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...Many experts predict that given the complex interdependence of the Big Three and the network of small companies that supply them, a bankruptcy of even one could lead to a ripple effect that could jeopardize as many as 2.5 million jobs. Now the fate of those jobs, and the already tanking economy, are in the hands of a lame-duck President whom most Americans blame for the country's current woes...
...with encouraging administrators to implement the recommendations. Both the Flores and Schwartz platforms also discuss January term plans. No formal plans have yet been announced for this period which will fall between the end of winter break and the beginning of the second semester after the calendar change takes effect next year. —Staff writer Chelsea L. Shover can be reached at cshover@fas.harvard.edu...
FICA is, in effect, a tax on job creation. It applies to the very first dollar earned by a minimum-wage worker, but most of it tops out at an annual income of about $100,000 and doesn't apply at all to income from investments. For most Americans holding jobs, FICA now takes a bigger chunk of their income than the income tax itself. And yet it rarely enjoys the tender concern of tax-cutting Republicans, who prefer to concentrate on tax breaks for capital gains. Cutting the FICA tax in half, for workers and for employers, would make...
While it is very important to help set College priorities, it is unclear what role students will have in keeping a focus on the undergraduate experience in light of fiscal challenges. A major criticism of the UC is its inability to effect change via the bureaucratic channels of University Hall. While this is a fair critique that likely won’t be remedied until the implementation of Dowling II’s Report on College Governance, the perception that we are therefore incapable of improving student life is both defeatist and false. As the sole arbiter...
...again unleashed to bludgeon Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) into backing out of a presidential runoff vote. Yet when Zimbabweans protest, with backing by world leaders, at its government's refusal to be voted out - the normal channels of democratic process - that action has little or no effect on Mugabe's political calculations...