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• Student Labor Offers Fine Living For Less
CINCINNATI - Even when money’s tight, you can find cheaper options to keep living well. You can dine in style, look good doing it and drive away in a smooth-running vehicle by relying on students. “It is the best deal in town,” said Debbie ...
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As Congress investigates the causes and effects of the financial meltdown, the House Education and Labor Committee was hearing from retirement savings and budget analysts on how the housing, credit and other financial troubles have battered pensions ...
• Some schools use local farms for healthy menus
Many schools do not have the kitchen facilities or skilled labor needed to provide more than heat-and-serve meals. "Schools often don't see food or cafeterias as a major investment," said Anupama Joshi, co-director of the national Farm To School ...
• Unions stand to gain from proposed legislation
... union so nurses at the facility could have more say about patient care. She figured the nurses there were on their way to forming one after more than 50 percent of the workers signed union cards. Organizers filed a petition with the National Labor ...
• Jobs: Slammed by Gustav, Ike, and Boeing
Hurricanes Gustav and Ike, as well as the Boeing (BA) strike, will conspire with an already-deteriorating labor market to depress U.S. payrolls in the September employment report, scheduled for release on Oct. 3, raising the risk of an outsize drop ...