Given that the chancellor's avowed aim is to help the poor, the better-off will have to pay.

ECONOMIST: The budget

The good news for GM: The California-or-bust strategy is beginning to pay off, and may get better yet as Cadillac launches two perfect-for-California vehicles.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The good news for GM (nyse: GM - news - people ): The California-or-bust strategy is beginning to pay off, and may get better yet as Cadillac launches two perfect-for-California vehicles.

FORBES: California Dreamin'

Using it to pay for services used mainly by the better-off makes it even more so.

ECONOMIST: The BBC

If the Bank decides that the minimum wage will spark off claims for higher pay from better-paid workers, it may push up interest rates.

ECONOMIST: The minimum wage

Better-off Germans will also be asked to pay higher pension contributions.

ECONOMIST: Germany's new government

Consumers benefit because they can be sure that the network reaches anybody they may want to pay, but the trade-off is that there is no competition to develop a better service.

ECONOMIST: Banking

While older, more experienced and better-paid reporters were getting laid off left and right, I got hired because my employer could pay me pennies, and I would work my butt off to prove myself.

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