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...effectively rises to 33% for a while and then drops back to 28%. Don't misunderstand. I love paying just 28%. (And at 28%, I pay a heck of a lot more than I ever did when the top rate was higher, because, far from trying anything stupid to shelter my income from taxes, I'm quite happy to send the Government its share.) But keeping the top rate at 33% instead of dropping it back to 28%, it seems to me, would not be perceived by most high earners as terribly unfair or unbearable. It would raise upwards...
...Cambridge shelter, which will admit homeless women from 7 p.m. until 7 a.m., will be open from November 15 through May 5, according to James Stewart, a local advocate for the homeless...
...This will make it possible for those Cambridge residents who can't be served in the existing system to have shelter at least for the winter," Stewart said...
Homeless women, many of whom have been victimized by men, cars, only feel secure in single-sex shelters, said Stewart. "Ninety-nine percent of the women on the street have been abused, so it's really important to have a safe shelter where they can feel comfortable," he said...
With approximately 500 homeless people in Cambridge by the activists' estimate, and only 120 beds available, hundreds are still without shelter every night, Stewart said. That estimate is up from 300 last winter. "Every year more and more people are put out on the street; so it's a mounting crisis," he said...