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You Decide: How can we create jobs?
Ask just about anyone what the top economic issue is in the country today, and they will say jobs. Creating jobs is the number one priority, most think, to getting our sick economy well. It’s eas...
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You Decide: Will deficits lead to inflation?
It seems like it’s hard to get everything right with the economy. As one problem passes, others emerge. This is the way many see the current economy. With the problem of the deep recession beginni...
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You Decide: Where will the jobs be?
The biggest single issue in today’s economy is jobs or specifically – the lack of jobs. And it’s easy to understand why. Nationally, seven million jobs have been lost since the recession began, an...
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Equivocation: Dithering on drinking puts youth at risk
A specific problem that has long suffered from vast national equivocation has been one that involves the health and safety of young people: underage drinking. Curious given a concerted federal e...
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Wage Gap Threatens Economic Recovery
Economists are predicting the number of women on the national payroll will soon surpass the number of men due to the fact that 82 percent of recession-related job losses have impacted men. This n...
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Fair wages help small business
As a small business owner, I find that people expect me to grumble about the increase in the federal minimum wage to $7.25 an hour as of July 24. But I’m not grumbling. In fact, I think it should ...
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You Decide: Is tax reform in North Carolina’s future?
by Mike Walden, North Carolina
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When tax reform is mentioned, people take notice, simply because taxes take a big chunk out of our income. North Carolina has been talking about tax reform for almost two decades. Indeed, I partici...
Tips for Safe Kids Week
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Children ages five to 14 account for nearly 40 percent of all sports-related injuries in this country according to statistics from Safe Kids USA. National Safe Kids Week, April 25–May 1, marks the ...
IRS offers advice for savings
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For newlyweds: It may not be high on the wedding planning to-do list, but there are a few, simple steps that can help keep tax issues from interrupting newly-wedded bliss. Here are some practical ...
Does progress come with a cost?
by Leslie Bray Evans
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Every so often, I go back and watch that most excellent basketball movie, “Hoosiers.” I never fail to chuckle when one of the basketball players reads his social studies report entitled “Progress” ...
The case for a strong estate tax
by Brian Miller
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On New Year’s Day the estate tax, an essential part of the U.S. tax system for nearly 100 years, disappeared because Congress failed to act in December. Congressional leaders have pledged to act ...
How does Congress spend your money? Let me count the ways--Spending and the drag of stealth taxes on the economy
by Virgina Foxx, District 5, U.S. House
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In 1965 the average household sent around $11,000 in taxes (in today’s dollars) to Washington. Today that average household pays double that amount. What is behind Washington’s hunger for your mone...
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