On November 3rd, 50 farmers and local food advocates from across the country traveled to Washington DC to meet with their Congressional members to advocate for the recently introduced Local Farms, Food, and Jobs Act. NSAC hosted the Local Farm and Food “Fly-in” at a critical juncture for agriculture policy, as the 2012 Farm Bill Read the Rest...
By Amanda Glassman - This is a joint post with Denizhan Duran. Two months ago, we set out to create an index that measures the quality of health aid. Here’s why: First, with the approaching 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, aid quality is becoming an important topic of discussion. The recently released results of the [...]
By Nandini Oomman - This is a joint post with Amanda Glassman Chris Elias, President & CEO at PATH, will step down from his current position and join the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) as President for global DEVELOPMENT in February 2012. Yes, that’s global development, not global health. First reactions from many in global health lamented the [...]
By Todd Moss - This is a joint post with Stephanie Majerowicz Nigeria, perhaps the world’s poster child for the oil curse, is the latest country to deploy a sovereign wealth fund as a tool to try to better manage national income. At the same time, Nigeria is struggling with depleted savings and growing fiscal concerns, even in a [...]
By Kate McQueston - Like most things, ethical considerations for clinical trials can produce both positive and negative results. The positives, of course, include protecting the rights, safety, and well-being of trial participants. And the negatives? Aside from the financial costs associated with review (which can be substantial), current systems to ‘promote’ ethical considerations are often overly complicated and [...]
By Lawrence MacDonald - It’s G-20 time again, and once again the attention of the leaders of the world’s biggest economies will be largely preoccupied with shoring up the financial sectors in countries that are home to the world’s top billion. This is unfortunate but under the circumstances not entirely unreasonable. Financial crises in the rich world can have [...]
By Nancy Birdsall - For more than two years, the staff of the World Bank have been developing a new lending instrument that would link financing to measurable results within countries. If approved, it would be the third instrument at the World Bank; the two that exist now are “investment loans” under which inputs, not results, are financed; and [...]
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