Author: Ron Durst
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: rural, households, income, low, tax, policies, federal
Number of Pages: 27
Published: 2011-08
ISBN-10: 1437985564
ISBN-13: 9781437985566

Analyzes the increasing use of refundable tax credits targeted to low- and moderate-income households in the Federal individual income tax and determines their implications for rural America. The analysis matches a zip code approximation of the 2006 Rural-Urban Commuting Area Codes with IRS Individual Income Tax zip code and related data. These data are then used to examine the impact of the recent expansions to income tax credit programs on affected households. Expansions to both the refundable and non-refundable portions of the Earned Income and Child Tax credits have provided a major source

Author: Photographs by Angela BucklandText by Kathleen M
Publisher: HSRC Press
Keywords: zip, harts, brain
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 2006-01-02
ISBN-10: 0796921598
ISBN-13: 9780796921598

Zip Zip My Brain Harts is the result of collaboration between Buckland (a photographer) and HSRC researchers concerned with disability issues. Angie Buckland’s remarkable photographs, interspersed with challenging text, are a unique expression of the fullness of human experience, with all its joy, pain and confusion. There is a tendency for disability to be a secret. The challenges that face families of people with disabilities are also often hidden away. Part of the reason is that disability is still largely seen as a shame, a disgrace, and a source of stigma. Angie Buckland, the mother of

Author: Phillip R. Herr
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: federal, mail, washington, area, irradiation, information, states, postal, service, united
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2009-02
ISBN-10: 1437908772
ISBN-13: 9781437908770

In Oct. 2001, spores of the deadly bacterium anthrax were found in mail sent to members of the news media and congressional leaders. In all, 22 people were infected with anthrax and 5 people died, including 2 postal workers. The U.S. Postal Service took a variety of steps to protect people from biohazards in the mail. For ex., it began contracting for the irradiation of mail to recipients at the Congress, the White House, and fed. agencies with specific ZIP Codes (20201 through 20597) in the Wash., D.C., area. This report describes: the vol. of mail irradiated and how the vol. has changed; the

Author: Barry Leonard
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: december, status, competition, telephone, local
Number of Pages: 36
Published: 2011-05
ISBN-10: 1437945031
ISBN-13: 9781437945034

The third in a series of reports about local telephone service in the U.S. that includes comprehensive info. about subscribership to interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol (żinterconnected VoIPż) service as well as comprehensive info. about the more traditional telephone service lines. The report summarizes data collected by the FCC Form 477 as of December 31, 2009. The report includes certain ZIP Code-based info. in the report. At present, there is no Form 477 requirement to report any telephone service info. at the census tract level of detail. The report also updates summary statisti

Author: Charles EisensteinBrand Shamans Market-OtherCate
Publisher: EVOLVER EDITIONS
Keywords: society, transition, gift, money, economics, sacred
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2011-07-12
ISBN-10: 1583943978
ISBN-13: 9781583943977

Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme—but in the wake of their collapse, we may find great opportunity to transition to a more connected, ecological, and sustainable way of being.   This book is about how the money system will have to change—and is already changing—to embody this transition. A broadly integrated synthesis of the

Author: William E. Shotts Jr.
Publisher: No Starch Pre
Keywords: introduction, complete, line, command, linux
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2012-01-14
ISBN-10: 1593273894
ISBN-13: 9781593273897

You’ve experienced the shiny, point-and-click surface of your Linux computer—now dive below and explore its depths with the power of the command line. The Linux Command Line takes you from your very first terminal keystrokes to writing full programs in Bash, the most popular Linux shell. Along the way you’ll learn the timeless skills handed down by generations of gray-bearded, mouse-shunning gurus: file navigation, environment configuration, command chaining, pattern matching with regular expressions, and more. In addition to that practical knowledge, author William Shotts