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...Finance Ministry did not change of its own accord. Likud Party lawmaker Avraham Hirshson and his aide Michael Handelsman went to Israel's Supreme Court to force the government to pay survivors the same amount as Germany. The court ordered a 24% hike in payments. "They've always treated survivors as nothing more than a nuisance," says Handelsman. Even now, getting money can be expensive. Pinto insists that people don't need a lawyer to make a claim, but many hire one to cut through the bureaucracy. The lawyers typically take a commission equal to six months of compensation payments...
...implemented, the recommendations will result in a significant pay hike for both directly employed and subcontracted employees...
...budget needs more revenue, you could always add 50 cents to the subway/bus fare, or hike the tax on parking garages - some New Yorkers will pay anything for a luxury. And something might be done with the tolls. But that's for the bean counters. Banning parking would rev all the economic engines that the city runs on, and eliminate the real source of economic dead weight, namely private-vehicle owners who are just waiting for an excuse to get out of town for the weekend anyway...
...Durable goods orders - a handy indicator not only for consumers? long-term confidence but also for the capital-spending mindset of manufacturers - fell 4.8 percent overall in November. But that's but a small piece of October's 12.5 percent hike, and when you take out declining defense orders (the war is slowing down a bit) domestic-front orders of heavy equipment, appliances, and the like were up 2.7 percent. And even the manufacturing-gauging Chicago Purchasing Managers Index edged up a smidge to 41.4 from 41.1. That's two straight months of rising PMI and non-defense durables orders...
...implemented, the recommendations will result in a significant pay hike for both directly employed and subcontracted employees...