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...York City. Moving offshore can actually shift some categories of income to your disadvantage: turning a capital gain into ordinary income, for instance, and getting taxed at a higher rate. If you fail to report an offshore account on your taxes, you face a penalty of 75% of the underpaid tax in addition to the taxes owed...
...been told that the sheep that are put on the hills have a softer wool because they're eating a more coarse grass." The respected craft is diminishing, and Shetlanders are trying to maintain it among the younger generations by teaching it in the schools. "It's an underpaid sort of a craft," says Ina. "The young ones want to go out to work...
Like most urban public school districts, the one Belle joined in Jackson suffers overcrowded classrooms, underpaid teachers and students whose scores on the ACT, a standardized college-admissions exam, lag behind the national average (the district average last year was just 16.9 out of a total of 36 points). JROTC has helped to even the playing field. "Jackson has more unwed mothers than just about any city of its size in the nation," says state senator Robert Johnson III. "We're talking about second- and third-generation single parents. The people criticizing JROTC are not the people living in these...
...Gulf War. Because of the 10-year period of peace and economic prosperity we enjoyed after the beginning of the decade, we, in many ways took for granted our own domestic security. Base closures and cuts in defense spending prevailed throughout the 1990s, leaving the military unprepared, untrained and underpaid. Bush’s budget is not as radical when viewed through the eyes of history. It only reflects a desire for America to return to the long-term growth and internal security it has enjoyed for centuries...
...Brunio, who has worked as a maid in Hong Kong for eight years and heads the Coalition for Migrants' Rights, an umbrella group of foreign workers' organizations. On Dec. 16, the group organized a noisy march to protest the proposed wage cut. Brunio says that many maids are already underpaid?earning as little as half the legal rate?and don't even get a day off each week. "Hong Kong people know that conditions in our countries mean that we have to come here to work and give up being with our families," she says. "But instead of appreciating that...