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...York Cheating the Poorest Low-income workers regularly earn less than minimum wage and are often denied proper overtime pay, according to one of the largest recent studies of wage-law violations. Interviews with nearly 4,400 people in sectors such as retail and child care found that on average, workers did not receive 15% of their rightful pay. Employees injured on the job also reported widespread pressure not to file for workers' compensation...
...worst thing that will ever happen to him is when he and I meet in the room and I close the door.' ROBERT BENMOSCHE, the new CEO of AIG, referring last month in a closed-door meeting to New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo, who recently pressed Congress to release the names of the AIG employees receiving retention bonuses...
...After a certain amount of arm-twisting by Republican leaders, [South Carolina Congressman Joe] Wilson did apologize for his behavior,” wrote New York Times columnist Gail Collins in her column last Friday. “Now we are going to move on to arguing about the apology...
...individual. Recently, officials have worked to make the program more convenient, distributing electronic benefit-card readers to farmers' markets so food stamps can be used there and encouraging more stores to accept them as payment (Costco announced this year it will take food stamps at some New York City stores on a temporary basis). As an experiment, CNN reporter Sean Callebs spent the month of February relying on food stamps. Spending $176 - the maximum amount awarded by the state of Louisiana, where he lives - Callebs found that he could buy enough food, but only if he avoided snacks and most...
...necessity can make history obsolete. As proof, the Obama Administration has launched a full-court press to win Shelby's support for its financial-reform proposals, which the President will push Sept. 14 in a noon speech at Federal Hall on New York City's Wall Street. "We are in almost daily contact with [Shelby's] staff and have been going over the proposal with them literally line by line," says a senior Treasury department official. Shelby and the Senate Banking chair, Democrat Chris Dodd, have also been working together closely. "[Shelby's] folks are deeply engaged and we share...