By Raphael Tsavkko Garcia On October 4, 2012 hundreds of students and activists met at the Montevideo Plaza and in the Glênio Peres Square in Porto Alegre, to protest against what they called the privatization of public space [1]. They protested against the banning of use of that square by street performers and by the […]
Investors Beware: New Tax Laws Could Cost You
While most people are busy eyeing the Presidential election, there is another critical element to which investors and others should be taking notice – the new tax laws that will go into effect immediately following the New Year. These new tax laws will impact everyone from the largest investors down to those struggling to find […]
Oklahoma City Recycles Bridge Beams to Save County Bridges
By Jill Harrison In Oklahoma City, at the intersection of three major interstates, lies a four-mile stretch of highway known as the Crosstown. The Crosstown was built in 1966 and is the convergence point for I-35, I-44 and I-40. It was designed to carry up to 76,000 vehicles daily in three lanes each direction, partially […]
Distressed Public Supports Daring Dictate On Toll Booth
A daring order by one of the most popular politician in the Indian state of Maharashtra drew huge public support on Tuesday as toll booths across the state remain closed. The people of the state stopped paying mandatory tax which was levied in lieu of the construction costs of the public roads and highways. Raj […]
NEITHER RICH NOR POOR – IT’S MIDDLE CLASSES SUFFER IN WELFARE STATES
Welfare State concept has gone long back all over the world. Even if some largest Democracies in the world claim that they are Welfare States by showing some of their policies in health care, insurance, educational scholarships, unemployment benefits, old age pensions, public housing, subsidized prices of a few consumables, public health programmes, they are […]
Economic Myths: We Separate Fact From Fiction
by Michael Grabell, ProPublica With the recent Iowa straw poll [1] and President Obama’s bus tour [2], Americans are hearing a cacophony of arguments about the wobbly economy. The federal stimulus package passed in 2009 was either a deficit-busting failure full of wasteful projects or an unparalleled rescue that would have been more successful if […]
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