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...many people will have to pay it this year? About 3.5 million households, 57% of which earn between $200,000 and $500,000, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. Their tax bills will be an average of $4,599 more than they would be using the regular tax code...
...developed her business, Deale was passionate about improving the Zulu women's living standards. Many of the women she employs were skilled artisans with limited markets for their wares. Others, who were unskilled, received training. The extra earnings have helped them, as sole breadwinners, support their families better and raise money for medicine for close relatives with AIDS. (Deale says according to two of her suppliers, at least half of their workers have family members who suffer from or have died of the disease.) What's more, the crafts work allows the women to stay at home, where they...
Those start-up difficulties have been smoothed out, and because Lewis' embroiderers earn more than they would get at a factory, the enterprise attracts the best talent. The workers also are paid a monthly bonus of around 8% and a larger one at the Vietnamese New Year, roughly equal to two-thirds of their monthly salary. Each year the designer takes the 120 sewers in Ho Chi Minh City on an all-expenses-paid weekend vacation...
Business-school rankings often address how much graduates earn. But two nonprofits, the World Resources Institute and the Aspen Institute, assess M.B.A. programs by their commitment to social responsibility instead. Here are some of the progressive schools that ranked highest this year. See beyondgreypinstripes.org for the full list...
...most ambitious movie to date, opened nationwide in late November and has received favorable reviews and plenty of buzz. Based on the book See No Evil by former cia operative Robert Baer, the film looks at the danger of U.S. reliance on Middle Eastern oil. The film may earn back its investment. But Skoll cares even more about its spurring a serious discussion on alternative energy. In partnership with the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club and Terra Pass, Skoll asks viewers to lobby Congress for more investments in renewable energy and presents ways to reduce oil dependence. With...