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 …
Tag: Benefits
Slovakians Need a Social Benefits Clawback Campaign
Banska Bystrica Several separate conversations struck me as we visited with villagers and others around central Slovakia, and both came together around the issue of social benefits, or what we would call welfare payments to out of work or otherwise financially imperiled families. On one hand, the classic, and racialized, discrimination is obvious when Slovakians …
IRS “Safe Harbor” Allowing Tax Cheating and Wage Theft
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 …