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States Struggling: Budget Crises Lead to Desperate Measures
If you thought your wallet was feeling light, it's not just you — states are feeling the budget crunch just as hard — with unique ways to manage the money meltdown.
In California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has just threatened to pay state employees federal minimum wage in an effort to push lawmakers to agree on a budget.
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What Was Your Worst Summer Job?
Before we all get the fabulous jobs that express our personalities and true abilities — we often have to suck it up in crap jobs.
Yes, they help us build character. Yes, we learn how to budget small amounts of money, learning the valuable fiscal lesson that no amount of saving will buy us a trip to Paris and allow us to purchase our dream wardrobes on a part-time, minimum-wage salary.
Child Slavery in the US? Wealthy Immigrants Bring "Hired" Help
Well, this is just great. Behind the gated and planned communities of Southern California housewives aren't just employing children as drug dealers, they're smuggling children into the US to work.
As affluent immigrants move here from Africa, where the rich think nothing of employing children for little to no money, many bring children with them to employ for meager wages ($30-per-month meager).
Briefing Book! Knowing Is Half the Battle . . .
- Pollution: Is this for real? George W. Bush bids farewell to G8 saying "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."
Briefing Book! Knowing Is Half the Battle . . .
- Abortion: No consensus? Parliament vote to reject late-term abortion limits divides Britain's newspapers. —newsblog
- Obama: Clinton helped Obama?
US Citizenship Requests Down; Price of Wall Up $400 Million
Barriers — financial and physical — could influence the makeup of newly naturalized Americans. After citizen application rates rose 70 percent, from $440 to $675, half as many people have applied for US citizenship in the beginning of this year compared to last year.
To become eligible for citizenship, a person must be a legal permanent resident who has lived continuously in the US for 5 years.
You Asked: How Do I Kick My Roommate Out?
Dear Sugar,
My roommate moved to Seattle (my town) from Indiana at the end of June after I had secured a lease on an apartment. We had never met before, except online through a mutual hobby. She moved in time to go to an interview for a job she did not end up getting.
Don't Call It Do Nothing Congress! Passed 1,900 Symbolic Bills
Congress is on track to pass the least amount of public laws than any other Congress in the two decades of record keeping. So far, the 110th Congress has 294 laws to its name. On the other hand, the House and Senate have passed 1,900 symbolic resolutions.
Pelosi Talks About Impeachment and Her Do-Nothing Congress
The first female Speaker of the House has just released a book, Know Your Power: A Message to American Daughters, in which she encourages America women to make their voices heard. Making her voice heard on the new-book-media tour, Pelosi appeared on The View last week to explain that impeachment was off the table because there is no evidence that Bush committed a crime and in this week's Time, readers asked Pelosi ten questions. Here's what the eleven-term Congresswomen from San Francisco had to say about the topics on Americans' minds.
Briefing Book! Knowing Is Half the Battle . . .
- Iran: Will you watch the whole thing tonight? Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tells Brian Williams that his government is not working to make a nuclear bomb. — MSNBC
- Novak: Robert Novak has been diagnosed with a brain tumor.
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