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...bend lamp posts, scale high walls - don't always outweighs its liabilities. The food supply he needs is hard to find in the local market. So, as you walk unawares into a hospital room, you might find a man in a collar and cassock supine on the floor, sucking the blood from a patient's IV bottle. (Read "Zombies Are the New Vampires...
Next up for Ingalls' house in upstate New York: more floor work in the foyer, as well as granite-topped counters in the kitchen. That means another trip back to Craigslist. "There's no reason to think that I won't get the same results I did the first time," he says. "Approaching a project in this way and in this economy definitely tips the scales in a consumer's favor. And I'm more than happy to take advantage...
...Republican Mike Enzi of Wyoming and Olympia Snowe of Maine) - are weeks behind schedule and are rushing to finish a bill before recess. But even if they're successful, the leadership would still need time to marry the HELP and finance bills together plus at least two weeks of floor debate before they could pass a final version - a process now bumped until September at the earliest. (Read "Obama's Health Push: Too Few Details, Too Many Questions...
...Supreme Court had struck down a Washington, D.C., minimum-wage law, finding it impeded a worker's right to set his own price for his labor. The first federal minimum-wage law, the Fair Labor Standards Act, passed in 1938, with a 25-cent-per-hour wage floor and a 44-hour workweek ceiling for most employees. (It also banned child labor.) Outside of Social Security, said Roosevelt, the law was "the most far-sighted program for the benefit of workers ever adopted." Wages must ensure a "minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency and general well-being...
...slightly faster than in Pennsylvania, where the minimum wage did not change. (The law's effects showed up, instead, in prices: the tab at New Jersey fast-food restaurants grew about 4% faster than at greasy spoons in Pennsylvania.) Instead of killing jobs, minimum wage supporters argue, the wage floor increases productivity and boosts consumer purchasing power. The Economic Policy Institute estimates that the July 24 hike to $7.25 will, over the course of the next year, pad consumer spending by more than $5.5 billion. (See the 10 worst fast food meals...