Barack Obama’s Tax Cuts – Fact or Fiction?
The Obama / McCain tax cuts is one of the hottest contested debates on the campaign. Obama says that his taxcuts will benefit 95% of the working families and provide three times the tax relief for middle class families than the McCain / Palin ticket.
One of the biggest commitments that Obama is proposing is to not raise taxes for families making under $250,000 per year or individuals making under $200,000 per year.
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To prove some of the points, there is a great new site called www.taxcutfacts.org. It leads you to a cool calculator that acutally compares for you how many Americans will benefit from Obama’s tax cut. You essentially fill in pieces of information such as your income, # of dependents, etc. and the calculator will show you the difference between the two proposed plans.
Obama’s plan is geared to lower federal taxes by about 19 percent below what they were under President Reagan. In addition, Obama promises tax cuts for families to help with health care college and to save for retirement. On the contrary a McCain tax cut is estimated to increases by about $3.6 Trillion, which would mean tens of millions of middle class families will end up paying more taxes, not less.
Another cool feature of the taxcut.org site is that it gathers different media sources and provides you information about they’re saying about the Barack Obama and Joe Bidens’ tax cut plan. This is very useful if you really want to see additional details behind the plan.
According to a Washington Post article Obama’s tax cut will benefit more Americans, especially those who make the least, while McCain’s tax cuts will benefit the very wealthiest, top 0.1% in the country.
Obama’s plan also proposes to eliminate capital gains taxes for entrepreneurs and small business investors, as well as cut corporate taxes for those corporations that create jobs in America. These plans appear to stimulate jobs creation in America, which is dearly needed during this economic crisis that we face.
Forbes Magazine recently described Obama’s tax cut calculator as one of the most useful and simple gadget that they’ve seen on any political website in while. www.taxcutfacts.org is great calculator to use for those who want to know the real facts and savings between the Obama and McCain tax cuts.
Part-Time Jobs For Students Not Only During The Holidays
Part-time jobs for students are plentiful but knowing where and how to look is the trick. While many household breadwinners may be struggling to keep the family income at an acceptable level, it’s somewhat surprising to realize that students are now in pretty good shape in the job market. However, when you take a closer look, it makes sense. Employers who may previously have employed full-time workers might now have downsized staff, with an eye to managing more efficient and cost effective operations. This isn’t good news for people who need a full-time income, but it’s a boon to students. Part-time jobs for students are actually plentiful. If you’re a student, let’s see how you can capitalize on this job trend.
Cultivating flexibility is one major key to success in the part-time jobs for student market. Unlike your Mom or Dad, you can adjust your class schedule such that you’re available for odd shifts, sometimes of short duration or even split shifts. For example, you have classes from 8 a.m. until noon, with an afternoon free before your last class at 7 p.m. Including travel time, you have at least five hours you can work each day. You can grab lunch and then work that odd 1-6 p.m. shift. That employer will have a hard time attracting full-timers for such a schedule. For you, it’s easy money, sufficient for your needs.
Major corporations are advertising part-time jobs for students which offer full-time benefits for part-time work, and sometimes, educational assistance amounting to thousands of dollars per year! Flex-time schedules are now a popular incentive to attract you.
Here’s how to conduct an effective search through the part-time jobs for students market. Be sure your resume is smooth as silk and have ready references available. Go online and search out websites which focus on the teen and college part-time jobs. One example is snagajob.com. Look for sites that offer listings for students, employers and have affiliations with colleges. Posting your resume on any of the big name job boards is another good move. These job boards provide articles and tips to help you make a good presentation and land that job.
Here is a guide on how to find flexible jobs that suit your schedule:
Make an objective assessment of any special skills which might gain you flexibility and/or a better rate of pay. For example, if you’re a math whiz, you may be in great demand as a tutor. Seasonal jobs, as a river rafting guide or ski instructor, are other possibilities.
Don’t neglect leads in your local newspaper. Most have websites where you can peruse the classifieds at any hour of the day.
