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Add Women, Change the Conversation
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by: Roberta Guise
With March being Women's History Month, now is the perfect time to celebrate and be guided by women thinkers whose ideas show us different ways of viewing and interacting with the world.
As it is now, only 13.5 percent of guests on the influential Sunday morning TV network talk shows are women, according to the American University's Women and Politics Institute. With total viewers across the four biggest networks each Sunday in 2010 reaching 8.3 million, it quickly becomes clear that society isn't getting the full picture, which includes women's ideas, inventions and thinking.
To start remedying this gender gap in the public square, consider these breakthrough ideas from three deep-thinking women. -
Failure to Invest in Young Children Threatens Our Economy
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by: Riane Eisler
We're being told that fiscal responsibility requires big cuts in education, nutrition, and health care for millions of children. This shortsighted and uncaring thinking is not only a nightmare for those directly affected; it is an imminent threat to America's economic future.
We have to let our policy makers know that fiscal responsibility requires caring economic policies. Here's why.
Experts agree that a nation's most important asset is what economists call "high quality human capital" -- flexible, creative, educated people who can adapt to our globalized knowledge-service economy. -
End Tax Handouts -- Why it's Time for Giant Corporations to Pay Their Fair Share
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by: Doug Pibel
When I file my tax return and look at the amount of income tax I pay, I can't help but think of those who don't pay any taxes at all. Some of them -- even though they make money during the year -- not only pay nothing but actually get money back. According to one estimate, they cost every single taxpayer $481 a year. And I, for one, am tired of carrying them.
If you agree, I'd like you to join me in working to get these deadbeats to pony up their fair share. I refer, of course, to General Electric, Boeing, Wells Fargo, and a whole list of other major corporations.
That's right: According to a recent study by Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ), in the 3-year period from 2008 through 2010, 30 Fortune 500 companies made a profit each year and yet paid zero or less in -
The Rotten Apple in the Tax Barrel
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by: Scott Klinger
Apple has gone on a very public tax strike. Months after reporting the second highest quarterly profits in U.S. history, Americas favorite company is refusing to bring home more than $60 billion of offshore funds in protest of the taxes it would have to pay.
Apple paints its predicament as unfair. Yet Apples funds did not build up offshore because its iPhones, iPads and Macs are so much more popular overseas than they are at home. Though more than two-thirds of its retail stores are in the United States and Apple sells more product in the U.S. than in any other nation, it reports to shareholders that it made 24 cents in pre-tax profit for every dollar of sales in the United States, compared to 36 cents profit on every dollar of sales abroad.
Buffett Rule Still Makes Main Street Sense
Health Care, Taxes, and Big Corporate Foxes in the Small Business Henhouse
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A Girl's World?
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Add Women, Change the Conversation (by: Roberta Guise) in the La Prensa San Diego
Failure to Invest in Young Children Threatens Our Economy (by: Riane Eisler) in the Deming Headlight
End Tax Handouts -- Why it's Time for Giant Corporations to Pay Their Fair Share (by: Doug Pibel) in the Augusta Free Press
The Rotten Apple in the Tax Barrel (by: Scott Klinger) in the The Sun
Buffett Rule Still Makes Main Street Sense (by: Lew Prince) in the Bell Gardens Sun
Health Care, Taxes, and Big Corporate Foxes in the Small Business Henhouse (by: J. Kelly Conklin) in the The Hill
The Pentagon Budget (by: Susan Shaer) in the Bell Gardens Sun
A Girl's World? (by: Audrey Fisch) in the NJ.Com
Equality At Last? Not In Our Paychecks (by: Lisa Maatz) in the The Hill
Why Pay Equity Makes Cents/Sense (by: Janet Watkins) in the Detroit Free Press
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