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Monday, April 2, 2012
The Star’s editorial | Birthing more nonsense in Topeka and Jefferson City - KansasCity.com
The Star’s editorial | Birthing more nonsense in Topeka and Jefferson City - KansasCity.com
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Right to refuse
Rest assured, legislators in Kansas and Missouri have your conscience in mind — as long as it jibes with their thinking.
In Topeka, the House approved a bill that basically allows people to ignore local anti-discrimination ordinances under the guise of following one’s religion. If a property owner wanted to claim religious beliefs in refusing to rent to a same-sex couple, for instance, that would trump a local ordinance, such as one in Lawrence which forbids housing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation
Lance Kinzer, an Olathe Republican who sponsored the bill, named it the “Kansas Preservation of Religious Freedom Act.” The “Freedom to Discriminate Act” would be more accurate. The Senate should put a halt to this attempt to treat gay and lesbian Kansans as less-than-equal citizens.
Meanwhile, the Missouri House passed a bill that would allow health care workers to refuse to participate in procedures that violate their “conscience or principles.” That would include abortion, contraception procedures, sterilization and certain forms of stem cell research.
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/03/30/3525865/the-stars-editorial-birthing-more.html#storylink=cpy#storylink=cpy
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Right to refuse
Rest assured, legislators in Kansas and Missouri have your conscience in mind — as long as it jibes with their thinking.
In Topeka, the House approved a bill that basically allows people to ignore local anti-discrimination ordinances under the guise of following one’s religion. If a property owner wanted to claim religious beliefs in refusing to rent to a same-sex couple, for instance, that would trump a local ordinance, such as one in Lawrence which forbids housing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation
Lance Kinzer, an Olathe Republican who sponsored the bill, named it the “Kansas Preservation of Religious Freedom Act.” The “Freedom to Discriminate Act” would be more accurate. The Senate should put a halt to this attempt to treat gay and lesbian Kansans as less-than-equal citizens.
Meanwhile, the Missouri House passed a bill that would allow health care workers to refuse to participate in procedures that violate their “conscience or principles.” That would include abortion, contraception procedures, sterilization and certain forms of stem cell research.
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/03/30/3525865/the-stars-editorial-birthing-more.html#storylink=cpy#storylink=cpy
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Editorial: Why is Missouri lagging behind economically? Education
Editorial: Why is Missouri lagging behind economically? Education
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Imagine if St. Louis didn't rank 76th out of the nation's 100 largest cities in percentage of job growth since the Great Recession in 2007 to the end of last year.
Imagine if Missouri's growth in total income last year wasn't 48th in the nation.
Imagine if Missouri's college degree attainment rate was better than 34th in the nation.
Missouri has to dream. The future of our state depends on it.
The nation slowly is recovering from the recession. And while there are nuggets of good news in some statistics — Missouri's unemployment rate is declining — our recovery is slower than much of the rest of the country.
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Imagine if St. Louis didn't rank 76th out of the nation's 100 largest cities in percentage of job growth since the Great Recession in 2007 to the end of last year.
Imagine if Missouri's growth in total income last year wasn't 48th in the nation.
Imagine if Missouri's college degree attainment rate was better than 34th in the nation.
Missouri has to dream. The future of our state depends on it.
The nation slowly is recovering from the recession. And while there are nuggets of good news in some statistics — Missouri's unemployment rate is declining — our recovery is slower than much of the rest of the country.
Editorial: Not feeling the recovery? Here's why
Editorial: Not feeling the recovery? Here's why
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Matson: April 1, 2012
R.J. Matson/Post-Dispatch, April 1, 2012
If you've read about the economic recovery but you're just not feeling it, this could explain why:
In 2010, the first full year of the recovery, 93 percent of all the $288 billion in new income created nationwide went to the top 1 percent of taxpayers. Figures for 2011 won't be available until next year.
Ninety. Three. Percent. To the 1 percent of taxpayers who make $352,000 and up. Way up in some cases.
Thirty-seven percent — $106.5 billion — of the $288 billion in additional income created in 2010 accrued to the richest 0.01 percent of taxpayers, the top one-hundredth of 1 percent of American households, the 15,600 individuals or households with average incomes of $23.8 million.
Say your household is right in the middle. Half of American households earn more, half earn less. Between June 2009 and June 2011, the median household income fell 6.7 percent in inflation-related terms, to $49,909.
These data were derived from a study of American tax returns by University of California-Berkeley economist Emmanuel Saez, updating work he did previously with Thomas Picketty of the Paris School of Economics.
Reuters tax columnist David Cay Johnston has added some historical perspective. Between 1933 and 1934, as President Franklin Roosvelt's administration began responding to the Great Depression, the average income for the bottom 90 percent of wage earners increased by 8.8 percent. The average income for the super-rich, the top 0.01 percent, actually fell 3.4 percent.
But since the Reagan Revolution, under Democratic presidents and Congresses as well as Republican, government tax and financial policies have been geared to the wealthy. Mr. Saez's figures show that the top 1 percent reaped 45 percent of the economic growth in the Clinton era and 65 percent during the George W. Bush presidency. The first two years of the Obama administration, when Democrats also controlled both houses of Congress, only accelerated the trend.
Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/the-platform/editorial-not-feeling-the-recovery-here-s-why/article_9bbb750f-887c-5b1e-96c0-ea7ae33acb55.html#ixzz1qnt7h9Sa
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Matson: April 1, 2012
R.J. Matson/Post-Dispatch, April 1, 2012
If you've read about the economic recovery but you're just not feeling it, this could explain why:
In 2010, the first full year of the recovery, 93 percent of all the $288 billion in new income created nationwide went to the top 1 percent of taxpayers. Figures for 2011 won't be available until next year.
Ninety. Three. Percent. To the 1 percent of taxpayers who make $352,000 and up. Way up in some cases.
Thirty-seven percent — $106.5 billion — of the $288 billion in additional income created in 2010 accrued to the richest 0.01 percent of taxpayers, the top one-hundredth of 1 percent of American households, the 15,600 individuals or households with average incomes of $23.8 million.
Say your household is right in the middle. Half of American households earn more, half earn less. Between June 2009 and June 2011, the median household income fell 6.7 percent in inflation-related terms, to $49,909.
These data were derived from a study of American tax returns by University of California-Berkeley economist Emmanuel Saez, updating work he did previously with Thomas Picketty of the Paris School of Economics.
Reuters tax columnist David Cay Johnston has added some historical perspective. Between 1933 and 1934, as President Franklin Roosvelt's administration began responding to the Great Depression, the average income for the bottom 90 percent of wage earners increased by 8.8 percent. The average income for the super-rich, the top 0.01 percent, actually fell 3.4 percent.
But since the Reagan Revolution, under Democratic presidents and Congresses as well as Republican, government tax and financial policies have been geared to the wealthy. Mr. Saez's figures show that the top 1 percent reaped 45 percent of the economic growth in the Clinton era and 65 percent during the George W. Bush presidency. The first two years of the Obama administration, when Democrats also controlled both houses of Congress, only accelerated the trend.
Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/the-platform/editorial-not-feeling-the-recovery-here-s-why/article_9bbb750f-887c-5b1e-96c0-ea7ae33acb55.html#ixzz1qnt7h9Sa
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