Each word in its statement of purpose has meaning that guides decision-making, client relations, employee benefits, and long-term plans.

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In New Jersey, for instance, the state government struggles to finance critical public works projects that are vital for long-term economic competitiveness, while at the same time public employee benefits are rising at double-digit annual rates.

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In an era when many of our largest states are drowning in long-term debt incurred to finance spending on everything from lavish public employee pensions to privately-owned stadium construction, the last thing the federal government should be doing is encouraging even more borrowing at the state and local level.

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Thus, the recession is likely to continue to be felt at the individual employee level, with long-term implications for consumer spending.

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The result of good leadership is high morale, good employee retention, and sustainable long-term success.

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Unlike the employer, the employee coach is not assured those long-term stadium revenue streams from that source no matter what was done to build them.

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If the stock sale is a qualifying transaction, then the employee will only report a short or long-term capital gain on the sale.

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Ms. Cabot, who launched Dansko in 1990 by selling shoes from the back of a Volvo station wagon, says the tax benefits associated with employee stock ownership enabled the S corporation to manage the long-term debt of buying out the couple's ownership stake.

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But even if Employee Free Choice becomes law, it is unlikely on its own to indicate any long-term reversal in the decline of unionism, reckons Richard Epstein, a law professor at the University of Chicago who opposes the bill.

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