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  • Palestine or Money ?
    5 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    October 31, 2004 _ (The Times)
    Fading Arafat fights to keep hold of $1billion war chest Uzi Mahnaimi, Ramallah and Matthew Campbell, Paris
    IN THE END it came down to money. While fighting for his life in a French military hospital, Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, was engaged in another, secret battle last week as he tried to keep control of bank accounts that are central to his survival in power.
    Arafat’s godfather-like sway over his people derives less these days from his (…)

  • Post-Election Sticker Shock
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    It’s not too soon to talk about the problems the winner of Tuesday’s election will face. One of the biggest is the hemorrhaging cost of the war in Iraq.
    The Bush administration, which got an early $25 billion down payment for the new fiscal year with the certainty of asking for more, has left the 2005 war budget’s bottom line conveniently blank until after the voters have spoken. But the estimates already circulating say that the president will have to ask for as much as $70 billion more (…)

  • Less Cash in Their Pockets Trends in Incomes, Wages, Taxes, and Health Spending of Middle-Income Families, 2000-03
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Lawrence Mishel, Michael Ettlinger, and Elise Gould
    The economic well-being of middle-income families has changed significantly over the last few years, largely as a result of three important dynamics. First, the recession that started in March 2001 was followed by an unusually long period-two and a half years-of job losses, despite an increase in output of goods and services. Although employment has grown since September 2003, it has not done so at a sufficient rate to diminish the (…)

  • NAACP says IRS review spurred by politics
    30 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Speech by Bond preceded look at tax-exempt status
    By Genero C. Armas
    WASHINGTON — The NAACP’s chairman says the group’s tax-exempt status is under review by the government in an investigation he contends stems from a speech he gave that criticized President Bush.
    The head of the Internal Revenue Service did not confirm that his agency was investigating the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization, but he strongly rejected the idea the agency would conduct an audit for (…)

  • Other things Iraq war funding can pay for
    3 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Congress and President Bush have so far provided $119.4 billion for the war in Iraq. Here are examples of what else that money could buy. It could send 748,495 people, nearly everyone in Jacksonville, Fla., to Harvard University for four years. Based on Harvard’s 2004-05 school year costing $39,880 for tuition, fees, room and board, multiplied by four. Or send 2,806,506 people — almost all the residents of Chicago — to the average-priced public university for four years, based on The (…)