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Show Friday, Feb. 5, 2010 Page 2 World&NatiOn Utah State University • Logan, Utah • www.aggietownsquare.com Clarify Correct The policy of The Utah Statesman is to correct any error made as soon as possible. If you find something you would like clarified or find unfair, please contact the editor at 797-1762 or TSC 105. Possible tax break for hiring unemployed WASHINGTON (AP) — Key is put aside," Schumer said. "Our payDemocrats and Republicans neared roll tax cut is a simple, cost-effective agreement Wednesday on plans to and bipartisan solution." give businesses a tax break for hiring Hatch said, "As a conservative, this unemployed workers, a rare glimmer of proposal isn't about more and more bipartisanship in Congress that could government spending; it's about tax hand President Barack Obama a badly relief to get employers hiring again, needed political victory. which is exactly what millions of The measure is an alternative unemployed Americans most desperto Obama's proposed tax cut of up ately need." Wayne Newton's to $5,000 for each new worker that Obama first said he supported a employers hire. Obama's plan ran new jobs tax credit in December, but abandoned jet rots into opposition from some House House Democrats left it out of a jobs WATERFORD, Mich. (AP) Democrats skeptical whether employbill they passed that month because — Officials say singer Wayne ers will hire because of a tax break. they couldn't figure out how to make it Newton owes a Detroit-area airThe Senate alternative would work effectively. That bill stalled in the port more than exempt companies from paying the Senate. $60,000 after employer's share of Social Security pay"I don't know anybody in busiabandoning his roll taxes for new workers hired this ness who hires an employee because plane more than year, as long as those people had been they will get a tax break," Rep. Mike three years ago ARIZONA LAWMAKERS and Boeing representatives gather in front of the unemployed at least 60 days. It could Thompson, D-Calif., said Wednesday. and leaving it to Boeing offices in Mesa,Ariz. on Tuesday, Jan. 5, as State speaker of the House Kirk pass the Senate as early as next week. "They hire employees because they gather mold. Adams announces the Arizona House of Representatives' plan to address the plumBoth measures are aimed at providhave work to do." meting Arizona economy and the nearly 9 percent unemployment rate. AP photo Oakland ing private businesses an incentive to Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, said County a proposal by Democratic Sen. Chuck abuse than Obama's plan, which would companies that have struggled to keep hire some of the 7 million Americans WAYNE International Schumer of New York and Republican cost $33 billion. who have lost their jobs in the recesworkers would miss out on the credit Airport President NEWTON Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah. It would The Senate bill under discussion sion. while those that got rid of workers Joe Borgesen says the plane once save companies 6.2 percent of the new Wednesday would also extend unemSenate leaders plan to unveil their could get it when they hire replaceworth about $2 million was flown jobs bill Thursday and vote on it as workers' salaries that are subject to ployment payments for those whose ments. into the airport about 25 miles Social Security taxes, and would cost benefits have run out, and would renew early as next week. Even though their "Surely, the Treasury can come northwest of Detroit to have inte- plan differs from Obama's, passage about $11 billion over 10 years, accord- a program that offers the jobless a up with a better way to promote job rior work done that took about a ing to updated estimates. subsidy for health insurance premiums would be a boost to the president as growth," Doggett said to Treasury year to complete. He said Newton, he tries to renew his administration's A company could save a maximum under the COBRA program. About $33 Secretary Tim Geithner Wednesday at who is known as "Mr. Las Vegas," efforts to reduce unemployment in the of $6,621 if it hired an unemployed billion in popular tax breaks, including a House Ways and Means Committee initially paid storage fees but then run-up to congressional elections in worker after the bill is enacted and an income tax deduction for sales and hearing. stopped. paid that worker at least $106,800 — the property taxes and a business tax credNovember. Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., chairmaximum amount of wages subject to it for research and development, would man of the tax-writing Ways and Senate passage would be a breakSocial Security taxes — by the end of the be extended for one year, through through for bipartisanship in a chamMeans Committee, offered this assessyear. The company could get an addi2010. ber that has been split sharply along ment: "It's controversial, it's on the tional $1,000 on its 2011 tax return if The bill would cost a total of about party lines on many important votes. table." it kept the new worker for at least a full $81 billion, and would be partially offIt would also put House Democrats on Geithner said that while increasing year. set by closing an unintended tax loopthe spot to help Obama. Some House consumer demand is key to job growth, Schumer said the money would be hole enabling paper companies to get Democrats have been wary of the jobs tax breaks for hiring new workers repaid to Social Security, but he didn't tax credits for producing alternative tax credit because they doubt it would could help as demand starts to pick up. