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THE PESO is seen climbing further against the greenback this week, with the market likely to be bullish amid the leadership change in the United States.
The local unit finished trading at P48.065 against the dollar on Friday, inching up from its P48.07 close on Thursday, data from the Bankers Association of the Philippines showed.
Week on week, it also appreciated by 2.3 centavos from its P48.088-per-dollar close on Jan. 8.
The peso strengthened on the back of the record high gross international reserve (GIR) level seen at end-2020, Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. Chief Economist Michael L. Ricafort said in a text message.
Rep. Iman Jodeh, D-Aurora, finds being a member of the Colorado House almost surreal.
The first Muslim and Palestinian-American elected to the Colorado General Assembly said she never considered running for elected office before it all just fell together.
âIâm not used to it yet,â she said in an interview at HiRa Cafe & Patisserie in Aurora, a block away from where she grew up.
âI was never advocating or doing social justice work to build a track record,â Jodeh (pronounced E-man JU-dah) said. âThe end game was never to be an elected (official).â
It was to give a voice and to help others in need, she said, whether through the Interfaith Alliance or Meet the Middle East, the nonprofit she started 10 years ago to build relationships between citizens in the United States and the Middle East.
Thousands of National Guard troops pour into Washington as states answer the call
Interviews: National Guardsmen in U.S. capital for inauguration National Guard troops in Washington in the wake of a deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6 talk about the experience of being mobilized to the city in the midst of potential unrest around the inauguration of President-Elect Joe Biden. WASHINGTON By the busload and planeload, National Guard troops were pouring into the nation’s capital on Saturday, as governors answered the urgent pleas of U.S. defense officials for more troops to help safeguard Washington even as they keep anxious eyes on possible violent protests in their own states.
Wyden in 2019 released a proposal to tax high-income people’s investment gains annually rather than when the investments are sold. He said he plans to do further work on this proposal.
“If you are a nurse in America taking care of COVID patients, you don’t get to defer paying your taxes. But if you’re a billionaire, you can defer, defer, defer some more and then pretty much never pay any taxes at all,” he said. “My plan would put a stop to that.”
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Wyden also said he wants to roll back “corporate tax giveaways” in Trump’s 2017 law as well as the cuts for high earners. Additionally, he said he wants to close the carried interest “loophole” that benefits investment-fund managers, and better target a tax deduction for income from noncorporate businesses created by Trump’s law.