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...Missing the Target The disabled have lots of buying power and rely heavily on computers and the Internet. So why does it take a court case to get Target to make its website accessible to the blind...
...retail workers have fallen 18% since 1975. But David Vite, president of the Illinois Retail Merchants Association, says the law could deter inner-city economic development. "Companies affected by this ordinance have capital budgets they can spend anywhere in the U.S.," Vite says, "and they'll now go elsewhere." Target, for one, has announced its postponement of plans for a previously announced store...
...fights like this, retailers use the exit threat, then stay and expand," says Annette Bernhardt, a labor expert at New York University Law School. One of Target's most successful units is in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood, and studies suggest there's $1.3 billion in untapped spending on the city's North Side and West Side alone. That, says Dorian Warren, a politics professor at Columbia University, "is going to be worth far more than the $10 wage costs them...
...been David Coss, mayor of Santa Fe, N.M., which mandated a living wage in 2004. "We were also told the sky was going to fall," he says, "but all we've seen is strong growth." With the city's $9.50 wage floor set to rise to $10.50 in 2008, Target and Sam's Club are thriving. Wal-Mart is even building a superstore. "You're going to see more and more municipalities taking matters into their own hands," Coss says. "Poverty just isn't a necessary ingredient for economic development...
...biggest knock on income annuities is that once you've forked over a pile of cash, it's gone forever. So don't spend all your savings on one; 25% is a good target. In some cases, you can recover all or part of what you paid for an annuity. J.G. Wentworth, based in Bryn Mawr, Pa., offers a lump sum to take over your income stream. If you bought an annuity for $100,000 and changed your mind the next day, you could get back about $95,000. "Our typical customer has unexpected medical bills or some other sudden...