the most lucrative financial structures on Wall Street–would pay, on average, an income tax rate of just around 6 percent. That’s less than the 9 percent rate most workers would pay, and it’s a huge dropoff from the best assessment of the
Continue reading …The number of corruption-related investigations of U.S. Customs officials has more than tripled since 2006, the Los Angeles Times reports. Sources told the paper that since the Customs force on the border has expanded so rapidly in the past five years, authorities have been more lenient about red flags that suggest applicants for Customs jobs
Continue reading …The number of corruption-related investigations of U.S. Customs officials has more than tripled since 2006, the Los Angeles Times reports. Sources told the paper that since the Customs force on the border has expanded so rapidly in the past five years, authorities have been more lenient about red flags that suggest applicants for Customs jobs
Continue reading …In response to the Occupy Wall Street protests, some leading conservatives have begun referring to themselves as “the 53 percent”–a reference to their view that the 47 percent of mostly lower-income Americans who don’t pay income taxes are getting an undeserved break. Conservatives also argued against closing tax loopholes for the richest Americans and for
Continue reading …In response to the Occupy Wall Street protests, some leading conservatives have begun referring to themselves as “the 53 percent”–a reference to their view that the 47 percent of mostly lower-income Americans who don’t pay income taxes are getting an undeserved break. Conservatives also argued against closing tax loopholes for the richest Americans and for
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