Good News: Wealth Up! Bad News: Not for You!

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Dallas  Figures released by the Federal Reserve indicate that citizen wealth by some indices is recovering almost to pre-recession levels.  According to the Wall Street Journal: The net worth of U.S. households and nonprofit organizations—the values of homes, stocks and other assets minus debts and other liabilities—rose 2.6%, or about $1.9 trillion, in the third …

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Fast Food Tradeoff: Less Jobs for Living Wages

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New Orleans   In the national publicity one-day strikes for higher wages of $15 per hour that waved their banners in hundreds of cities around the country, no one really believes that the $15 per hour figure is anything other than a rallying cry or in bargaining terms, a first proposal.   Organizers, including with the Service …

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