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...head for the past 240 excruciating minutes:$4.25.That, minus taxes, was how much I was being paid for each hour of increasing delirium and dehydration. No benefits, no breaks, and no entertainment. Worst of all, I had just stumbled upon this unpleasant new figure by receiving my first paycheck for two weeks of blissfully ignorant labor. You see, friends, the federal minimum wage was $5.15, and the wage I had been promised was a full $6.00. $4.25 was neither of these. But alas! The worst part of this predicament was that I was stuck, unless I was willing to fritter...
...accept. India's Sensex has fallen 45% from its peak in January; the Goyal family's net worth, built over years, has been decimated in weeks. From $12,000, their portfolio is down to $4,000 - a loss that totals more than half of Sandeep's annual paycheck from his job with a U.S.-based company. Leaving the room, the father fires a Parthian shot: "It's not good to be greedy," he says...
...time when Barack was offered a chance to abandon politics and take a job as head of a foundation: "The job offered much-needed financial security, a point Michelle was pushing. This was also a pattern in their marriage - she playing the role of the industrious, paycheck-retrieving ant, he the role of the devil-may-car grasshopper. Unafraid of plastic, he had a habit of putting professional expenses on his credit card and neglecting to file for reimbursement...
...Around the corner, dozens of people - many of them current and former Agriprocessors employeers - lined up for free canned and packaged goods at Postville's weekly food pantry. "I haven't seen a paycheck over $100 and it's my fifth week," says Darrell Hawkins, 46, a former forklift operator from Kentucky now working a "gutter" at Agriprocessors. (He removes turkey giblets.) A company spokesman, in an interview last week, vigorously denied any wrongdoing. Agriprocessors says it did not knowingly hire illegal immigrants or underage workers, claiming that minors had lied about their age to get jobs. And the company...
...American Dream and Irish Blarney, calling out the wife who leaves him "breathless and speechless at the same time," his kids, his mom, Catherine Eugenia Finnegan Biden. He aimed directly at the fears and frustrations and pride of the working class, who know that work is "more than a paycheck. It's dignity. It's respect. It's about whether you can look your children in the eye and say, 'We're going...