Most progressive income tax code in decades: By raising income tax rates on the wealthiest and keeping taxes low for the middle class, the agreement will ensure we have the most progressive income tax code in decades.
Baseball's collective bargaining agreement not only mandates first class jet and travel accommodations for road trips "if practicable"--any exception that has players flying coach must include a minimum of three seats per two players--but also to spring training in February and back to their off-season homes in October.
Obviously, the tax agreement preserved tax rates for middle-class families.
In Oxford, the judges must decide whether an arbitrator was out of line by allowing a class action to proceed on behalf of some 20, 000 doctors even though there was no provision for class actions in the arbitration agreement between doctors and Oxford.
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The other three scenarios include: going over the fiscal cliff with no compromise, going over the cliff with some middle-class tax cuts, or an agreement with a high degree of partisan divide but some compromise.
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In particular, Obama called for Congress to come back after Christmas and work with him on a limited agreement to prevent tax hikes on the middle class, extend unemployment insurance and set a framework for future deficit reduction steps.
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That's why we worked with Republicans and Democrats in Congress to reach an agreement that keeps income taxes low for the middle class and helps to grow the economy.
His goal is to try to find an agreement with Republicans that strengthens and protects the middle class, that helps our economy grow, that helps to create jobs and that achieves the deficit reduction that also will help our economy grow and create jobs in a balanced way.
The agreement sets up a two-tiered compensation system for potential class members.
First, Congress has authorized the Cobell settlement, an agreement that will resolve the 14-year, highly contentious class action lawsuit regarding the U.S. government's trust management and accounting of individual American Indian trust accounts.
The decision, by Justice Samuel Alito, left open a very slim question over whether under different circumstances an arbitrator could determine that the parties might have agreed to class actions although not in the explicit terms of the agreement.
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The political class was intrigued by September 14th's three-party agreement to sort out the obscure convolutions of the Fobaproa bank bail-out.
Leaders in Congress are working on a way to prevent this tax hike on the middle class, and I believe we may be able to reach an agreement that can pass both houses in time.
C. that there is broad agreement among Democrats and Republicans that we should extend tax cuts for middle-class families, but it's not going to happen because Republicans are standing up for tax cuts for wealthy people.
Extending this longstanding agreement reflects both companies' commitment to iDEN technology as a best-in-class platform for push-to-talk (PTT) services.
There is universal agreement that Wales must preserve a cohort of specialist clinicians who can offer that world class healthcare envisaged in 2005.
The problem is, each of the merchants signed an agreement to settle their claims in arbitration, and waived their right to join in class actions.
Later, the President will host an event at the White House to discuss the importance of the agreement passed by Congress to extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance and to urge Congress to build on the success of the agreement by taking additional steps to create jobs, grow the economy and help the middle class.
The agreement passed by an overwhelming bipartisan majority in the Senate last night permanently extends the middle-class tax cuts and also extends credits for working families.
New York University, which signed an agreement with the Abu Dhabi government in 2007, enrolled 148 students in its inaugural fall 2010 undergraduate class.
True, had there been no agreement, the Republicans would have borne the brunt of the blame for tax increases on an already struggling middle class.
The evidence that surfaced in that case, as well as an ongoing private class-action lawsuit that followed, showed Mr. Jobs as a prime mover behind that antipoaching agreement.
The Conservatives had forgotten how to talk to aspirational lower middle class voters in the way that Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair had done, he argued - to agreement from members of the audience.
This fiasco got its start last year, when Schwab inserted in its standard customer arbitration agreement a provision that any investor who opens an account with Schwab is giving up his right to bring a class action against Schwab.
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