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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Since 1950, Americans with household help have been required to pay Social Security and Medicare taxes for workers earning more than $50 in a calendar quarter (plus unemployment insurance for workers earning $1,000). For many years, compliance was difficult and time consuming and, for the IRS, enforcement was a low priority. In 1986, new immigration laws made it illegal to hire undocumented immigrants, even in private homes. Both laws were widely disregarded. Public awareness of and compliance with these legal requirements increased dramatically in 1993 when yet to be inaugurated President ...
Have you heard? "The Nanny Diaries" has a sequel: "Nanny Returns." And with its release, the popular press is once again awash with analyses of that emotionally fraught quagmire: the nanny-employer relationship. It's admittedly hard to read these books -- or watch the eponymous film based on the first one -- and not conclude that all women who hire other women to take care of their children are the moral equivalents of Joan Crawford in "Mommie Dearest." But like most things, there are two sides to this story. While it may not be easy to find a good family to work for, hitting upon the right ...
The revelation that President-elect Barack Obama's nominee to be Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, employed an illegal immigrant as a nanny and failed to pay Social Security taxes on her salary until he was nominated is only the latest in a string of similar discoveries concerning Cabinet nominees dating back at least fifteen years to the first Clinton Administration. Obama tried to dismiss Geithner's problems today, as all presidents-elect do; but also like past presidents-elect, Obama may find that nanny problems are particularly difficult for Cabinet nominees to overcome.President ...
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