Free goods are better than goods that require a lot of labor to produce.
Are there any startups that could help address our unemployment issues at scale (i.e. need a lot of labor)?
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During this week when there's been a lot of labor news - starting with the big strike at Chrysler that lasted all of six hours before ending with a labor deal - let's take a look at labor unions - trade unions in particular - in a very different country, Egypt.
On a small plot it takes a lot of expensive labor to keep at bay pests like phylloxera and the Japanese beetle, and afflictions like Pierce's disease that destroy vine yields.
And she does seem, still, to have an awful lot of organized labor supporting her, a lot of workers.
It has increased the yields of farmers and taken a lot of the back-breaking labor out of farming.
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Legalizing all or most of them could do a lot to bolster the ranks of fading labor unions, which represent only 7% of the private-sector workforce today, down from over 30% three decades ago.
So, the liberal left and labor unions poured a lot of money in for Rodriguez this year, thinking that they may overturn what happened two years ago.
And I think it helped that Gustav had good manners to come over Labor Day weekend, which a lot of folks had plans to leave town anyway and they just accelerated have been pulled out quicker.
First of all, a lot of money was spent mostly on - by Greuel and her labor allies, and apparently Garcetti hit that, hit the fact that Greuel was supported by labor unions to his advantage.
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Rankin is listening to a lot of advice lately from many different people and weighing competing interests, including labor issues.
"If Mississippi had the same minimum wage as San Francisco, it probably would cause a lot of unemployment, " speculates Eric French, a senior economist specializing in labor and health issues at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
And this is something I think you're going to hear a lot of today on Capitol Hill, that they didn't control their high labor costs earlier, and then they got caught in this recession.
Most of the health care funding would be contained in the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill, which funds a lot of the programs that get the most use, like public schools, low-income heating assistance, unemployment insurance, job training, and public broadcasting, so it would be a very high-stakes game.
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Rising material and labor costs are some of the reasons for the loss, though a lot of it seems inexplicable.
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Meanwhile, progress was mired in a lot of old arguments traded across entrenched political divides: left versus right, management versus labor, business leaders versus environmental advocates.
So many things we take for granted came about because of the union movement -- minimum wage, 40-hour workweek, child labor laws -- you name it -- weekends -- a lot of these things came about because people were fighting for them.
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But I did want to ask, a lot of the questions about this had to do with how well the U.S. carmakers could survive their own labor agreements and the labor agreements, indeed, they've reached in the past and the generous pensions that they provided for car workers.
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