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Apple Tax Dodging Highlights Need for Reform
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by: Frank Clemente
Talk about taking your business to "the Cloud." In an ingenious effort to avoid billions of dollars in taxes, Apple, Inc., has been levitating subsidiaries between American and Irish soil, claiming that from a tax-law perspective, they exist in neither country and so are subject to neither country's taxing authority. And, sadly, the scheme has worked: no taxes have been paid to the U.S., a relatively paltry sum was paid to Ireland.
Though this was Apple's most audacious tax-dodging scheme, it wasn't the only one.
Congressional investigators recently found that Apple had avoided paying virtually any taxes on $74 billion in offshore profits over the past four years. -
Continued Losses of Open Space Can Adversely Affect Rural Economies
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by: Norman Dicks, Lynn Scarlett
Each year, an estimated 2 million acres of America's farms, ranches, forests, wildlife habitat, and other open spaces are fragmented into smaller parcels or lost to development, according to the President's Annual Economic Report to Congress. Continued losses of this open space can adversely affect rural economies. These losses reduce opportunities for hunting, fishing, and other outdoor recreation and impact wildlife, water, and other resources.
The good news is there are ways for both landowners and Congress to slow down this troubling trend.
Donating a permanent conservation easement (development restriction) to a qualified organization, such as a land trust, enables farmers and ranchers to maintain their current operations and conserve the natural as -
Equal Pay Act Anniversary
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by: Donna Hendel
At our recent state convention, several members of the American Association of University Women of Minnesota had a discussion about Lilly Ledbetter's book, Grace and Grit: My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond. Ledbetter worked for Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in Gadsen, Ala. She had grown up in Possum Trot, Ala., and had worked in the cotton fields as soon as she was old enough. She knew that a good day's work resulted in a good day's pay and knew that boys and girls in the fields received the same pay. She assumed that was how the job market worked.
When she was ready to enter the job market, she landed a dream job with Goodyear. -
It's Time to Close the Gender Pay Gap
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by: Joanna Amberger
For many people in my generation, it may come as shock to learn that women continue to face work-force discrimination in the form of lower wages. We don't like to talk about money, so it takes a research report like the American Association of University Women's The Simple Truth About the Gender Pay Gap (2013) to reveal that, even 50 years after the Equal Pay Act was signed into law, the women in Hawaii on average can expect to be paid only 82 percent of what their male colleagues are paid.
The gender pay gap is personal. For my own profession, I've chosen one of the hardest old boys' clubs to try to break into: finance.
Equal Pay Act Anniversary Renews Push for Law's Promise
Equal Pay Day Anniversary
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Contraception for All: The Promise of the Griswold Decision Is on the Verge of Fulfillment
What You Don't Know Can Hurt You: Are Dangerous Chemicals Stored Near You?
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by: Lisa Maatz
by: Maureen Dwyer
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Apple Tax Dodging Highlights Need for Reform (by: Frank Clemente) in the NJ Today
Continued Losses of Open Space Can Adversely Affect Rural Economies (by: Norman Dicks, Lynn Scarlett) in the Battle Creek Enquirer
Equal Pay Act Anniversary (by: Donna Hendel) in the Faribault Daily News
It's Time to Close the Gender Pay Gap (by: Joanna Amberger) in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Equal Pay Act Anniversary Renews Push for Law's Promise (by: Lisa Maatz) in the Battle Creek Enquirer
Equal Pay Day Anniversary (by: Maureen Dwyer) in the Petersburg Progress-Index
Contraception for All: The Promise of the Griswold Decision Is on the Verge of Fulfillment (by: Clare Coleman) in the Berthoud Recorder
What You Don't Know Can Hurt You: Are Dangerous Chemicals Stored Near You? (by: Sean Moulton, Sofia Plagakis) in the Tomball Potpourri
Let's Not Sacrifice Our Privacy on the Altar of Cyber Security (by: Steve Macek) in the Columbus Dispatch
Protect Family Farmers by Responding to the Census of Agriculture (by: Ralph Paige , Rudy Arredondo, Zachary Ducheneaux) in the Before It's News
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