By Denizhan Duran - Although 75% of published evaluations on conditional cash transfer programs (CCT) are sourced from Latin America, newer CCT programs in Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malawi, Pakistan, Tanzania and Nigeria are beginning to document, analyze and report results. This week, the World Bank brought a distinguished group together to discuss new findings, evaluation approaches and policy [...]
: skip to main skip to sidebar Kopsa Otte Agriculture Blog Kopsa Otte CPAs Advisors have been involved in Income Tax Planning , Estate Planning Succession Planning for over 30 years . For more information about Kopsa Otte services , please contact us via e-mail at lkopsa kopsaotte.com or call 800-975-4829. Wednesday , October 26, 2011 SOCIAL SECURITY WAGE BASE INCREASES Social Security wage base increases to 110,100 for 2012 For those of you that are budgeting , the IRS has released the new base for Social Security tax . If you are at max this will mean an additional 205 tax 3,300 x 062 For self employed double that . The Social Security Administration has announced that the wage base for computing the Social Security tax OASDI in 2012 increases to 110,100 from 106,800, which was the wage: skip to main skip to sidebar Kopsa Otte Agriculture Blog Kopsa Otte CPAs Advisors have been involved in Income Tax Planning , Estate Planning Succession Planning for over 30 years . For more information about Kopsa Otte services , please contact us via e-mail at lkopsa kopsaotte.com or call 800-975-4829. Tuesday , October 25, 2011 LOWER YOUTH WORK AGE OF FARMS NTV , Kearney Nebraska.TV reports that many farmers in Nebraska are concerned about a proposed rewrite from the Department of Labor prohibiting teens under 16 from performing farm duties . According to the story , some of those restrictions would prohibit younger workers from stacking bales of hay more than six feet , caring for livestock , and operating almost most all power equipment . November 1st is the comment deadline set by
By Amanda Glassman - This is a joint post with Tom Bollyky News this month that an experimental vaccine cuts in half the risk of malaria in children in Africa is a welcome success story 20+ years in the making. It’s also a rare bright spot in the clinical trials labyrinth that stands between promising new medicines, vaccines, and [...]
On October 4, the Just Label It – We Have a Right to Know campaign submitted a petition to the FDA demanding the mandatory labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The petition was signed by millions of consumers, and almost 400 … Continue reading →
By Todd Moss - Earlier this year, Ben Leo (who recently joined our friends at the One Campaign as their new Global Policy Director) and I projected IDA graduations out to 2025 as an exercise to think through what the World Bank’s soft loan window might look like in the near future (full working paper is here). Everyone knows [...]
By William Savedoff - … where’s the action? The World Bank has said all the right things about putting its substantial influence behind sensible programs that generate revenue, cut health costs and save lives. So far, however, it has done little on a simple measure that would cost-effectively achieve all three of these goals: raising tobacco taxes. The World [...]
: skip to main skip to sidebar Kopsa Otte Agriculture Blog Kopsa Otte CPAs Advisors have been involved in Income Tax Planning , Estate Planning Succession Planning for over 30 years . For more information about Kopsa Otte services , please contact us via e-mail at lkopsa kopsaotte.com or call 800-975-4829. Wednesday , October 12, 2011 STATE AND LOCAL SALES TAX COLLECTIONS Did you ever wonder how your state compares with others The Tax Foundation has an interactive map showing . collections This map shows per capita state and local sales tax collections . Wyoming comes in highest at 2,303 per person at the other end are Oregon , Montana , Delaware , and New Hampshire , which lack a sales tax at any level . To check out the MAP Posted by Legal : Disclaimer at 10:30 AM Newer Post Older Post
: skip to main skip to sidebar Kopsa Otte Agriculture Blog Kopsa Otte CPAs Advisors have been involved in Income Tax Planning , Estate Planning Succession Planning for over 30 years . For more information about Kopsa Otte services , please contact us via e-mail at lkopsa kopsaotte.com or call 800-975-4829. Saturday , October 8, 2011 BUDGET WOES TO HIT FARM BILL' Grand Island Independent TheIndependent.com reports that Congress is preparing the groundwork for a new Farm Bill next year , but U.S . Sen . Mike Johanns , R-Neb . said the ongoing budget problems facing the nation will impact the next Farm Bill . According to the story , Sen . Johanns recently said , the annual cost of commodity programs has decreased from nearly 30 billion in 2000 to 10 billion in 2009. But one crop program ,
By Kimberly Ann Elliott - After years of delay, three U.S. trade agreements are finally down to the wire. President Obama has sent Congress legislation to implement long-delayed free trade agreements with Colombia, Korea, and Panama. Congress is expected to vote on all three agreements, and an extension of the Trade Adjustment Assistance program for workers displaced due to trade, [...]
By Nancy Birdsall - I was delighted to learn this morning that the Nobel Committee awarded this year’s peace prize to not one but three highly effective female leaders: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, activist Leymah Gbowee of Liberia and rights activist Tawakkul Karman of Yemen. Among the three recipients, I’m proud to have had the opportunity to get [...]
By Nancy Birdsall - A recent Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) report on U.S. trade policy is refreshing. (Full disclosure: I was a member of the thoroughly bipartisan Task Force behind the report—chaired by Andrew Card and Tom Daschle—so you can take my reaction to it with a grain of salt.) What is also refreshing is that there is [...]By Todd Moss - Back in June 2010 a burst of media reported that US geological surveys in Afghanistan revealed vast mineral and oil deposits in the poor war-torn country. This of course only confirmed the suspicions of some who just knew that U.S. military action in Afghanistan was really an imperialist asset grab. Ah ha! But now we [...]
Renewable energy has passed an important milestone. In the recent Monthly Energy Review by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, domestic production of renewable forms of energy have now surpassed nuclear power and is closing in on oil. read moreBy Amanda Glassman - This blog is co-authored with Vicky Hausman, Dalberg Global Development Advisors. These days it seems like everyone is going mobile. The idea of using mobile phones to deliver health care products, treatments and services has captured the imaginations of everyone from academic experts, government officials and funders of aid to technology companies, innovators and entrepreneurs. [...]
By Michael Clemens - If a researcher wants to call her work science, others must be able to reproduce her results. This “replicability” is at the core of scientific inquiry. Replicability is what turns one person’s experience into a resource for humanity, what moves an anecdote toward a fact. But much new social and economic research—based on the recent [...]