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...Martin isn't alone. With the unemployment rate hitting its highest level in more than a quarter-century, a growing number of the nation's jobless are striking out on their own to pay their rent and put food on the table - some doing freelance and contracting work, others launching full-blown independent businesses...
...number of spanking-new entrepreneurs surges, so is the likelihood of tax errors and even - yikes - IRS audits...
...more errors," says Jacob Gold, a CFP and author of Financial Intelligence: Getting Back to Basics After an Economic Meltdown. "The IRS will look at all of these new tax returns where people are declaring themselves as sole proprietors ... and I would not be surprised if the number of audits increased." (See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...
...announced the Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness Program, which erases big chunks of debt for medical students who do 10 years of primary-care work at clinics in communities like those the FIU students are serving. And Congress has health-care-reform companion bills pending that would boost the number of primary-care doctors by some 15,000 by subsidizing their training. Experts also insist that ways have to be found to make family-physician salaries and Medicare reimbursements more competitive...
...Whatever happens to the Goldstone report, Israeli officials are under a growing shadow of possible prosecution by advocacy groups using the courts in a number of Western countries to press for legal action over the Gaza war - so much so that some senior Israeli figures have reportedly had to factor the prospect of facing arrest into their travel plans. Some reports suggest that nearly 1,000 such lawsuits are pending, making it dangerous for prominent Israelis to travel abroad. Two weeks ago, Barak narrowly avoided arrest on a trip to the U.K. after a court ruled that he was protected...