Aiming to sidestep a logjam in Congress, the Obama administration is looking for steps it could take on its own to prevent American companies from reincorporating overseas to shirk U.S. taxes, officials said Tuesday.
Even as they grapple with an immigration crisis at the border, White House officials are making plans to act before November's mid-term elections to grant work permits to potentially millions of immigrants who are in this country illegally, allowing them to stay in the United States without threat of deportation, according to advocates and lawmakers in touch with the administration.
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Although the U.S. labor market has seen some improvement, it is not enough to significantly help the long-term unemployed and individuals who have exhausted their unemployment benefits, say economists and labor experts. We take a closer look at this issue in part one of our latest look at the nation's unemployment crisis. Check back with Progress Illinois later this week for a look at how the sequester cuts have only added to the woes of the long-term unemployed.
Reforming the sugar program in the nation's farm bill would make U.S. manufacturers more competitive and reduce prices for consumers, said U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), co-sponsor of an amendment to revamp the system.
The amendment, S. 345, did not seek to eliminate the program. Instead, it aimed to reform restrictions on imports as well as subsidies for sugar growers, along with other changes. But the Senate rejected the amendment by a 45-54 vote
Wednesday.
“We’ve
been hearing a lot of talk about the need to protect America’s sugar
farmers, but what we haven’t heard is that sugar remains the most
tightly controlled commodity market in this country,” Shaheen said during floor discussion in the Senate Wednesday. “We
currently have an outdated ... program that offers a sweet deal to a small
group of sugar growers and processors at the expense of too many other
American businesses and at the expense of American consumers.”
In Illinois’ 13th Congressional District Race, one of the
closest in the state, a recent poll of 400 likely voters found
Republican Rodney Davis and Democrat David Gill to be one percentage
point apart, just weeks before the November 6 election. We offer a closer look at the race.
Reforming the sugar program in the nation's farm bill would make U.S. manufacturers more competitive and reduce prices for consumers, said U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), co-sponsor of an amendment to revamp the system.
