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The Wage and Employment Impact of Minimum?Wage Laws in Three Cities
This report analyzes the wage and employment effects of the first three city-specific minimum wages in the United States -- San Francisco (2004), Santa Fe (2004), and Washington, DC (1993). We use data from a virtual census of employment in each of the three cities, surrounding suburbs, and nearby metropolitan areas, to estimate the impact of minimum-wage laws on wages and employment in fast food restaurants, food services, retail trade, and other low-wage and small establishments
'Misunderestimating' Living Standards
This issue brief finds that a forecast by Oxford Economics suggesting that the United Kingdom’s living standards will exceed those of the U.S. in 2008 is misleading. CEPR found that the forecast relies on a basic misunderstanding of standard methods of comparing international standards of living. Using the appropriate economic method, in 2008, the GDP per capita of the United States will exceed that of the United Kingdom by almost 19 percent.standard of living, international standards of living
The Wage and Employment Impact of Minimum-Wage Laws in Three Cities
This report analyzes the wage and employment effects of the first three city-specific minimum wages in the United States –San Francisco (2004), Santa Fe (2004), and Washington, DC (1993). We use data from a virtual census of employment in each of the three cities, surrounding suburbs, and nearby metropolitan areas, to estimate the impact of minimum-wage laws on wages and employment in fast food restaurants, food services, retail trade, and other low-wage and small establishments.minimum wage, employment
Employment Regulation and French Unemployment: Were the French Students Right After All?
The widely held view that French economic performance is poor and that French employment performance is catastrophic, flies in the face of the evidence, according to this report.
Telling God’s Story
Telling God’s Story In Telling God’s Story: Narrative Preaching for Christian Formation, John Wright examines the tensions that arise as Christians retell the biblical story in the American culture
Torts - Immunity from Liability - Doctrine of Interspousal Immunity - Married Women\u27s Property Act of 1893 - Pre-Martial Tort - Separate Property
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has reaffirmed the doctrine of interspousal immunity, rejecting the argument that an unliquidated tort claim is separate property within the meaning of the Married Women\u27s Property Act, despite the fact that the tort was committed prior to coverture.
DiGirolamo v. Apanavage, 454 Pa. 557, 312 A.2d 302 (1973)
Proper 13 • Isaiah 55:1–5 • August 3, 2014
He came to dance our dance with death, died on a cross, and rose victorious never to die again
Epiphany 3 • 1 Corinthians 7:29–31 (32–35) • January 25, 2015
Instead, what Paul wants to foster among us today is a conversation about life in Christ and how our joys and our sorrows, our buying and our selling, yes even our marriages and our singleness lead us closer to him
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