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...wage base on which unemployment taxes are calculated, and to index that to inflation,” said Noah Berger, the executive director of the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center. The state currently taxes up to $14,000 of employee income. Margaret Monsell, an attorney at the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, voiced similar suggestions. “There’s some kind of tension between the amount of taxes paid—which is based on a fairly low number—and benefits received, which in a high wage, high cost-of-living state like Massachusetts is fairly...
...does not indicate what the money was for and whether the funded program was a continuing one. Ethlyn O’Garro, director of the Sponsored Programs Administration, could not be reached for comment yesterday. The JEHT Foundation was established in 2000 to promote criminal and juvenile justice systems reform, to advocate the international rule of law, and to advance fair and competitive elections. “It’s so disappointing to see the Madoff scandal have an effect on a group like the JEHT Foundation, which was sponsoring numerous critically important human rights initiatives...
Kagan also instituted a pass/fail grading system for first year students and implemented curricular reform...
...Gupta holds a faculty position in neurosurgery at Emory University, where he continues to perform surgery a few times a week. Gupta's limited health-policy experience includes a stint as a White House fellow in 1997, where he worked with then First Lady Hillary Clinton on health-care reform. In 2001, months before the Sept. 11 attacks, Gupta joined CNN and has since provided on-the-spot medical analysis on news events ranging from the anthrax attacks to Vice President Cheney's heart problems and the aftermath of the tsunami in Sri Lanka in 2004. In 2003 he traveled...
That said, few doubt that Obama will have an easier time selling the idea of reform that legalizes current undocumented immigrants if he can argue that the reforms would be accompanied by serious enforcement, something that never happened after the last legalization effort. "We know that one-sided reform, as we saw in 1986, cannot succeed," Napolitano said in November. "During that reform effort, the enforcement part of the equation was promised, but it didn't materialize...