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...from both models and employees, Charney turned his business into a successful retailer and wholesaler that provided styles for all ages and sizes. Apart from making comfortable and colorful clothes, American Apparel distinguishes itself as a “non-sweatshop” producer, pays its employees an average wage of $12 an hour, and is actively campaigning for immigration reform. In 2007, it posted sales of around $387 million, and it has opened 33 new retail locations in the third quarter of this year alone.Charney’s successful—albeit possibly sleazy—altruism...
...more importantly, the fact that McCain apparently mistook Wurzelbacher's desired salary of $250,000 for his current salary, which the plumber says is far less. Which of course begs the question: How much do plumbers actually make? The standard assumption is that they earn a pretty decent wage. Americans want and need working pipes, just like they want and need their trash collected every few days - sanitation being another service always in demand by consumers and not always in demand by job-seekers, and typically pretty well paying as a result...
...factoring in some $705 billion in interest payments in recognition of the fact that the war is being funded with borrowed money. (Nations typically increase taxes in order to finance protracted military conflicts; the Bush Administration, having cut taxes, has had to rely on the credit of others to wage its wars.) The current credit crisis and economic slowdown will considerably raise the pressure on the U.S. national debt, which had already grown from around $6 trillion in 2001 to near $10 trillion today...
...unsuccessfully sued the state of California, claiming that it should be exempted from minimum wage laws because paying its workers more would require the group to reduce headcount and would make its workers less sympathetic to the poor. (ACORN publicly supports the living wage and has led coalitions to win minimum wage increases in several states...
...Some union leaders say the problems are actually self-made and have little to do with the financial crisis. They say company managers misjudged the market and want wage hikes above the rate of inflation in Germany to give families enough money to buy cars and other products and so boost the domestic economy...