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U.S. corporations cash in on tax bill, throw employees a bone

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has inspired a wave of corporate largesse. When Congress passed the tax bill on December 20, AT&T announced that it would give $1,000 bonuses over the holidays to 200,000 of its U.S. employees. The largest telecommunications company in the world by revenue, AT&T was a vocal supporter of the tax bill, which lowers the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%.

Other companies were quick to jump on the PR bandwagon. Comcast gave $1,000 bonuses to over 100,000 employees. Fifth Third announced a $15 minimum hourly wage across the company and gave out $1,000 bonuses to more than 13,500 of its employees.

2017 Citywide Kwanzaa Celebration

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December 26, 2017 - January 1, 2018
King Arts Complex. 867 Mt. Vernon Ave.
We are excited to announce the 2017 Citywide Kwanzaa Celebration. There will be seven days of activites for everyone to enjoy. It's that time of year when we come together to celebrate the principles of Kwanzaa and our accomplishments this year!

Please visit our website at https://columbuskwanzaa365.com/ to learn about the Pre-Kwanzaa and Kwanzaa events that will be taking place for our children and families. 

Stand Up for Palestinian Children's Human Rights - Ask Your Rep. to Support HR 4931

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From the Presbyterian Office of Public Witness:  Stand Up for Palestinian Children's Human Rights - Ask Your Rep. to Support HR 4931.  On November 14, 2017, Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) introduced a bill to prevent U.S. tax dollars from paying for human rights violations against Palestinian children in Israeli military detention.  The Promoting Human Rights by Ending Israeli Military Detention of Palestinian Children Act (H.R.

Get involved in Central Ohio Worker Center in 2018!

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The COWC has a bold vision for 2018 that includes: placing immigrant workers in good jobs, stopping deportations, advancing a wage theft ordinance, and much more. If you share our vision for social justice in Columbus, we would love for you to join one of our three working groups.

·         The Immigrant Justice Committee (IJC) advances immigrant rights values, and is involved in providing trainings, creating deportation defense campaigns, and supporting coalition building throughout Ohio.

·         The Worker Justice Committee (WJC) advances worker rights values, and is involved in building a relationship with the labor movement, processing wage theft cases, connecting immigrants and non-unionized workers to fair jobs, and more.

The Greatest Gift to Global Corporate Executives

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The tax bill advertised by Republicans as a Christmas gift to the American people is in fact a gift to the Global Corporate CEOs and other such executives on incentive compensation plans.  The most favored of this group are the executives of the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) with Lockheed Martin at the top.  Their gifts – to transition from multi-millionaires to billionaires.

The earlier 10% increase in military spending specially benefited MIC executives and their Carlyle Group directors.  The cut in the corporate income tax rate will probably increase their compensation at a generous multiple of the percentage which that cut represents to the increase in corporate net income and rate of return on equity.

Fighting the Assaults on Net Neutrality and Our Economy

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Let’s all take a moment to savor this great grass-roots U.S. Senate victory in Alabama of Democrat Doug Jones over alleged child molester Roy Moore. Let’s also celebrate the victory of the moderate Ralph Northam over the extremist Republican Ed Gillespie to be governor of Virginia, and a possible flip of the Virginia Legislature, with the influx of a strong contingent of progressive women.

Breathe deep. Stretch up your arms. Shout for joy.

OK?

Now let’s use all that great new energy to fend off Donald Trump’s twin assaults on net neutrality and our core economy.

Losing could leave us blind and impoverished. So don’t even think about it.

On net neutrality, the fight is ongoing and long-term.

On Trump’s tax scam, we have at best a few days.

A mass movement already is in place to save the internet.

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