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...interest rates and mortgage rates, record high productivity, record high homeownership, booming home values and low inflation. Why, even the unemployment rate, the traditional measure of the job market, is significantly below the average for the past three decades. Nonetheless, the burning political issue is job creation, a thin slice of the economic picture, which in turn is but one slice of the country's overall well-being - and almost entirely outside a President's control. Bizarrely, that number, and the rhetoric it generates, will have an unprecedented effect on who gets to be President - in other words, who gets...
Serving size: One slice...
Next door to Schaps' Illinois shop, another starch purveyor has launched a counteroffensive. The Homemade Pizza Co. is whetting local interest with reformulated, reduced-carb pies. The shop claims to slice 40% off the carb load by replacing white flour with whole wheat and eliminating sugar from the dough. But those modifications surely won't cut it for some. Bearno's pizza chain, based in Louisville, Ky., is finding a ravenous market for entirely crustless creations that feature a base of mozzarella cheese to support the sauce and toppings. "It's pretty flimsy," admits managing partner Robert Mooney...
According to project chairs, another upcoming fundraiser will be a letter-writing party, which is planned for early May. Each attendee will have to solicit at least four potential donors to the Habitat project. A free slice of pizza will be given out for each contact...
...effectiveness and availability of medical care. In maintaining a filibuster, Senate Democrats are turning away from the interests of the people and instead submitting to the demands of lawyers, who stand to lose out twice if the bill passes. Lawyers will be allowed to take a comparatively smaller slice of a reduced pie: Not only would the bill impose absolute caps on the amount of money paid out, it would also limit the percentage of those damages that attorneys are allowed to claim. According to a study released by the Employment Policy Foundation, lawyers see an astounding 52 percent...