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May 23, 2013

Blog.OurFuture.org

  • Progressive Breakfast

    MORNING MESSAGE: Apple Pie is American, But Apple Computer Isn’t OurFuture. Org’s Richard Eskow: “We should treat Apple and other formerly American multinationals as neutral entities with whom we can cooperate at times for our mutual benefit.

  • The Forces Driving America’s Education Spring

    Anyone who thinks education is the “civil rights issue of our time”  needs to look at what’s going on in Chicago.

  • Apple Pie is American, But Apple Computer Isn’t. Not Anymore.

    Did you know that Apple Computer has become a foreign entity? Did you know that it’s more Irish than anything else, at least as far as taxes are concerned? Or that it pays very little in income tax, even though its products wouldn’t exist if it not for U.

  • Double Trouble: Get Ready For The Next IRS “Scandal”

    Yes, they're already on it. I wrote about this building pseudo-scandal the other day, and it appears it's gaining steam.

  • Let’s Tell Multinational Corporations To Just Pay Their Taxes

    At yesterday’s Senate hearing the CEO of Apple said they follow the law when they “defer” billions and billions of dollars in taxes they owe by keeping profits “out of the country.


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Don’t Break Out the Bubbly Yet: 20 Million Americans Still Need Jobs

February’s unemployment numbers were better than the average job creation for the previous three months. The new jobs figures -- an additional 236,000 jobs in February with unemployment edging down to 7.7 percent -- reveal an economy that keeps chugging along against rising headwinds. But don’t break out the bubbly. We are still in a debilitating jobs recession. There are still more than 20 million people in need of full-time work.

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