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Immigration reform and entitlement reform go together
I was born in 1946, just when the boomer wave began. Bill Clinton was born that year, too. So was George W. Bush, as was Laura Bush. And then the next year, Hillary Rodham. And soon Newt Gingrich (known as "Newty" as a boy). And, also in 1946, Cher....
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Medicare, Employment, Government Health Care, George W. Bush
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Harford council to consider $100,000 loan for Kohl's e-commerce center
A loan for Kohl's Department Stores is being considered by the Harford County Council to help the company to make improvements to its e-commerce distribution, or fulfillment, center in Edgewood. The conditional loan from the Maryland Department of...Tags: Walmart, Employment, Economic Policy, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development
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Mayor calls for trash pickup fee, 10 percent cut in city workforce
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake called Monday for "bold reforms" to fix a looming financial shortfall, including requiring more city workers to contribute to their retirement fund, charging residents for trash collection, asking firefighters to work longer...
Tags: Pension and Welfare, William H. Cole IV, Douglas F. Gansler, Interior Policy, James B. Kraft
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Prepared text of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's State of the City Address 2013
Mr. President, Madam Comptroller, Senators and Delegates, members of the City Council, clergy, colleagues in public service, committed people of Baltimore—thank you for the opportunity to report on the progress of our city and to renew our...
Tags: Safety of Citizens, Credit Ratings, Students, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Personal Weapon Control
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Baltimore's road to financial victory
The confetti from Tuesday's Super Bowl parade was hardly cleared before Baltimore's fiscal health jolted everyone back to reality. Warning of impending "financial ruin," a new report from the advisory firm Public Financial Management tallied Baltimore's...
Tags: Pension and Welfare, Interior Policy, Finance, Business, Taxation
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Reactions mixed to Postal Service's decision to stop Saturday delivery
Word that the cash-strapped Postal Service would stop delivering mail on Saturdays hit Lakesha Johnson hard. "I think that's terrible," the Baltimore woman said Wednesday outside the city's Main Post Office on East Fayette Street. "When they want to...
Tags: Darrell E Issa, CNBC (tv network), Parties and Movements, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Finance
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Kamenetz proposal would change process for worker benefit disputes
Baltimore County labor leaders plan to fight legislation by County Executive Kevin Kamenetz that would change the way public workers appeal county decisions on their retirement benefits, saying the bill would stack the deck against employees. The bill,...
Tags: Catonsville, Justice System, Towson, Kevin Kamenetz, AFSCME
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Tax tips just in time for the launch of filing season
Tax season officially kicks off Wednesday, later than usual because lawmakers only this month passed legislation to address expired tax cuts. The IRS needed time to update its forms and systems. Not a problem for procrastinators, but a problem for...
Tags: Interior Policy, Thomson Corporation, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Congress, Personal Data Collection
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Hudson's Corner: 'Tis the season for holiday mishaps and malfunctions
'Tis the season of light and joy. 'Tis also the season when mishaps and malfunctions are more noticeable. This year it began right before Thanksgiving. The night before Thanksgiving, five burglaries and three larcenies took place in the neighborhood,...Tags: Thanksgiving, Social Security, Roland Park, Verizon Communications, Holidays
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Do Congress and the president have the will to fix the broken pension system?
Blaming CEOs for the current pension crises may address Scott Klinger's need to engage in class warfare rhetoric, but it does not address the root causes for the funding deficit facing private pensions ("Fix the debt? Fix private pension's first," Dec....Tags: Pension and Welfare, Interior Policy, Finance, U.S. Congress, Social Security
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Fix the debt? How about fixing private pensions first
While America's CEOs are fretting about the government's so-called "fiscal cliff," millions of American workers face a financial disaster that gets much less media attention. There's a half-trillion-dollar deficit in the nation's worker retirement...Tags: Pension and Welfare, Interior Policy, Medicare, Fiscal Cliff, Government Health Care
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Taxes on Social Security should be indexed to inflation
Congress and President Obama have set the inheritance tax trigger at $5 million and indexed it to inflation. They also indexed the alternate minimum tax to inflation. This legislation limits some of the penalty on those who have achieved wealth that...Tags: Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, Social Security
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