Federal Minimum Wage and U.S. Labor Laws

Federal minimum wage 2009
Since July 24, 2009, the federal minimum wage has been $7.25 per hour. That means in every state in the United States, employers must pay workers at least $7.25 per hour. In Washington, D.C., it means employers must pay $8.25 per hour because the law there dictates [...]

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Cakes Gone Wrong Chronicled in Cake Wrecks

Cakes gone wrong provide popular pastime
It’s fun to watch the way the print world and the Internet feed into each other. Most of the time, I read stories about how newspapers are shutting down and books will someday be obsolete because of the Internet. However, Cake Wrecks is an example [...]

"Cake wreck spotting" has become a popular sport, as evidenced by this photo from Flikr. Can't guess what this cake is supposed to be? It's a turtle.

Horrific Weekend at the Box Office | The Final Destination and Halloween 2

Maybe not even horror fans can stomach this
Horror movie lovers might be pleased with the new offerings available this weekend at the box office, but they will be the only ones. Movie critics certainly are not impressed. People who take out faxless payday loans to see either of the two [...]

Bobby Campo stars in "The Final Destination." What a very proud day for him. Image from www.collider.com.

Jaycee Lee Dugard Pictures | Picking Up the Pieces

Learning to live with freedom
You’ve heard about the girl found after 18 years by now. Her name is Jaycee Lee Dugard, and photos of her as a child – before she was abducted – are all over the World Wide Web. The kidnapped girl is found; she had been abducted [...]

Jaycee Lee Dugard pictures | Before the abduction (Photo: find-missing-children.org)

Payday Loans | Online and Easy With Personal Money Store!

Be a happy hippo
Online-based no fax payday loans and easy payday loans connection site Personal Money Store is on a mission to be the only Web site that potential clients keep in mind when they’re in need of fast payday loans, payday cash loans, bad credit payday loans or other [...]

Be a happy hippo with payday loans from Personal Money Store! (Photo: psotd.powerblogs.com)

Surviving Recession: Financial Planning with a dose of Payday Loans

The basic purpose of payday loans
There is a widespread misconception that the need for a payday loan arises out of poor financial planning. The fact remains that the best and the most meticulous of your plans can be undone when faced with tough times. As Mike Tyson once said, “Everybody [...]

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K Street Project | Giving the Lobbyists a Beat-Down

Whining and dining the K Street Krowd
Lobbying is a firmly entrenched arm of American politics and business in America. So long as there is balance between the interest groups within lobbying firms in key location like those of K Street in Washington, D.C., I can see them as a source [...]

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Did Daniel Hauser Flee to Mexico for Nemenhah Tribe Medicine?

Flee to Mexico for alternative treatments
If you’ve seen the Michael Moore documentary “Sicko,” you’ve seen a vision of an American healthcare system in crisis. Dominated by bureaucracy, people die waiting for approval of life-saving surgeries. I’m reminded of Sean Hannity, foaming at the mouth over the prospect of socialized medicine: [...]

Memorial Day Recipes | Feed Your Friends and Family for Cheap!

Memorial Day — honoring soldiers
Memorial Day, which always falls on the last Monday in May, is for honoring women and men who died while serving in the military.
It just so happens that the day set aside for decorating graves and mourning the loss of individuals who died for our country [...]

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Direct Deposit and Payday Loans

Direct Deposit Payday loans offer a number of features to the consumer

The application process is quick and effortless;
There are typically no credit checks (i.e., you are not put through the “harrowing” experience of submitting your bank statement in order to receive an approval);
The Payday loan lender will not ask for [...]

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Ontario Advocate Group PIAC Confused About the Payday Loan

PIAC, leave well enough alone
If certain groups in Ontario have their way, a payday loan would be as hard to come by as honest bank CEOs… right?
Recently, the Center For Responsible Lending or a similar “self-interest” group sat Ontario’s Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) down in its lap and made [...]

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Payday Loans and Netflix CEO: The People’s Choice

Of the people, for the people
Payday loans help people from all walks of life through little emergencies with extra cash. In a certain sense, there’s a populist tinge to them. Big banks want to take the average person’s financial choice away, while companies like payday lenders offer a bridge to [...]

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Board Advises $21 Payday Loans Cap in Ontario

Is capping payday loans a good idea?
The Associated Press reports from Toronto that an “independent advisory board” is advising that Ontario’s government should cap the cost of payday loans at $21 for every $100 loaned. If this were to become law, it would join the current consumer protections provided by [...]

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Payday Loans: Better Than Tax Refund Loans in Michigan

We’ve told you – a payday loan is better

For payday loan customers you know and those you just haven’t met yet, listen up. Now’s the time of year when people are thinking about their tax returns. Considering how difficult the economy has been lately, they’re also thinking about how [...]

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Mercury in Everyday Food? | By Your Payday Loan Source

Eat organic… avoid poisoning yourself
In difficult economic times, a payday loan can be a comfort. If your paycheck falls just a bit short of covering your necessary expenses, emergency cash can bridge the gap until your next pay period. Christian Coley of eFluxMedia brings our attention to a frightening development [...]

Obama’s Middle Class Task Force | By Your Payday Loan Source

“This isn’t just an economic concept”
Like a payday loan, it’s something tangible.
The L.A. Times‘ Mark Silva reports that President Obama has ordered the creation of a “White House Task Force on Middle Class Working Families” and legislation that will strengthen labor unions. Vice President Biden will be in charge of [...]

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Don’t Lose Your Payday Loans in a Black Hole!

Fallen into a black hole lately?
Inquiring minds want to know: have you heard about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland, and can it swallow the Earth entire, payday loans included?
Researcher Solmaz Barazesh of Penn State strives to put such fears to rest in the article “Probing Question: Could the [...]

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Recession Roundup | From Your Center for Faxless Payday Loans

Unemployment goes up, home sales go down
Personal Money Store provides you with faxless payday loans and details on the deepening recession.
The United States continues to reach for greatness, setting new records and leaving the old ones in the dust. Unfortunately, these “triumphs” are in the “highest number of unemployed workers” [...]

Once again, the United States has broken its own record, this time in the unemployment category.

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Starbucks to cut thousands of  jobs

Your faxless payday loans store keeps you updated on the state of the economy.
Well, America, now it’s really getting bad. Starbucks Coffee Company, the corporate giant that got millions addicted to a daily dose of espresso, is going to cut 6,700 jobs. The company’s first [...]

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Excessive Regulation of Payday Loans in New Mexico

Payday loans under fire in the pueblo
Albuquerque, New Mexico’s KOB Eyewitness News 4 reports that the state legislature is looking at three new bills that would bring constraints upon payday loans. Politicians who spend excessive amounts of time worrying about regulations for things that actually serve the public interest are [...]

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