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...local Elektra [a chain store that provides low-cost banking]". His modest wage shows how many cartel foot soldiers such as Cobo live a world apart from the extravagant kingpins with their million-dollar mansions and fleets of luxury cars, but it was still five times the country's minimum wage. And it's the swelling of the narco armies with tens of thousands of low-paid recruits that helps explain the scale of the bloodshed here, with more than 5,300 drug-related killings over the past year alone...
...grimmer and grimmer statistics that seem to portray an economy in free fall. China will have its hard landing in 2009, and even the most optimistic economists now concede that GDP growth will be far below the 8% annual pace that Chinese economists and officials generally regard as the minimum necessary for the preservation of social order, possibly hitting 5% or under...
...became the first Latina elected to the California state senate, where she successfully pushed through legislation to increase the minimum wage from $4.25 to $5.75 an hour...
...winter getaway means getting away from winter, head to the nearest Sandals, which just won the World Travel Award for best all-inclusive resort. Rates are now 55% off at Caribbean resorts, including Jamaica, St. Lucia, Antigua and the Bahamas, if you book a "Luxury Included" vacation with a minimum of a three-night stay. If you book seven nights, you can get up to two nights free. Rates start at $183 per person per night. Book now through Jan. 16, 2009, excluding stays from Dec. 27 to 31. 888-SANDALS...
FICA is, in effect, a tax on job creation. It applies to the very first dollar earned by a minimum-wage worker, but most of it tops out at an annual income of about $100,000 and doesn't apply at all to income from investments. For most Americans holding jobs, FICA now takes a bigger chunk of their income than the income tax itself. And yet it rarely enjoys the tender concern of tax-cutting Republicans, who prefer to concentrate on tax breaks for capital gains. Cutting the FICA tax in half, for workers and for employers, would make...