Glen’s Garden Market is an upscale grocery shop in Washington, paying above the minimum wage in DC. Then DC put the minimum wage up from $8.25 to $11.50 an hour, the rate Glen’s were already paying entry-level workers (the federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour). So owner Danielle Vogel boosted hourly wages another dollar, …
In 2013, Trump signed a 60-year lease for the the headquarters of the U.S. Post Office, and began a $200 million renovation to turn it into an upscale hotel, called the Trump International Hotel, with the help of loans from Deutsche Bank, a large German bank. Trump’s financial disclosure reports, show he currently owes Deutsche …
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“In Britain there is a sharp rise in self- employed workers, whose ranks are swelling while their incomes are shrinking. They account for more than one in seven of the workforce, but earn less on average than they did in 1995. It cannot be right that an ever-larger slice of the labour market lives without …
I find it extraordinary that Americans pride themselves on “free speech” when what they should be priding themselves on is “free, responsible speech”. Free speech, as we experience it, is not free at all – it has costs, costs in terms of people’s reputations, peace of mind, self-image and even security. What may have been …
“Researchers Hal Hershfield and Cassie Mogilner surveyed more than 4,000 Americans to determine whether they valued time or money more, and how happy they were. A clear majority, 64%, preferred money, but those who valued time were happier. Nor was it only the those rich enough to not stress about money who preferred time; after …
