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...July 2000. And there had been modest tax cuts and increased family payments aimed at low earners in recent years. Now it's the turn of the top end-and those who one day aspire to be like them. At the start of the decade, the 47 cent tax rate kicked in at an annual income over $A50,000; from this July, the rate will be 45 cents and the income threshold will be above $A150,000 (with only 1 in 50 taxpayers to be in the top bracket). The overall tax mechanics are such that 80% of workers will...
...www.leapfroggroup.org/cp The Leapfrog Group, a coalition of Fortune 500 companies that buy health care, has a voluntary program that rates hospitals in 28 regions of the country, covering about 50 per cent of consumers. Enter your zip code, city, or the name of the hospital and see which hospitals have fully implemented recommended quality and safety "leaps" for areas like ICU staffing and reduction of medical errors. You can also check the annual volume and outcomes of various high risk procedures, including coronary artery bypass surgery; high risk baby deliveries and neonatal ICU care. The aim: to show...
Then Polly’s sickly aunt dies of liver failure. Within days of the funeral, Polly announces her engagement to her newly widowed uncle, Boy Dougdale. The family is horror-stricken; Lady Montdore vows to cut Polly off without a cent. The repulsive Boy Dougdale—nicknamed the Lecherous Lecturer on account of the “things he does to little girls”—seems slightly shocked as well. Polly, though, is floating on a cloud of bliss...
...Guild, the Directors Guild, and other Hollywood unions. Unions are already demanding a boost in residuals members earn for iTunes downloads, and they may ask for additional money coming from the new revenues generated by streaming video ad sales. SAG says all unions combined now get a piddling two cents for each $1.99 download, with actors receiving about half of that, and the Writers Guild of America, which represents scriptwriters, says their residual amounts to less than half a cent. For its part, ABC states that its contract allows the network to pay unions for downloads based upon previously agreed...
...bastards.” And I mean that in both senses of the word. This is most harmful because it promotes the crude objectification of women. And this is only one example where a hip-hop artist is dispensing harmful lyrics. The always self-consciously provocative gangsta rappers 50 Cent and Snoop Dogg provide us with another good example. After seeing their music videos and hearing them talk about their multitude of “bitches,” it is no wonder that violence against women continues to be one of the biggest contributors to domestic violence. Gangsta...