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The bill’s supporters argue that a provision relating to higher educational institutions is crafted to target “woke” universities.Trump’s executive orders
and decisions aimed at changing education and immigration in the country, alongside cracking down on pro-Palestine protests that took place on US college campuses last year.The new tax plans aim to increase taxes on what US universities earn from their endowments.So, what exactly is an endowment?
An endowment refers to funds or assets donated to a university to keep it financially sustained in the future.Endowments typically comprise charitable donations from alumni, other donors and companies.
The bill before the US Congress sets tax rates for universities based on their effective endowments per student – by dividing their total endowments by the number of full-time students at the institution.
Earnings from investments made from endowments will be taxed, if the bill becomes law.Advocacy group Impunity Watch said the case “highlights how the Guatemalan army used sexual violence as a weapon of war against Indigenous women” during the
In 2016, a Guatemalan court sentenced two former military officers for holding 15 women from the Q’eqchi community, who are also of Maya origin, as sex slaves. Both officers were sentenced to a combined 360 years in prison.Commonly used projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is possible.
When Abimbola Ogundairo saw a pretty wooden map she thought would be great decor for her walls, she did something most regular buyers wouldn’t think of: She messaged the manufacturers with a simple, yet charged question.“Which map projection did you use?” she asked, referring to the method of representing maps on a flat plane.