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Protect Family Farmers by Responding to the Census of Agriculture
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by: Ralph Paige , Rudy Arredondo, Zachary Ducheneaux
We represent thousands of African American, Hispanic and Native American farmers in the United States and we recognize the importance of as many of our farmers being counted in the agriculture census. It's with information from the census that the nation learns about the importance of the work we do. This is why we are appealing to everyone who as not yet sent in their census form to please do so. There is still time.
In fact, the Census of Agriculture, taken every five years, is a count of U.S. farms and ranches and the people who operate them. It looks at land use and ownership, operator characteristics, production practices, income and expenditure. -
Tax Fairness: We Need a 'Plan B'
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by: Richard Trumka
Most voters agree that big corporations and the wealthy should start paying their fair share in taxes. But of course big corporations and the wealthy don't want to do that. They want to pay less, and they are used to getting their way. So what do you do?
Some people in Washington think the answer is a "Grand Bargain." In a "Grand Bargain," Republicans agree to stop protecting millionaires from having to pay a single penny more in taxes. In return, Democrats agree to cut Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare benefits.
That doesn't sound like a bargain to me. -
Gina McCarthy -- A Business-Friendly Choice for the EPA
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by: Richard Eidlin
It is one of the great myths of our political debate that we must choose between economic growth and environmental protection. Gina McCarthy, President Obama's nominee to head up the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has spent her career proving this a false choice.
McCarthy has been an advocate for crafting solutions to environmental challenges, while simultaneously increasing market certainties and creating opportunities. For the business community, certainty translates into confidence, and confidence leads to more investment, more jobs and more robust growth.
Created in 1970 by President Nixon, the EPA has to balance the nation's allegiance to individual rights with its equally cherished commitment to protecting the environment commons. -
Small Businesses Across Political Spectrum Say Raise Minimum Wage
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by: Holly Sklar
Do you think a national poll of small business owners would show majority support for increasing the minimum wage? How about a poll in which the small business owners were predominately Republican?
Well, 67 percent of small business owners support increasing the federal minimum wage and adjusting it yearly to keep up with the cost of living, a new poll shows. Forty-six percent of respondents identified themselves as Republican, 35 percent as Democrat and 11 percent as independent. The nationally representative opinion survey of small business owners was conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research and released by Small Business Majority.
Federal Spending: Let the Sunshine In
Toward Death With Dignity
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Earth Day Lessons
A Tax Day Message
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by: Katherine McFate
by: Barbara Coombs Lee
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Protect Family Farmers by Responding to the Census of Agriculture (by: Ralph Paige , Rudy Arredondo, Zachary Ducheneaux) in the Before It's News
Tax Fairness: We Need a 'Plan B' (by: Richard Trumka) in the Augusta Free Press
Gina McCarthy -- A Business-Friendly Choice for the EPA (by: Richard Eidlin) in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Small Businesses Across Political Spectrum Say Raise Minimum Wage (by: Holly Sklar) in the Kane Republican
Federal Spending: Let the Sunshine In (by: Katherine McFate) in the Jamestown Post-Journal
Toward Death With Dignity (by: Barbara Coombs Lee) in the Buffalo News
Earth Day Lessons (by: Kathleen Rogers) in the Caribbean Life
A Tax Day Message (by: Sandy Pappas) in the Galion Inquirer
Women Are Tired of Waiting for Equal Pay (by: Lisa Maatz) in the New Bedford Standard-Times
Forget Me Not (by: Rochelle Lefkowitz) in the Augusta Free Press
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