BRATTLEBORO — Last year, on U.S. profits of $5.6 billion, Amazon didn't pay federal income tax.
The company's “warehouse associates,” who work at $12.63 per hour, did.
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A small group of community members gathered around a folding table in the Dummerston Community Center to hear staff members from Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation (BDCC) make their case for funding their economic development efforts. Staff are in the early days of hosting information sessions across Windham County. The Feb. 12 meeting was the third of an anticipated eight that the organization has planned. This is the first year the BDCC has held these pre-Town Meeting sessions. These sessions serve...
Gee. Who would have thought? A better headline for Joyce Marcel's thorough and revealing story on homelessness might have pointed to the actual conclusion of the studies of researchers Colburn and Aldern: Homelessness is one of the consequences of institutional racism. "Systemic discrimination across multiple systems, education, housing, criminal justice, etc. produce these disproportionate outcomes [...]," as Colburn said in the state treasurer's forum. In all aspects of our society, people of color fare worse than whites. Discrimination in hiring...
In a rare local appearance, Joel 'Veena' Eisenkramer, presents a Stone Church Arts concert of traditional North Indian evening ragas played on the 20-stringed Indian slide guitar on Saturday, May 11, at 7:30 p.m. Eisenkramer will be accompanied on tabla by Rajesh Pai. The concert takes place in the beautiful and historic Immanuel Episcopal Church, the stone church on the hill, 20 Church St., Bellows Falls. For the past 11 years, Eisenkramer has studied and performed Hindustani classical music, traveling...
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