What leads should you ignore? If a job site requires payment before viewing jobs, pass! Also, don’t waste your time on pie-in-the-sky promises, such as “Make $100 an hour!” There are plenty of legitimate and realistic part-time jobs for students to keep you going all year long. To your success!
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Careers in today’s high technology sector
The high technology job sector has evolved quite dramatically over the last few years. The technology infrastructure that provides us with broadband access, mobile everywhere and anytime, anyplace access to information has really spurred a plethora of new services and by inferrence has created enormous job opportunities for the right people.
Case in point is the presidential campaign of Barack Obama. His campaign team was able to garner an enormous cache of money, because they learned to leverage the web’s ability to touch huge numbers of people simultaneously and oftentimes with different messages. In addition, with the ability to target, iterate and re-focus the message at a moments notice, Mr. Obama’s campaign team showed that they are an online marketing force to be rekoned with.
Oh, and by the way, did you know that Senator Obama’s Twitter profile is the most followed Twitter account? What is Twitter, you ask?
This is the new world within which you must learn to work. I cannot count how many employers now employ or seek to employ the new generation of marketeers and sales agents. If you don’t know SEM, SEO, PPC, CPA, blogging, wikis, twitter or the numerous other direct marketing concepts, you will surely be left in the annals of the technology dinosaurs.
I recently attended an Adtech conference in San Francisco. Picture this … at the Moscone Center … 100s of new wave technolgy companies that just 5 years ago were barely a blip on the screen … commission junction, hitwise, double click, hydra networks … All of them giving out free food, booze, and chatchkas. And, to top it off, “booth babes” galore. This reminded me of the heady enterprise software days of the early to late 90s. You’d think that the real estate fiasco was over and the “happy days are here again”.
The truth is, though, that every major and minor company is integrating online marketing with their offline marketing at incredible speeds. In fact, there are many companies who are even forgoing offline in favor of online. And, the reasons make sense: wider audience, faster target response time and most often a lot less money.
What should you do to prepare for this new approach? As Nike’s slogan says “just do it”. Or, David’s iteration of this slogan, “get on with it”. There are many ways for you to participate in this market with little or no capital costs. Work with your local school, non-profit, or sports group and help them with optimizing their websites.
You can also create your own websites and create adsense ads or PPC to CPA type offers. If you want to get in on the new action, you MUST learn these techniques now before the storm really hits.
Once you’ve ventured into this realm, there really is no turning back. Emphasize your experience, highlight your successes and tout your ability to move a company’s Google PR from 0 to 8 and Alexa rating down from 1M to 1K and then give me a call.
A Tip On Doing A Local Job Search
When you need work, you need to make sure you are doing all you can to find the right job. If you skimp on your job search, you may end up taking a job that you don’t want just to get the bills paid. The more thorough of a search that you do, the more options you will find. When you have more options, you have more from which to choose. Wouldn’t it be great to get three or four great job offers rather than just one so-so one? When you do a local job search, you have to think outside of the normal venues for finding a job.
Most of the good jobs you will find won’t be listed in the classifieds. Your local job search might first lead you to the paper, and you should definitely look there. You may also do a local job search online, and you may find things there that are not in your local paper. However, you should know that some of the best jobs are not listed in either place. You may have to send your resume out to every company that you might want to work for. Often the good jobs are not advertised at all. You have to do the legwork, but it may well be worth it.
A big part of your local job search should include networking with those in your line of work. Quite often this is how you find the best jobs. Those who work in your field often know of job openings before they even open, and they might be able to give you a lead or even recommend you. Networking can be hard to do when you are new in town, but you have to make it a part of your local job search if you hope to find the job of your dreams.
Another key to a good local job search is to be persistent without being overbearing. You can’t just send out resumes and sit back and wait for the phone to ring. There might be ten other people with a resume that looks just as good as yours. You up your chances of getting an interview if you do a follow up call. There are always people with your qualifications doing a local job search, so make sure you stay one step ahead by selling yourself effectively without going overboard. This might take some practice, but you have to learn how to do it for the very best jobs out there.
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