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Sep 27 2006
Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Millionaires are so last
millennium. The new Forbes 400 list of richest Americans is billionaires
only.
If you're net worth is a mere...
Sep 23 2006
The Vancouver Sun
A federal report that revealed Greater Vancouver has the highest proportion of working poor in the country stunned many people earlier this month.
In response, economists of various...
Sep 12 2006
Roll Call, Inc.
Correction Appended
Former Rep. Bob Edgar (D-Pa.) likes to think of himself as a real-life Forrest Gump.
...
Sep 4 2006
Napa Valley Register
This Labor Day, we should commend Gov. Schwarzenegger for
supporting an increase of the state minimum wage from $6.75 to $8 an hour by
2008. Wealth and income inequalities have reached levels not experienced in California...
Aug 13 2006
Charleston Gazette
Earlier this summer,
billionaire business leader Warren Buffett gave the nation a welcome and all too
rare example of old fashioned civic virtue. After arranging to contribute more
than $37...
Jul 29 2006
The honolulu Star-Bulletin
"All religions believe in justice for working people," the Rev. Paul Sherry told the audience at a recent Honolulu church service.
The nationally prominent Protestant minister quoted...
Jul 13 2006
Washington, D.C., North Carolina and Pennsylvania are the latest states in a growing
movement to raise the minimum wage for working Americans. Today, North Carolina
Governor Mike Easley signed...
Jul 9 2006
CBS Evening News
At a church in Washington, hundreds of committed Christians met recently and tried to map out a strategy to get their values into the political debate.
But these are not the...
But these are not the...
Jul 5 2006
Capitolwire.com
Once the House voted for the minimum wage bill, I became convinced the minimum wage hike was going to pass before the Legislature adjourned for the summer.
It wasn’t the fact...
