Tucson Electric Power and Cox Communications: Tucson Electric Power and Cox Communications will sponsor Step Up to Justiceβs volunteer appreciation event. The event, held in conjunction with the American Bar Associationβs National Celebration of Pro Bono, will highlight the talents and contributions of the more than 265 attorneys who volunteer with Step Up to Justice to provide free civil legal services to low-income families in Pima County. Since 2017, Step Up to Justiceβs volunteers have donated over $8.5 million in free legal assistance to the greater Tucson community.
University of Arizona Sorority Alpha Chi Omega: Alpha Chi Omega sorority members at the University of Arizona have raised more than $33,000 for Emerge Center Against Domestic Abuse. The efforts are part of a 20-year partnership with Emerge, resulting in a total of $200,000 in support. Alpha Chi has also invested time and energy into raising awareness about dating violence and other forms of gender-based violence among their members and other students on the UA campus.
Goodwill Industries of Southern Arizona: Goodwill Industries of Southern Arizona has partnered with Rotary Club of Tucson Sunrise and Rotary Club of Bali Ubud Sunset to provide yarn to Balinese women in the Sewing for Living program. Sewing for Living began in 2019 to teach women sewing machine and crochet skills, creating work from home opportunities.
Working with the Rotary Club of Tucson Sunrise, Goodwill Industries of Southern Arizona has provided hundreds of skeins of yarn to Sewing for Living to expand the program to also teach school children in rural areas of Bali to crochet. The expansion also creates an opportunity to work with dementia patients in local hospitals, rolling the skeins to practice their fine motor skills and benefit from group socialization.
The skeins of yarn are mainly used to make hats, bags and toy animals, which are priced individually and sold at local markets or shipped around the world to support communities and culture.
A recent report reveals how much people in different states need to earn to save a spot in the 'top one percent club' in the United States. A study conducted by SmartAsset, recorded on the basis of IRS tax return data revealed Connecticut as the most earning state in the US. Median household income in the US stood at $75,000 per year but in most states, a person has to make ten times that figure, close to $787,712, to be placed in the top one percent. Connecticut, Massachusetts, and California took the top three places on the list, with a minimum of $1.15 million, $1.11 million, and $1.04 million, respectively. Washington, assumed to be the first, stood fourth on the table with an income floor of $989,649, among the top one percent earners. New Jersey, New York, Colorado, Florida, Wyoming, and New Hampshire, all had a place in the top ten of the highest one percent earners in the country. On the other hand, the last place was secured by West Virginia with $420,453 and Mississippi stood second-last with $440,744 as the income floor for the top 1% of the earners.
