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Is Now The Time For A Pay Raise?
After much debate and even more delay, the minimum amount for workers to be paid has risen 70 cents to $7.25 an hour. According to Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, between 3 million and 5 million people will be affected by the minimum wage rise from $6.55 per hour to $7.25 per hour. Those workers…
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I Think I'll Stay In Mexico
Mexican immigration to the United States has been on a steady decline since 2005, according to a study released by the Pew Hispanic Center. Figures the decline would start in 2005. That is the year George W. Bush was sworn into his second term as president. I’d be nervous to move into any country that…
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A Funeral Is Now A Privilege, Not A Right
So it seems out in LA County a growing number of families are leaving their recently deceased relatives out to dry – or in this case, rot and fester. The Los Angeles Times reports that the weak economy has led to a growing number of families leaving their loved ones unclaimed at the morgue. The…
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Has The Economy Helped Gang Recruitment?
According to a new national survey released late last week, most Americans believe that the economy has resulted in more gang violence. Of the adults interviewed by Harris Interactive, 71 percent said gang violence among youth is increasing as a result of the current economic climate. Harris Interactive interviewed 1,022 adults ages 18 and above…
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Don't Believe The Hype?
In two months 65% of all filers for unemployment insurance will have run out of their standard 26 weeks. That means a total of 4.4 million people will have exhausted their basic benefits. Although some may be able to receive an additional year of unemployed benefits, traditionally the Labor Department doesn’t track anyone that has…
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Can Suze Orman's Advice Save You?
In 2007 Suze Orman warned us that a financial meltdown was on the horizon. Not many took heed to her warning, and as a result those who spent far too long living beyond their means found themselves hit the hardest when the economy went sour. Indeed, many Americans who played a little too much with…
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Staying Fit on a Fixed Budget
With respect to the health economists over at Yale University who conducted this study, finding out being jobless could make people with already bad habits exacerbate their problems is like being told smoking is domestic violence against your body. It’s pretty much a given at this point, no? Nevertheless, according to their report while lay-offs…
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Why Have My White Classmates Had It Easier?
Recently, I wrote an entry advising those who constantly complain about their job to be grateful to be gainfully employed. While I still agree with that sentiment overall, one letter sent in by a reader reminded me that the frustration many workers deal with on a daily basis can sometimes be too overbearing. Her words…
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Where Are The Jobs?
Have you considered relocating in lieu of the job crunch? If so, you might want to pack your life up and haul yourself over to the Washington D.C. “urea.” According to a report by Indeed.com, the nation’s capital had 133 postings per 1,000 residents in the second quarter of 2009. Indeed.com is a broad job…
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Hate Your Job? Too Bad!
Anyone else find themselves on the receiving end of angry vent sessions fueled by work-related frustration? From rants about annoying bosses to jokes that they’re going to need bail money once they explode in the office, I hear more people shouting, “I hate my job!” with each passing day. Indeed, according to a survey from…
