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...search continues. "It takes $14 per hour for me to meet my bills," she said. "That's what I was making at Gateway when I was laid off. But no one wants to pay that much, so I will be starting lower and hoping for a raise. That's how it works. You just keep starting over." A few months back, Stevens had a lead on a customer service job with a large, venerable company. The pay wasn't great; the commute was long; gas prices were high - yet Stevens had just about concluded it was the best she could...
...Their bitterness stems from a feeling that they've held up their end of the social contract, but now the terms of the deal have been rewritten by malign forces. "It's a different world and a different time," Stevens said ruefully. "Even if you work hard you get laid off." Zachery put it this way: "It's not the United States anymore. Those at the top have sold out the bottom for money...
Read TIME's Q&A: What to Do If You Get Laid...
...known to speak warmly of his love for the Milwaukee Brewers during his homespun homilies and has a penchant for whiskey and beer (typically Miller), he's a devoted, albeit genial, enforcer of Rome's conservative ideologies. On matters of doctrine, Dolan adheres to the course laid out firmly by Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI - one that includes unflinching support for policies concerning priestly celibacy, abortion, birth control, divorce and gay marriage. (See pictures of Pope Benedict XVI visiting America...
...going to be a bill that the Executive Branch drafts in isolation and then tries to ram down the throats of Congress. Instead, Congress - particularly a working group convened by longtime health-care-reform advocate Senator Edward M. Kennedy - is working on a consensus solution following the road map laid out by Obama. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...