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...would lose up to $1.5 billion in lost exports to countries that won't accept vaccinated animals. Still, that may not be too heavy a loss to bear in comparison to the losses of slaughtered animals and the disruption of the countryside. After all, tourism is a far bigger earner for Britain than agriculture. So the government is contemplating inoculating animals in areas surrounding points where the disease has occurred, to create a firebreak. But they first want to persuade the farmers that this is the right course of action...
...distorted definition of rich that keeps those thresholds so low. In Chicago a two-earner household in which one is a rookie cop and the other a typical schoolteacher would together earn more than $100,000 a year. There's your rich...
Even families that remain intact feel the financial pinch when one parent cuts back or quits work. Single-earner families with kids have lower needs-adjusted incomes than dual-earner families--almost $7,000 a year lower in 1997-- according to Waite and Nielsen. Proponents of at-home mothering insist, however, that staying home is more affordable than it may appear, since a second wage earner's job is accompanied by costs such as child care, transportation, restaurant meals, work clothes, cleaning bills and a higher income- tax bracket. Sheila Grillo, 34, a former sales rep who stays home with...
...bankruptcy system is subject to garnishment proceedings, to multiple collection actions, to repossession of personal property and to mortgage foreclosure. There is virtually no way to save their home and, for the family that does not own a home, no way to ever qualify to buy one." The wage earner will be "faced with what is essentially a life term in debtor's prison...
Marketed as a Valentine's Day present to tax-obsessed lovers, the bill would close the marriage gap for those who currently suffer from it by increasing the standard deduction for two-earner households and raising the payments to married couples under the Earned Income Tax Credit, a worthy program that supports the working poor. However, the bill would also move many well-off married couples from the 28-percent to the 15-percent tax bracket, regardless of whether they were affected by the marriage penalty or not. As a result, according to the research group Citizens for Tax Justice...