“Smooth Slide to the Floor” for Lower Wage Workers Facing Obamacare

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New Orleans    Talking to a senior labor relations director for a health care company yesterday where our union was a terribly cold shower of reality.  This company has 45,000 employees with 34,000 hourly, direct care staff similar to what we represent.  We asked him how they were looking at the Americans Affordable Care Act …

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The Company They Keep: Tax Tit Deductions, the Right, & Big Whine Charities

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New Orleans    So you might ask in all of the hoopla as the USA went over the fiscal cliff, what happened to the charitable deductions that I have written about several times? Well, there were some modest changes because some ceilings were place on the value of personal exemptions and itemized deductions for high-income tax filers …

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