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New Laws in 2016 Show States Are Diverging on Guns, Voting
NEWSMAX | Friday, 01 Jan 2016 11:33 AM Laws taking effect at the start of the new year show states diverging on some hot-button issues. Restrictions on carrying guns eased
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The Most Surprising Thing About Today’s Jobs Report
Zero Hedge | Tyler Durden | 11/06/2015 14:39 -0500 After several months of weak and deteriorating payrolls prints, perhaps the biggest tell today’s job number would surprise massively to the upside came yesterday
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Goodbye American middle class: New report reveals that 62 percent of Americans earn $20 or less per hour. Household income stuck in neutral for a generation
Source: My Budget 360 The latest figures from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) reveals that 62 percent of Americans earn $20 or less per hour. And this only
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Hand-to-mouth nation: Roughly 40 percent of US households living paycheck to paycheck but two thirds of these families are not considered poor by economic definitions
Source: My Budget 360 People have a hard time believing that in the wealthiest country in the world, we have close to half of our population living hand-to-mouth bouncing from
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A land of low-wage jobs: For every job that pays above the low-wage threshold of $15 an hour you have 7 job-seekers. 51.4 million low-wage jobs in U.S.
Source: My Budget 360 The Great Recession has only accelerated deeper structural changes to our economy when it comes to low-wage employment. While many good paying jobs were lost during
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