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...never thought I'd be agreeing with Republican Senator Richard Shelby from Alabama, but my assessment of the current bank bailout conforms with his response: No! Invest in infrastructure, home weatherization, worker-retraining, green-collar jobs and whatever will move us away from our oil addiction. Rather than doubling down on our already obscene national debt, we should face up to letting the chips fall and reorganizing our lives and economy around a sustainable paradigm. Bruce Garver, Murrieta, California...
...recent weeks have those concerns started to translate to Main Street: retailers stocking less for Christmas, fears that companies won't make payroll. Though some of the direr projections of where the credit crunch may lead are unlikely, the effects are nonetheless filtering down to the average consumer and worker. (See the 10 steps to the financial meltdown here...
...that gap narrowing to the point of obscurity? Actually, no. The Russell Sage Foundation published the most authoritative work on the gender wage gap in 2006, The Declining Significance of Gender?. In the book, Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn, both Cornell economists, show that the average full-time female worker in the U.S. earns about 79% of what the average full-time male worker makes. Women employed full-time actually tend to have slightly more education than men, but women are still more likely to work in clerical and service jobs. Blau and Kahn say women do make different choices...
...Ingersoll] is an incredibly hard worker and serves as an incredible leader in practices,” McKinley said. “She is always pushing herself to her limits when she trains...
...cooked by dipping raw ingredients, primarily vegetables and thinly sliced beef, into a simmering metal pot of stock placed at the center of each table. Having first met in 1990 at Montien—a Thai restaurant in Boston’s Theater District where Lymswam was a kitchen worker and Kordsomboon was a chef—the partners bought the restaurant four years later and went on to open up the two popular restaurants in Harvard Square. Kordsomboon started out as a teenage chef in Thailand, cooking at restaurants across the country and quickly mastering the tastes and recipes...