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POPSWhat The Media Didn’t Tell You About The Unemployment Spike Congress is to blame. Last year Congressional Democrats (along with some Stockholm-Syndromed Republicans) passed the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007, which started a phased hike of the minimum wage from $5.15 an hour to $7.25. Free market economists warned them that this would increase unemployment – that rapid increases in unemployment compensation hit teens and minorities the hardest. But the class-warriors are running the people’s house now, and they would hear none of that, so they took to the floor, let loose the dogs of demagoguery, and saddled America’s pizza parlors, municipal swimming pools, house painting businesses and lawn mowing services with a huge cost increase.
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POPSHow Do I Avoid Foreclosure "How do I avoid Foreclosure. It's the question, quietly asked or disparately thought, in almost every American neighborhood, humble to mansion-esque. There are ways to avoid foreclosure, and if you are thinking the thought, act now! Read the clip, the article, the link.
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POPSHow Do I Avoid Foreclosure? It is no secret that foreclosures are rampant and the market is tight. you may need some alternatives to foreclosure. Take a look at this clip and link.
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POPSStephen A. Smith Loses Sports Columnist Gig Screamin' A. Smith's outsized personality has made him a big-time TV and radio sports commentator for ESPN. At this point, he no longer needs a gig at the Philadelphia Inquirer to continue plying his trade. Incidentally, Philly blog Phawker.com scooped the Inky on the story. To its credit, the newspaper provided a link on its Web site to the Phawker story. - Louis Hau
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POPSBank or Loan Shark......You Decide! Banks have become the new "legal loan sharks" and are getting away with practices that thirty years ago might have landed perpetrators of these practices in jail. I urge y'all to read this entire piece as it is very informative. This is a major issue in our country because it gives us a false sense of success and financial security while so many of us wind up bankrupt or worse.