Tawana owns and operates a sole proprietorship and has a 37 percent marginal tax rate. she provides her son, jonathon, $10,000 a year for college expenses. jonathon works as a pizza delivery person every fall and has a marginal tax rate of 15 percent. b. how much pretax income does it currently take tawana to generate the $10,000 (after-taxes) given to jonathon? (round your answer to the nearest whole dollar amount.)

The text states that the committee “expects inflation to rise gradually toward 2% over the medium term as the labor market improves further….” why would the fomc expect inflation to rise because of improvements in the labor market?

The typical consumer's food basket in the base year 2015 is as follows: 30 chickens at $4 each 10 hams at $5 each 10 steaks at $8 each a chicken feed shortage causes the price of chickens to rise to $5.00 each in the year 2016. hams rise to $7.00 each, and the price of steaks is unchanged. a. calculate the change in the "cost-of-eating" index between 2015 and 2016. year cost of the basket 2015 $ 2016 $ instructions: enter your responses rounded to one decimal place. the official cost-of-eating index has by %. b. suppose that consumers are completely indifferent between two chickens and one ham. for this example, how large is the substitution bias in the official "cost-of-eating" index? the in the cost-of-eating index is %. the of inflation in the cost of eating reflects substitution bias.

Money from an allowance or job is known as .