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...Candidates endorsed by Log Cabin Republicans, a GOP gay-rights lobby, have come under fire from noted anti-gay campaigners, including Houston physician Steven Hotze, whose political action committee sent out a last-minute anti-Parker flyer. Hotze is also reported to have pressured statewide Republican judicial candidates to back away from endorsements from gay groups or face primary opposition. (Hutchison has won some praise in the past from Log Cabin Republicans for her support for hate-crimes legislation.) (See a pictorial history of the struggle for gay rights...
...study, conducted by two Ivy League economists, looked at single women who had been coaxed into working outside the home by the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and what activities they had cut back on when they started doing paid work. By examining time-allocation studies from 1975 to 2004, the researchers found that single mothers who joined the workforce reported spending the same amount of time with their children, and only a little less time on leisure activities or sleep. The women made up most of the time - more than two-thirds of it - by doing less work around...
...1980s and 1990s, there was a series of policy reforms aimed at trying to get single mothers on welfare back into the workforce," says Alexander Gelber, an associate professor of business and public policy at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania; he co-authored the study with Harvard doctoral fellow Joshua Mitchell. "There was a perception that these mothers were idle and it would be good to get them to be productive. Our study suggests they have traded one kind of productive activity for another." The EITC encouraged low-income women to enter the paid workforce partly...
...McWilliam, founder and CEO of Upper Deck. "We look forward to his eventual return to the PGA Tour." Upper Deck, which has created Tiger Woods trading cards and collectibles like a Tiger Woods bobble head, has an exclusive licensing agreement with Woods. Upper Deck has no good reason to back out of the arrangement. If Woods catches fire again, the company's Woods items should fly off the shelves. (See the top 10 scandals...
...Nike Without a doubt, the swoosh will stand by Woods. Nike has backed Woods since his 1996 professional debut and reportedly pays him $30 million per year. "I think he has been really great," Nike chairman Phil Knight told the Sports Business Journal this week. "When his career is over, you'll look back on these indiscretions as a minor blip, but the media is making a big deal out of it right now." Woods' sexcapades and subsequent absence from the Tour might not hurt Nike's $650 million golf business as much as you think. Golf accounts for less...