In the Dimwood region, a large family of mice inhabit an abandoned farmhouse called Gray House. Poppy, a young deer mouse, dances with her boyfriend Ragweed, a golden mouse, on Bannock Hill. However, Mr. Ocax, a great horned owl who acts as a tyrannical ruler over the family, attacks them and kills Ragweed. When Poppy returns to Gray House, she learns that the family must relocate to New House, where the food is more abundant. However, Ocax refuses to give the family permission to move to the area, citing Poppy and Ragweed's refusal to ask his permission to go to Bannock Hill. His refusal makes Poppy curious, so she decides to travel to New House herself to investigate.
In Dimwood Forest, Poppy stumbles upon Ereth, a porcupine. Ereth agrees to protect Poppy from Ocax in exchange for the salt lick at New House that he can't obtain on his own. Ereth drops Poppy off at the boundaries of New House, where Poppy discovers that Ocax is afraid of a large artificial owl there. Armed with one of Ereth's quills, Poppy confronts Ocax about the figure but inadvertently reveals that it is fake. Ocax then attacks Poppy but is defeated when Poppy stabs him with the quill. Ocax slams into the salt lick pole, killing him and causing the salt lick to fall to the ground. Ereth retrieves the salt lick, and Poppy goes home to tell her family they are now free from Ocax and able to move. A few moons later she meets and marries Rye, Ragweed's brother. Each night they freely dance on Bannock Hill.
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Carolyn Phelan, writing in the ALA's Booklist, called Poppy "a good old-fashioned story with an exciting plot, well-drawn characters, and a satisfying ending", noting themes of power among the novel's three main characters: Poppy, who finds courage; Ocax, who oppresses the mice family; and Ragweed, who criticizes Poppy for being cautious.[7] Kirkus Reviews described Poppy as a "cute, but rather standard offering from Avi".[2] The School Library Journal referred to it as a "fast-paced, allegorical animal story", commenting that "the underlying messages, to challenge unjust authority and to rely on logic and belief in oneself, are palatably blended with action and suspense."[8]
Unlike the EITC, the child tax credit is not targeted to just lower-income taxpayers. A married couple with two qualifying children can receive the child tax credit with AGI up to $150,000 (an income level that puts them in the top 10 percent of the income distribution). In fact, the limits on the additional child tax credit cap the refundable portion of the credit for the lowest-income taxpayers, but usually not for middle-income taxpayers. In addition, the CTC is a fixed per child amount and thus does not take into consideration economies of scale within the family.
A few studies examine the EITC and the labor supply of married taxpayers. Since the EITC depends on family earnings, the EITC could have different effects on the primary wage earner and the secondary wage earner.11 Among married women who are already working, the EITC appears to have little effect on labor force participation (in the phase-in range) and a small negative effect on the hours worked (in the phase-out range) (Eissa and Hoynes 2006b; Heim 2010).
The effect of the two tax credits on poverty is not uniform; it varies by family size. Adjusting for family size can change apparent tax burdens as well as the tax benefits for the EITC and CTC (see, for example, Hoffman and Seidman 1990; Gravelle and Gravelle 2006; and Cronin, DeFilippes, and Lin 2012). Table 3 reports the before- and after-tax poverty rates of taxpayers receiving the EITC or the CTC, by tax filing status and number of qualifying children.12 On the one hand, taxpayers eligible for the EITC who have no qualifying children have the highest poverty rates: about 78 percent of single taxpayers and 56 percent of married taxpayers in this group have before-tax incomes below the poverty line. The after-tax incomes of these two groups leave even greater percentages in poverty. These after-tax poverty rates undoubtedly would have been higher without the EITC, but for these taxpayers the credit does little to offset income and payroll taxes. On the other hand, taxpayers with qualifying children (married or single) experience a reduction in poverty rates due to the EITC and CTC. For some of these taxpayers, the two credits together more than offset income and payroll taxes to raise living standards.13
Furman would also expand the EITC for childless workers, doubling the credit to cover all payroll taxes and allowing it on earnings up to $8,080 (the same threshold for families with one child). His reform would begin the phase out at $10,000 for singles and $10,000 plus a marriage adjustment for couples. The marriage adjustment would help reduce the EITC marriage penalty, and it would do so by increasing the starting point for the phase-out of the EITC for married couples by $3,000. He calculated (in 2006) that beginning this policy in tax year 2008 would have reduced the marriage penalty by $632 for a family in the phase-out range, and would have provided a tax cut of about $400 to roughly three million married couples, at a total cost of about $1.2 billion annually.
Ani Hovanessian is a partner in the Private Clients Group, focusing on estate planning, business succession planning and charitable gifting. She serves as personal general counsel to high-net-worth families and individuals, including private equity, hedge fund, and venture capital principals; executives of privately and publicly held businesses; family business owners; entrepreneurs; real estate investors; and art collectors. She advises her clients on the complexities of strategic wealth transference, business succession, and asset protection planning, which includes pre-marital and post-marital planning.
Additionally, Ani implements family governance structures to educate and involve successive generations on the stewardship of wealth. Her clients not only value her legal guidance; they also appreciate her focus on developing long-term, meaningful relationships with successive generations to create a lasting legacy.
Because of my background in mathematics and meteorology, I'm used to working in environments that are overwhelmingly populated by men. I'm not typically treated differently because of my gender, and if anything, I've probably received more encouragement because of it. I was concerned that having children would change the landscape of opportunities available to me. Certainly, focussing on my family meant making some professional sacrifices for a period of time. Maintaining networks through this period, and doing what I could when I could, made a profound difference to my ability to increase the pace again as my children got older. It is a credit to the progressive mindset of my managers that my use of flexible working arrangements was never a barrier to success.
Weather phenomena have fascinated me for a while. When I was a child, I used to leave my bed at night to watch any thunderstorm occurring over the city I was living in. Some family relatives used to travel by air a lot and used to talk about the phenomena encountered, such as tropical convective clouds or auroras. I was amazed and found it exiting to try to understand them. When the geography curriculum at school included a large section about meteorology, it became clear that this domain was definitely the one I wanted to study. I never changed my mind about that and did my best to find the most relevant way within the French educational system to achieve my objective. A strong support from my family was also part of the success especially when I felt that my skill level was not high enough.
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Avi is the author of several novels for young readers and has won Newbery awards for The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (1990), Nothing But The Truth (1991) and Poppy (1995). A longtime librarian before becoming a novelist, he has written historical novels, comedies, animal adventures and ghost stories. His books include No More Magic (1979), The Man Who Was Poe (1990) and Beyond the Western Sea (1997). 2ff7e9595c
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