Under the new incentives available starting a year from now, manufacturing and biotech companies anywhere in the state would be eligible for sales-tax exemptions on the purchase of manufacturing equipment. Companies also could get hiring credits if they are located in census tracts with the highest rates of poverty and unemployment. There also would be tax credits to attract and retain businesses.
Ask yourself; do things go better with Koch? Ah, as one of those in the know, you cannot be fooled. Even in a blind taste test you would know the difference between Coke, as in Coca-Cola, and Koch as in the billionaire brothers who want to end [...]
Jeff Bezos. (Los Angeles Times) By Lee Fang | Originally Published at The Nation. August 6, 2013 As news broke yesterday that Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos has dipped into his personal fortune to buy The Washington Post and several Post-related media properties, there has [...]
Philly Schools Consider Suing Wall Street Banks For Fraud-Induced Losses By Daniel Denvir | Originally Published at City Paper. August 5, 2013 The School District of Philadelphia is considering filing suit against Wall Street banks, City Paper has learned, for illegally manipulating a major interest-rate index underpinning [...]
By Jessica Shiller | Learning on the Edge July 29, 2013 | Students stage a sit-in at Williams Elementary (Credit: OccupyCPS) The battles over school closings have been fierce nationwide. In Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Detroit, Baltimore, and Los Angeles, announcements of public school closings have been [...]
Photograph; Students during a meeting at the guidance office at Akins High School in Austin, Texas, April 4, 2013. (Photo: Ben Sklar / The New York Times) By Peter Dreier, Truthout | Originally Published at TruthOut. Monday, 08 July 2013 15:26 Ever since the emergence of talking [...]
(Image via Merriam-Webster Inc.) We each have a personal dictionary that we carry around with us, in our heads. While we may open the pages and share a lexeme and definition with others, these persons tend to be our most trusted friends. Only they know us at [...]
By Rebecca Strauss | Originally Published at The New York Times June 16, 2013 Averages can be misleading. The familiar, one-dimensional story told about American education is that it was once the best system in the world but that now it’s headed down the drain, with piles [...]
Download the fuller report; The School Voucher Crisis. A Position Paper From the Center of Inquiry Office of Public Policy. October 2012 Consider the recent news. In North Carolina headlines read, Private school vouchers at center of House budget debate. In Wisconsin schools chief blasts voucher expansion [...]
