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     The reason for this is an increase in “correspondence audits,” which are IRS reviews of tax returns conducted by letters and phone calls rather than the more sophisticated face-to-face audits. TRAC discovered that low-income people who claimed the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) were the target of more than half of the IRS correspondence audits last year.

After initially casting his vision to a group of friends in 1955, entrepreneur Julius P. Carter started investing every extra dollar he could from his cigarette vending business that he operated out of his office garage, into the equipment he needed to print his first tabloid-sized publication.

     “This has been a 30-plus year journey,” Congresswoman Jackson Lee declared. “We had to take a different approach. We had to go one by one to members explaining this does not generate a check.” Congresswoman Jackson Lee said this week that there’s now enough votes in the House for passage of the historic piece of legislation.

     The Jussie Smollett drama came to a startling finale Thursday when a Chicago judge sentenced him to five months in prison for concocting a “disgraceful” hate crime hoax, leading the actor to yell out in protest, “I’m innocent!”

     Dr. Bridget had the vision of creating a book that inspired and educated others about cannabis and CBD through storytelling. Even though her background is highly focused in evidence-based medicine, what others find inspirational are the testimonies of everyday people, not the research numbers. Another motivation is that she knows sharing stories is a healing process for the author. “There is a lot of struggle, shame and guilt in the cannabis experience and being able to provide an opportunity for others to resolve their difficulties and celebrate their empowerment is meaningful for me as a physician and a life coach.”