Word: labors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...business climate. The Federal Government has created a simple retirement plan designed for small businesses, the financial industry has begun to use the Internet to help companies administer their plans, and there is a growing recognition by managers that offering retirement benefits is key to recruiting in a tight labor market...
...general, though, it's still difficult to estimate just how much a retirement plan will cost a business, according to the Department of Labor, because of the many variables involved. The department is working on a website, scheduled to go online in October, that will help businesses estimate expenses under various plans...
...urges all who are interested in Geronimo's case and the fight for Black liberation to join with the SYC, PDC and Labor Black League in defense of Geronimo...
Throw another burger on the grill, Martha. Just in time for Labor Day, some surprisingly good labor news sent Wall Street traders off to the Hamptons happy. After spending a glum week worried that a string of less-than-positive economic numbers would spook the Federal Reserve into yet another rate hike in October, traders were wishing and hoping that the August unemployment numbers would show that inflationary pressures had already been brought to heel. The news was even better than they hoped: Unemployment was down, but not too much, and hourly wages were up, but by just pennies...
...course, much of the ballooning income gap is a product of compensation packages based on stock options translated into improbable wealth by the dizzy Dow, which could always tank and provide a dose of schadenfreude to those mired in class resentment. But no amount of carping by labor over the widening chasm between the earnings of the fat cats and the paycheck of the working stiff is likely to change the equation. Shaming the wealthy may be a longstanding pastime in Europe, but nobody apologizes for being rich in America...