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  STATISTA: The UK Dominates the Most Damaging Tax Haven   by Anna Fleck,   Oct 1, 2024 New analysis by the Tax Justice Network has revealed the United Kingdom to be the biggest enabler of corporate tax dodging in the world. As this infographic shows, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies dominate the top eight roundup of places allowing multinationals to avoid paying tax on their profits. In total, this makes the UK responsible for about one third of global tax avoidance risk. Ireland entered the top ten list for the first time in 2024 with an index value of 1,622, ranking in ninth place. It is followed by Luxembourg (1,480) and then the Bahamas, the latter of which is an independent member of the British commonwealth but not an OT or CD. In position 12 comes the Isle of Man and in 13 comes Guernsey, both Crown Dependencies. The United Kingdom places in 18th position with a value of 894. According to the Tax Justice Network, about half a trillion dollars are lost to tax

  VOTE FOR ISSUE 10 (www.helpthatworks.us) Lake County ADAMHS Board YOU.ME.US We're in this together. There is no them. Mental Health is the Top Healthcare Concern of Americans A 2023 Ipsos survey has found that mental health is now the chief health concern among U.S. adults, surpassing the coronavirus, obesity and cancer. The chart shows that 53 percent of U.S. respondents said that they thought mental health was the biggest health problem facing people in their country as of August this year, up from 51 percent in 2022. Where the coronavirus had been considered the biggest health problem by roughly two thirds of U.S. respondents throughout the pandemic, perceptions of the danger of the virus have now dropped to just 15 percent of respondents Majority of Americans Have Struggled with Mental Health Having long been stigmatized as a sign of weakness, mental health problems have become much less of a taboo in recent years.  The pandemic, with its unique set of challenges, accelerate

  Jack Miles is the general editor of  The Norton Anthology of World Religions  which consists of six volumes each edited by a specialist in those religion traditions. He was asked to write a general introduction and therefore faced the problem of defining religion. 1. An academic definition would have been an imposition on six associate editors, each far more learned about their traditions than Miles.  2. Various competing academic theories of religion defined the word quite differently ;  no theory, no definition, has acquired universal acceptance.  3. Instead, Miles gave a very commonsense modern notion of religion, however academically objectionable, that would be acceptable to English readers in North America and Europe. 4. He contrasted this modern Western definition with how religion was experienced in antiquity as well as at the present in many cultures around the world by many people. 5. He constructed as plausible a history of the modern notion of religion as he could manage,