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Income Inequality Is At An All-Time High: STUDYIncome inequality in the United States is at an all-time high, surpassing even levels seen during the Great Depression, according to a recently updated paper by University of California, Berkeley Professor Emmanuel Saez. The paper, which covers data through 2007, points to a staggering, ...
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Why Is Campbell Soup Interested In Cap-And-Trade? | The New RepublicAt issue are the free "allowances," or carbon dioxide pollution permits that the House-passed climate bill would give to manufacturers that use a lot of energy to produce internationally traded products, like steel and aluminum. Those energy-intensive industries fighting international ...
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A wealthier India and China - good for world's innovatorst may not feel that way right now, but the past 10 years may go down in world history as a big success. That idea may be hard to accept in the Competitive economies of the world More on Financial crisis Trade-friendly economies US. After all, it was the decade of 9/11, the wars in Iraq and ...
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Drug-resistant infections lurk in meat we eat - Infectious diseases- msnbc.comRuss Kremer, shown with one of his free-roaming pigs on his farm in Frankenstein, Mo., was gored by the tusk of a boar and got a strep infection that didn't heal even after two months of multiple antibiotics. The answer was flowing in the veins of the boar. The animal had been fed low doses of ...
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Career Watch: A professor challenges the conventional wisdom on offshoringAs a serious researcher of the outsourcing phenomenon, you have taken to warning that outsourcing has grave implications for the well-being of the nation. Could you elaborate? Standard economic theory tells us that offshoring could be good or it could be bad for the American economy and standard ...
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U.S. moves to strengthen H-1B enforcementU.S. immigration officials are taking H-1B enforcement from the desk to the field with a plan to conduct 25,000 on-site inspections of companies hiring foreign workers during the government's current fiscal year. That would mark a nearly fivefold increase in inspections over the previous year, ...
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Furniture Work Shifts From N.C. To South China : NPRBill Curtis watched his job slip away piece by piece. He spent his adult life cutting cloth for sofas at Broyhill Furniture in Lenoir, a town in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Over time, Curtis noticed more cloth arriving at his factory from overseas. Then, ...
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WTO Says China Unfairly Restricting U.S. Music, Films : NPRA Lebanese man who hosted a popular TV show where he gave callers advice and sometimes predicted the future was sentenced to death by a court in Saudi Arabia last month. His charge? Sorcery. Ali Hussain Sibat's popular call-in show was broadcast on a satellite TV channel in Arabic around the ...
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The Cult of GDP - Politics and BusinessThe Cult of GDP
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Cities roll up pavement, lay gravel - Life- msnbc.comEver since the invention of the automobile, paved roads have meant progress. Now some cash-strapped towns and counties are finding progress too expensive, and they are tearing up battered roads and putting down gravel. The high price of pavement and the sour economy have driven municipalities ...
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