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...Treasury $364 billion over the next 10 years in lost taxes on dividends alone. Tax-rate cuts scheduled for next year and 2006 would start immediately, as would a $400 increase in the tax credit per child. The proposal would also speed relief from the marriage penalty and alternative minimum tax and lift expense allowances for small businesses. Including a few other measures, the total package would remove $674 billion from federal coffers; after interest on the debt, the tab over a decade could be more than $900 billion...
...while rental stock has shrunk. According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition, which lobbies for government housing, for the fourth year in a row there isn't a single jurisdiction in the U.S., with the exception of places in Puerto Rico, where a person working full time for minimum wage can afford to rent a one-bedroom home at fair-market value...
...that." Democratic staff members are rewriting their bosses' talking points to emphasize that poorer minorities will reap little from Bush's tax cuts compared with the wealthy. Senator Ted Kennedy hopes to force Republicans to vote on civil rights--related measures like affirmative action and an increase in the minimum wage. With the White House no longer revisiting the Appeals Court nomination of Charles Pickering, a Lott favorite blocked by Democrats in 2001, Democrats are readying battles against two other Appeals Court nominees opposed by civil rights groups: Jeffrey Sutton, a pro--states' rights attorney, for the 6th Circuit...
...rural areas at first hand. Seemingly oblivious to the blazing sun, the Workers' Party leader hugged locals and stopped off in half a dozen mud homes to speak with the families living there. All the mothers he spoke with raise their children alone, on incomes far below the minimum wage. Few have the means to provide basic necessities like food, let alone pay for running water or schooling. "This is a practical demonstration of the importance of our commitment to fight inequality," said Sports Minister Agnelo Quieroz, one of those who accompanied Lula on the first...
...officials discussed greater protection for witnesses, and an amnesty for those who turn in illegal weapons. Blunkett promised a ban on carrying replica weapons and air guns in public, and to raise the allowable age for owning an air gun from 14 to 17. He also announced a new minimum five-year sentence for illegal possession of a gun, which he said "will send a clear message that serious, violent offending will invariably be dealt with in the strongest manner." At the emotionally charged Brixton meeting, Clarence Thompson, who arrived in Britain from the Caribbean 40 years ago, said five...