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Small Businesses Want Minimum Wage Increase
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by: Holly Sklar
If Congress actually listened to small business owners, the minimum wage would be going up. Instead, July 24 will mark five years without an increase since the federal minimum wage was set at $7.25 an hour in 2009.
Small business livelihoods depend on revenue, not rhetoric. Small business owners know there's a problem when median household income is lower than it was in 2009, adjusted for inflation, but the Dow Jones stock index has soared to record highs -- nearly doubling since July 24, 2009.
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Here's One Fix for Our Imperfect Marketplace -- Paid Leave
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by: Mitch Rofsky
As a business person, there is one economics lesson I learn over and over again: The marketplace is essential but not perfect. It is not perfect in a variety of ways, but a big one is that not everyone can be a winner. I don't mean winner in the sense of Bill Gates or Warren Buffett. Rather, a winner in the sense of middle class -- with access to some discretionary income.
There are a variety of ways to lose -- and they're not all bad. The marketplace creates losers of the inefficient or passé. Or the rich who make poor investments. But some consequences are so awful, such as starvation, that we, as a society, will not accept them. -
Improving Chemical Safety: A Baby Step in the Right Direction
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by: Sean Moulton, Ronald White
In the aftermath of the explosion of a fertilizer storage facility in West, Texas last year that killed 15 people and destroyed three schools and a nursing home, federal officials realized there are serious gaps in federal oversight authority of facilities that house dangerous chemicals. In response, President Obama tasked an interagency working group with developing new guidelines for improving chemical facility safety and ensuring that some federal agency has responsibility for implementing and enforcing new safety guidelines.
On Friday, June 6, the interagency working group (comprised of the U. -
How a Fairer Tax Code Can Improve America's Infrastructure
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by: Chris Van Hollen, Sander Levin
As Congress heads home to celebrate the Fourth of July, it leaves with two critical issues unaddressed.
The first is the increasing -- and troubling -- trend of big corporations essentially giving up their American citizenship and reincorporating overseas to reduce their U.S. taxes. Despite the fact that our nation has made significant investments to enable their success -- investments like roads and bridges over which they move their products to consumers -- more and more big corporations are using a legal maneuver to avoid their fair share of taxes. These corporations will combine with a smaller foreign firm and then claim that the combined corporation is no longer American for tax purposes.
Improving FOIA
It's Time To Give College Graduates A Future With Real Freedom -- Freedom From Debt
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A Jewish Perspective on Taxes and Poverty: Calling for an Army of Angels
Ending the Taxpayer Subsidy for Exorbitant Executive Bonuses
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by: Nate Jones
by: LeeAnn Hall
by: Rabbi Menachem Creditor
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Small Businesses Want Minimum Wage Increase (by: Holly Sklar) in the Augusta Free Press
Here's One Fix for Our Imperfect Marketplace -- Paid Leave (by: Mitch Rofsky) in the The Hill
Improving Chemical Safety: A Baby Step in the Right Direction (by: Sean Moulton, Ronald White) in the The Hill
How a Fairer Tax Code Can Improve America's Infrastructure (by: Chris Van Hollen, Sander Levin) in the Madison Capital Times
Improving FOIA (by: Nate Jones) in the Battle Creek Enquirer
It's Time To Give College Graduates A Future With Real Freedom -- Freedom From Debt (by: LeeAnn Hall) in the Trenton Times
A Jewish Perspective on Taxes and Poverty: Calling for an Army of Angels (by: Rabbi Menachem Creditor) in the Crookston Daily Times
Ending the Taxpayer Subsidy for Exorbitant Executive Bonuses (by: Lloyd Doggett) in the Austin American-Statesman
A Pharmacy's Tax Tricks Could Make You Sick (by: Frank Clemente) in the Pasadena Citizen
How to Get and Keep Women's Attention and Support (by: Terry O'Neill, Don Kraus) in the AL.com
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