Economy
Postal Service Reschedules White River Junction Meeting (VPR News)
December 8, 2011
By Melody Bodette A meeting planned to allow the public to weigh in on the proposed closure of the White River Junction mail processing facility has been rescheduled. The US Postal Service had planned a public meeting on December 15th to weigh in on the facility’s closure, which would mean the loss of 245 jobs. [...]
Editorial: Postal Fix: Return to Sender (Valley News)
Welcome to the post-post office world, where the U.S. Postal Service’s long-term strategy to cope with the threat posed by e-mail, online bill payment and private carriers consists of largely eliminating next-day delivery of first-class mail, closing 3,700 post offices, cutting back deliveries from six days to five, and shrinking the work force by more [...]
Wrong time to cut postal jobs, Sanders says (Burlington Free Press)
December 6, 2011
By Free Press Staff The U.S. Postal Service says at least one Vermont site is on its list of those targeted in plans to close more than 250 mail processing centers across the country. A list released this year of processing centers to be closed included facilities in Essex Junction and White River Junction. But [...]
Postal Service Says Cuts Will Happen (WPTZ)
December 5, 2011
BURLINGTON, Vt. — The U.S. Postal Service announced Monday it will move forward with a plan to close more than 250 of the roughly 500 mail processing centers across the country, possibly by next March. That includes White River Junction and Essex Junction in Vermont, Manchester and Nashua in New Hampshire and 13 in New [...]
Sanders Fights Postal Service Layoffs (VPR News)
By Melody Bodette (Host) The struggling U.S. Postal Service says it’s moving forward with plans to close more than 250 mail processing centers around the country, including two slated for Vermont. The $3 billion in cuts announced today would slow first-class mail service, ending next-day deliveries of stamped letters. The list released earlier this year [...]
Parties roll out dueling payroll tax proposals (Politico)
By Manu Raju & Jake Sherman December drama has hit the Hill. President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are on a collision course with Republicans over extending a payroll tax break that expires at year’s end, with both sides pushing new proposals that diverge dramatically over how to pay for the tax cut. Senate Majority [...]
Boehner Optimistic on Payroll Tax Cuts (Bloomberg)
December 2, 2011
By Richard Rubin and James Rowley The first attempts to prevent a payroll tax cut from expiring Dec. 31 fell short in the U.S. Senate, even as House Speaker John Boehner expressed confidence that Congress would extend the tax break and unemployment benefits. “There is enough common ground between where the White House and Democrats [...]
Republican leaders shifting stance on payroll tax cut (CNN)
By Tom Cohen Washington (CNN) — A top Republican leader agreed Thursday with President Barack Obama and Democrats that extending the payroll tax cut would help the economy, but the parties remained divided over how to pay for the move. Later Thursday, the Senate blocked competing Democratic and Republican proposals from moving forward, setting up [...]
Obama: Pass payroll tax cut extension or stay through Christmas (MSNBC)
Watch Bernie discuss his vote on the payroll tax cut extension with Ed Schultz on MSNBC.
“Absolutely we need a major tax cut for the Middle-Class; absolutely it has got to be funded by asking the wealthiest people in this country to start paying their fair share. “
Audio: Leahy, Sanders Want To Extend, Expand Payroll Tax Cut (VPR News)
November 29, 2011
(Host) Both of Vermont’s U.S. senators say extending and expanding a payroll tax cut is a good way to help stimulate the national economy. VPR’s Bob Kinzel reports: (Kinzel) Here’s the issue facing Congress. The current payroll tax holiday is set to expire at the end of December. Usually this tax rate is 6.2 percent [...]
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