The role of religion in the public sphere has become of increasing interest to those concerned with discrimination/equality, with the expansion of EU and domestic anti-discrimination legislation beyond the sphere of employment and to cover new grounds such as sexual orientation and religion. Religious...
Tax History: Compromising on the Current Tax Payment Act of 1943 By Joseph J. Thorndike | 03/25/2024 Joseph J. Thorndike explains the conflicting interests that came to a compromise to pass the Current Tax Payment Act of 1943, which implemented systems of withholding and current collection fo...
In response, Albert Parsons denounced the Pinkertons as “a private army…at the command and control of those who grind the faces of the poor, who keep wages down to the starvation point.” In the end, the jury sided with Johnson, and all eight were condemned to death. Four of them—...
Therefore, Sheba began to litigate with the sick fund for payment of vacation time he had coming to him in order to receive one more paycheck from Kupat Holim. Letter from Sheba to the Kupat Holim management, March 11, 1948, Bondy Archives.28. “Tzav Giyus ha-Rofim” (Doctors’ Draft...
then there will be very small impacts of disease on poverty. Standard intermediate macroeconomics says that wages come from productivity and the more land or physical capital each worker has, the higher their wages will be. Because of this, the usual story I tell my students about the Black ...