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By SAM SHRIVER Times Bulletin Reporter reporter@timesbulletin.com VAN WERT — Vantage Career Center was a busy place Thursday night as there was the month
Higher tax rates for high-income households in Massachusetts are not causing them to leave the state, according to IRS data in a new report from the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center. In fact, the out-migration rate of households in Massachusetts earning more than $200,000 a year between 2011 and 2020 was lower than forty other states. Kurt Wise, tax policy analyst at the center, said tax changes have little impact on where wealthy households choose to live. ...
By Nadia RamlaganPublic News ServiceIn Kentucky, unions and their advocates continue to push for changes to shift public contract money toward suppliers sourcing their materials from American ma
In Kentucky, unions and their advocates continue to push for changes to shift public contract money toward suppliers sourcing their materials from American manufacturers. In 2021, President Biden signed an executive order requiring the federal government to spend more money on American-made goods. Larry Ray, District 8 director for the United Steelworkers, which serves union members in Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia and Maryland, said Buy American rules help secure the country's supply chain and buffer the economy in the event of another pandemic-type event. ...
Feted by what she calls the “daylight culture”—winner of the Mercury Prize in 2005, Oscar nominee eleven years later—Anohni is doubling back to her days (nights, really) as a performance artist in early-’90s New York. Anohni’s quarantine project was culling from her “threadbare” archive, making thousands of stills from videos of her theater collective, the Blacklips Performance Cult, which rose from Manhattan’s queer underground between the summer of ’92 and spring of ’95. The results are presented in the book Blacklips: Her Life and Her Many, Many Deaths (Anthology Editi...