Word: worker
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...beginning of the bill, the authors write: "Since 2001, as worker productivity went up, 96% of the income growth in this country went to the wealthiest 10% of society. While they were benefiting from record high worker productivity, the remaining 90% of Americans were struggling to sustain their standard of living. They sustained it by borrowing ... and borrowing ... and borrowing, and when they couldn't borrow anymore, the bottom fell...
...particularly ambitious person, believe it or not, and I am certainly not a driven person. I am a hard worker -I was always told by my parents that luck was the residue of hard work." -Change Nation podcast...
...Jerusalem-born pediatrician and a psychiatric social worker, Emanuel grew up in the Chicago suburb of Wilmette. His is a high-achieving family: one brother, Ari, is a renowned Hollywood agent who inspired a character on the television series Entourage. His other brother, Ezekiel, is an influential bioethicist who will advise the Obama Administration on health policy...
Geithner could lower his bill if he or his wife worked regularly from home. Geithner's wife Carole is a clinical social worker. If she saw patients in her home during the past year, tax experts say the Geithners could reasonably claim that at least 500 sq. ft. (45 sq m) of their 2,500-sq.-ft. (230 sq m) home was devoted to Carole's business. That would allow the couple to write off 20% of the upkeep and utilities expenses as well as local property taxes. (See TIME's bailout report card...
...lawn accusing me of being a traitor to my race. (And I was once asked by an older couple who nevertheless assured me they were voting Democrat whether I was the “right color for that job” when I announced myself as an Obama campaign worker.) But for most people, questions about religion or race were largely overshadowed by economic considerations...