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Salt say how. fuels during the paper-making process. be effective and they question whether "This doesn't solve all problems," Lake County prosecutors charged Supporters said the Senate plan is "This proposal shows how much we it would be open to fraud. Geithner said. But we think it'll make a 70-year-old woman with murder cheaper, simpler and less vulnerable to can do to help create jobs when politics The Senate plan is modeled after a real difference." on Thursday in the fatal shooting of her daughter-in-law. Court papers say a witness saw Mary Nance Hanson fire multiple shots into the car of 34-year-old Tetyana Nikitina as she prepared CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Mexico's powerthe attacks on the Sinaloa cartel. He told AP that caroften sell candy, cigarettes and gum at Juarez interto leave the Salt Lake Community ful cartels have taken to running drug rehabilitation tel members checked themselves into the unlicensed sections to raise money for struggling rehabilitation Action Program Head Start school centers, turning recovering addicts into hit men and clinics posing as patients. They eventually gained centers. Cartels have seized the opportunity and use on Friday. smugglers and giving some an ultimatum: Work for control by co-opting or running off the workers by addicts to peddle drugs as well. us or we'll kill you. threatening to kill them. Lorenzo Macarena, a heroin addict, was a patient Two of the country's six major drug cartels are Sinaloa members sought by police or by the rival at a clinic where state investigators later found memknown to have used treatment facilities to further Juarez gang would check into the clinics, so they bers of the Sinaloa cartel working. their trade, top Mexican law enforcement officials could hide out, Valencia said. The cartel also used the Macerena was homeless, weighed 80 pounds and told The Associated Press in exclusive interviews. centers to lure in addicts, then tell them they had to had an insatiable habit when another homeless man David Letterman, Feb. 2, 2010 Here, just across the border from El Paso, Texas, work as drug dealers or be killed. gave him the address of what he believed to be a Top 10 Reasons Your Film wasn't nomi41 people have been killed in mass shootings at rehab Recovering addicts, even from licensed clinics, legitimate clinic. nated for an Academy Award. clinics over the past year and a half— massacres 10. Instead of black and white it prompted not only by recruitment efforts within the was shot in just black. clinics, but also by more common reasons like failure 9. "Limited theatrical release" to pay for drugs or betrayal of a dealer. consisted of your parents' base"The rehabilitation centers are an extension of ment in Secaucus. the battlefield," said Edgardo Buscaglia, a leading 8. Missed submisson deadline Mexican drug expert. "There are no refuges anybecause you're on the Mayan calmore." endar. The phenomenon highlights the government's 7. Romantic leads are George failure to address the social ills that have grown Clooney and Gerry Cooney. from Mexico's burgeoning drug trade, he said. While 6. Jury at Cannes gave you more the government has gone after the cartels using the death sentences than Chemical police and military, they have done little to regulate Ali. 5. You bribed Academy president private treatment facilities that have proliferated as cocaine use doubled nationwide over the last six with a Toyota. years. 4. Directed by a drunk and conIn Ciudad Juarez, a city of 1.3 million with an fused Rip Torn. estimated 100,000 addicts, many of the clinics are 3. Film could only be seen if you unlicensed, run out of dilapidated homes by former wore 5-D glasses. addicts — making them easy targets for traffickers to 2. Due to budget constraints, infiltrate. alien robot is a guy with alumiA FAKE SKULL AND A RELIGIOUS IMAGE are seen in this Nov. 20 photo in one of the dorms at the Victor Valencia, the former public safety secretary num foil underpants. CDLDA rehab center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Mexico's powerful drug cartels have been operating drug rehabilifor Chihuahua state who resigned Sunday and is 1. Jets coach Rex Ryan saw film, tation clinics, turning some into bloody killing fields and forcing recovering addicts into their ranks of hit men and expected to run for mayor of Ciudad Juarez, blamed gave it the finger. smugglers. 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