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To help make tax season easier and ensure you get every dollar you deserve back from Uncle Sam, here are the answers to the top the five most common tax questions from TurboTax.
Show your entrepreneurial side. Business owners like me are not looking for just another employee. We're looking for a partner.
When you don't land the job after an interview, it's time to look within yourself to see what mistakes you are making during those precious make-it-or die minutes with someone who can actually offer you a job.
By the Reagan era, the "culture of poverty" had become a cornerstone of conservative ideology: poverty was caused, not by low wages or a lack of jobs, but by bad attitudes and faulty lifestyles.
Homelessness is primarily a poverty issue. In 2010, nearly one-quarter (23.3 percent) of black families lived in poverty, three times the rate of white families (7.1 percent).
As opponents to same-sex marriage make headlines, lost is the fact that the real threat to the institution of marriage isn't gender. It's economics.
Youth employment is at a 60-year low. Student loan debt is approaching $1 trillion. Yet young Americans are far more optimistic about our country's future than the pundits would have you believe.
True economic growth and recovery will ultimately depend on our nation's ability to utilize our workforce effectively. That means giving all Americans the capability and the opportunity to work at their full potential.
For the justice that the Middle East wants to arrive, entrepreneurship must be at the center of plans to bolster and remake economies around the region. But what happens when the rules are rigged and existing institutions favor the already enriched?
"Please urinate into this little cup here before we begin processing your tax statement. Once you've done that, we'll be happy to process your mortgage interest deduction and give you that refund I know you've been looking forward to."
Discontent is high on both sides of the political spectrum. These are the best of times and the worst of times -- a clash between the tea party and o...
We can't allow politicians to chip away at the services that keep people fed, housed, and on the road to becoming self-sufficient. And we can't continue to see the problem of poverty as someone else's problem.
Much of the hope of the Republicans for making President Obama a one-term leader has been based around the idea of a continuing crisis economy -- the last three months of jobs reports have dashed many of those hopes.
The fastest growing category of employment is in temp work, followed by health care and "leisure" -- which is described as consisting primarily of "food service and drinking places." If it's "morning again in America," at least we know somebody's been hired to pour the coffee.
Throughout the first decade of the new century, before the recession hit, wages lagged behind living costs for the vast majority of Americans -- because the top one percent were capturing such a large share of the economy's total productivity gains. Some of this trend was the result of globalization undercutting the bargaining power of U.S. workers; some of it resulted from weakened trade unions and minimum wage laws lagging behind inflation. So when we finally climb out of this jobs recession, perhaps we can belatedly confront these deeper trends. How to do that? Unions, wage regulation, progressive taxation, and government using existing powers that it seldom exercises. But what about manufacturing? This brings me to the other Jobs of my title, the late Steve Jobs.
Something is definitely changing in America, and my heart tells me there is no going back. We are angry and ready for action. But are we angry enough?
