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• New Study Analyzes Beneficiaries of Dividend Tax Rate Reduction
  Mar 1, 2010 —
  Among other things, this exhaustive research shows that many utility shareholders rely on dividend earnings to supplement their income.
• Let’s work together to protect our seniors
  Mar 1, 2010 — The Hill
  Dividend income comes through each quarter, when most American companies make payments to tens of millions of Americans who own shares in U.S. businesses. Right now, taxes on dividend income are low, but Congress must act to keep it that way
• Coalition seeks freeze on dividend tax
  Feb 27, 2010 — The Hill
  "As the country is trying to come out of the worst economic period since the Depression, we’re saying this is not a great time to essentially create a federal tax hike on dividend income," said Jim Owen, Director of Media Relations at the utility advocacy group Edison Electric Institute (EEI). "There are tens of millions of people that receive dividend income and a great many of them are retired, or teachers, and don’t make a lot of money."
• New Group Formed to Represent Utility Investors
  Jan 11, 2010 — InsideINdianaBusiness.com
  A former state representative is the executive director of a new organization representing investors in Indiana utility companies. Tim Harris is serving as executive director of the Marion-based Indiana Utility Shareholders Association. The organization says it already has more than 1,000 members.
• Sen Baucus Introduces Bill On Middle-Class Tax Cuts
  Apr 8, 2009 — Dow Jones Newswire
  U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D- Mont., introduces legislation to make permanent tax cuts that benefit middle-income Americans.
• Dividends: The most income at the least risk
  Jan 18, 2009 — CNN
  No wonder "investors have lost confidence in the dividend-paying ability of this sector," says Mike Reckmeyer, co-manager of Vanguard Equity Income. Either way, says Valliere, the higher dividend tax rate is unlikely to radically remake the landscape for income investors. True, REIT dividends are taxed as ordinary income.