Sanctions, Starvation, and Clawbacks in England’s Universal Credit

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Bristol      The “beast of the east” weather front roaring from Siberia to the United Kingdom was collecting front page headlines as it dumped snow on southern England, trapping some people in stuck trains for 12 or more hours and worse.  Coming from Paris, I had hoped to escape the storm, but waking up early I …

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IRS “Safe Harbor” Allowing Tax Cheating and Wage Theft

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http://www.kabf.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/wadesworldnov142014.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans          It’s not news that wage theft and the problems of mis-classification of workers as independent subcontractors is rampant.  What I had not realized is how much of it was allowed directly by Congress and lax enforcement by the IRS.  You think you know the …

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