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The latest Treasury estimates put the price tag of cutting the corporate tax rate to 25 per cent at $26 billion over four years. The figures are included in the Business Tax Working Group’s , which canvasses cuts in other corporate tax deductions that could fund the reduced headline tax rate. The Federal Government has [...]

CHICAGO – Laws strictly curbing school sales of junk food and sweetened drinks may play a role in slowing childhood obesity, according to a study that seems to offer the first evidence such efforts could pay off. The results come from the first large national look at the effectiveness of the state laws over time. [...]

Indian billionaire Kumar Mangalam Birla is considering acquiring business process outsourcing companies to help double revenue at his unit that aids customers manage payroll, claims and computers. Aditya Birla Nuvo Ltd. (ABNL), Birla’s company that runs the group’s financial, telecommunications, information technology and chemical divisions, may also sell a stake in the unit Aditya Birla [...]

Accra, Aug. 12, GNA – Dr Abdul Bassit Aziz Bamba, Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ghana has urged the media and lawyers to ensure that the rights and freedoms of all Ghanaians are respected and protected.     He said as professionals they should always abide by their code of ethics and [...]

Facebook Follow @washtimes CHICAGO — Laws strictly curbing school sales of junk food and sweetened drinks may play a role in slowing childhood obesity, according to a study that seems to offer the first evidence such efforts could pay off. The results come from the first large national look at the effectiveness of the state [...]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Hoping to build on state-level reforms aimed at closing the education achievement gap, the Education Department opened its Race to the Top competition to school districts today, inviting the poorest districts across the country to vie for almost $400 million in grants. Following four months of public comment on a draft proposal, [...]

On the bank lending side, corporate loans which are critical for the survival of SMEs have failed to sufficiently pick-up and meet the mounting demand for funding by the broader economy. Based on data compiled from different regional Central Banks, new bank credits to the local businesses across the Arab world totalled circa $740 billion [...]

First of a series of articles, Who Can Vote: a News21 investigation of voting rights in America By Natasha Khan and Corbin Carson, News21A new nationwide analysis of 2,068 alleged election-fraud cases since 2000 shows that while fraud has occurred, the rate is infinitesimal, and in-person voter impersonation on Election Day, which prompted 37 state legislatures [...]