Word: perring
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...Another pillar of the budget’s fiscal reforms proposes to eliminate federal subsidies to farmers with sales revenues in excess of $500,000 per year and cap total individual subsidies for farmers at $250,000. Combined with other agricultural subsidy cuts, this would reduce farm subsidy expenditures by about $2 billion annually. This potential savings would be a boon for taxpayers. Furthermore, the inefficient subsidies currently create a price floor—a minimum price above market equilibrium—which artificially inflates prices, hurting American consumers...
...sell it for more than $145,000. Her debt is actually two loans, the larger of which was recently modified from an adjustable rate to a fixed-rate note at 9% interest. The second loan charges over 10%, and the two payments combined are slightly more than $1,400 per month. (Read: "How Stressed Is Your Bank...
...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...
...much closer than you would believe. The whole idea of that book was to explain to the general public how music works. My inspiration for the book grew out of a show called “What Makes It Great,” in which I had 15 minutes per week to explain 15 seconds of music. The show was an attempt to talk about music in an extremely non-technical way and to change the way Americans listened.THC: You are bringing “Green Eggs and Hamadeus,” a musical that pairs Dr. Seuss?...
...treatment. She can access a wealth of knowledge beyond the horizon fortune has aligned for her. But how much does it really help? Lately, efforts to bring computers to youth in developing areas have been assaulted as ineffective, or even worse—impulsively imperialistic. Last month, One Laptop per Child—an NGO aiming to provide a $150 laptop to very child in the world—suffered major production setbacks, laid off half of its employees, and came under heavy fire for supposedly misjudging the needs of youth in the developing world from the get-go. Talking...