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Daily Archives: January 1st, 2013

U.S. House passes H.R. 8, reinstating tax cuts and extending aid for the unemployed

Excerpt: By a vote of two hun­dred and fifty sev­en to one hun­dred and six­ty-sev­en, the Unit­ed States House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives has passed H.R. 8, mak­ing per­ma­nent the Bush tax cuts for those mak­ing less than $400,000 a year, extend­ing aid to the une­ployed, and delay­ing the auto­mat­ic reduc­tions to fed­er­al expen­di­tures that were set to […]
Published at:9:22 PM on Tuesday, January 1st, 2013
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Breaking News, Economic Security, Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics
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New laws for 2013, Washington State edition

Excerpt: New Year’s Day is more than just a fes­tive hol­i­day and a turn­ing point on the Gre­go­ri­an cal­en­dar. It’s also the occa­sion when many laws and admin­is­tra­tive rules go into effect, as pre­scribed by our Leg­is­la­ture. Here’s a sum­ma­ry of some of the new laws and rules tak­ing effect in Wash­ing­ton today: The min­i­mum wage in […]
Published at:3:30 PM on Tuesday, January 1st, 2013
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Holidays, Legislative Advocacy
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Banished Words for 2013

Excerpt: Edi­tor’s note: This post was orig­i­nal­ly pub­lished on Decem­ber 30th, 2012, and repub­lished on New Year’s Day 2013. Every year since 1976, Michigan’s Lake Supe­ri­or State Uni­ver­si­ty has released a thought­ful and humor­ous “List of Words Ban­ished from the Queen’s Eng­lish for Mis­use, Overuse and Gen­er­al Use­less­ness”. Here is the 2013 (and thir­ty-eighth annu­al) edi­tion, for […]
Published at:9:23 AM on Tuesday, January 1st, 2013
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Holidays, Series & Special Reports
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Happy New Year: Welcome 2013!

Excerpt: 2013 has begun! On behalf of the team at NPI, I’d like to wish all of our read­ers, donors, and vol­un­teers a hap­py, healthy, and pros­per­ous new year. 2013 holds spe­cial sig­nif­i­cance for us, because it is NPI’s tenth year. We’ll be cel­e­brat­ing this remark­able mile­stone that you’ve helped make pos­si­ble all year long — online, at […]
Published at:1:30 AM on Tuesday, January 1st, 2013
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Announcements, Holidays, Legislative Advocacy
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