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...It’s safe, this isn’t going to be used as a tool to try and deport you or determine your immigration status, or anything else—you might owe the government money. It’s safe, it’s confidential, and it’s important,” Nickels said...
...paint undocumented immigrants as guilty of anything but attempting to improve their lot. As [Senator Lindsey] Graham and [Senator Charles] Schumer wrote ... undocumented immigrants 'would be required to admit they broke the law and to pay their debt to society.' There's another case to be made: we owe a debt to them...
...Chet left ESPN in 1982 to become the founding commissioner of the short-lived United States Football League, he will forever be associated with the network he steered in its early years. My brother and I, and many other men and women, both on camera and behind the scenes, owe him our gratitude. And most important, so do sports fans...
...just the size of the debt that causes anxiety; it's whom we owe it to. Foreign governments, to which we are already beholden for the bulk of our energy, own a quarter of our debt. Now the U.S. government can't function without their aid? It's scary. Dave Hulett Malakoff, Texas...
...discount rate," which establishes how to account for future costs and benefits in today's currency. A high discount rate implies that what happens years from now should have less bearing on decisions made today. Inherent in this seemingly technical point is the question: what do we, citizens today, owe the people of tomorrow? Particularly since, once released, CO2 stays in the air for at least 100 years. (See TIME's special report about the Copenhagen Climate-Change Conference...