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TurboTax Uses A “Military Discount” to Trick Troops Into Paying to File Their Taxes
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TurboTax Uses A “Military Discount” to Trick Troops Into Paying to File Their Taxes

May 27, 2019May 27, 2019

by Justin Elliott and Kengo Tsutsumi  May 23, 5 a.m. EDT Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, created and promoted a “military discount” that charges service members who are eligible to file for free. …

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I Now Have the Perspective of Both Sides”: 18 Voting Officials Take Civil Rights Tour
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I Now Have the Perspective of Both Sides”: 18 Voting Officials Take Civil Rights Tour

May 16, 2019May 16, 2019

A trip that included a walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, drew a number of officials from states with controversial voting requirements. by Jessica Huseman May 13, 5:27 …

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2 Million Indian Lawyers And No Retirement Plans – Choking New Entrants

January 28, 2019January 28, 2019

Hemant K. Batra | Law & Policy Lawyer I couldn’t stop myself from writing this small writeup or should I say sharing this thought. My line of thinking got stimulated …

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Memorial Sloan Kettering Curbs Executives’ Ties to Industry After Conflict-of-Interest Scandals
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Curbs Executives’ Ties to Industry After Conflict-of-Interest Scandals

January 14, 2019January 14, 2019

The cancer center will now bar top officials from sitting on outside boards of for-profit companies, and is conducting a wide-scale review of other policies. by Katie Thomas, The New York Times, …

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Law came out victorious while none of the Parties could claim triumph: CBI Versus CBI

January 8, 2019January 8, 2019

Hemant K. Batra, Law & Policy Expert Goeman Bind HTO, International Law & Policy Think Tank Photo Source: Wikipedia – Wikimedia Commons A fair and balanced judgement by the highest …

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Putting algae and seaweed on the menu could help save our seafood
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Putting algae and seaweed on the menu could help save our seafood

December 27, 2018December 27, 2018

Pallavi Anand, The Open University and Daniela Schmidt, University of Bristol Shutterstock If we have to feed 9.8 billion people by 2050, food from the ocean will have to play …

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6-Year-Old Separated From His Father Tells Judge He Wants to Go Home
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6-Year-Old Separated From His Father Tells Judge He Wants to Go Home

December 20, 2018December 20, 2018

The Salvadoran boy who appeared alone in immigration court last month returned this week with his father’s lawyer in tow. The law puts the decision to return to his family …

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Judge Calls for Examination of Quality Controls in New York Supported Housing System

December 10, 2018December 10, 2018

by Joaquin Sapien  Dec. 7, 12 p.m. EST The day ProPublica and Frontline reported how people with mental illness are slipping through the cracks, federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis questioned state officials, …

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Families Are Still Being Separated at the Border, Months After “Zero Tolerance” Was Reversed
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Families Are Still Being Separated at the Border, Months After “Zero Tolerance” Was Reversed

November 29, 2018November 29, 2018

by Ginger Thompson  Nov. 27, 4:45 p.m. EST Immigration lawyers say border agents are again removing children from their parents. The explanation? They’re protecting kids from criminal dads and moms. Immigration …

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“Pretty Much a Failure”: HUD Inspections Pass Dangerous Apartments Filled With Rats, Roaches and Toxic Mold
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“Pretty Much a Failure”: HUD Inspections Pass Dangerous Apartments Filled With Rats, Roaches and Toxic Mold

November 19, 2018November 19, 2018

by Molly Parker, The Southern Illinoisan Nov. 16, 11 a.m. EST The system for inspecting federally subsidized properties is failing low-income families, seniors and people with disabilities and undermining the agency’s oversight, …

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