Word: effecting
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...million hourly workers make the minimum wage or less, about 40% of them teenagers. The $6,968 earned annually by a full-time minimum-wage employee is $2,467 less than the federal poverty line for a family of three. Even when the new raise goes fully into effect, such employees will earn only $8,840 a year. But only a handful of minimum-wage earners are the sole supports of their families. Moreover, many live in households that receive such Government assistance as food stamps, rent subsidies and Medicaid...
Marshal Goldman, associate director of theRussian Research Center, said that the events inEast Germany will create a "domino effect" ofinstability that will eventually reach the SovietUnion itself...
...escape route opened Saturday created thefirst free passage to the West since the BerlinWall went up in 1961. Authorities have said theroute will remain open until a new travel lawtakes effect, possibly before Christmas
Fein has several complaints about our conference. She says it is not "balanced," that the speakers lack "particular expertise" and that its effect will be to obscure "real debate on an already murky issue." Let me take each in turn...
...cost the federal government some $32.2 billion this year, plus another $10.4 billion for home-owner property tax deductions. Although no checks are written, this money constitutes a huge subsidy--pure and simple--to homebuyers. When the government forgives part of your tax liability, it has exactly the same effect as sending you a welfare check...