The bill is quite explicit about who gets merit pay (and how two lousy evaluations mean automatic firing) but kicks the problem of finding the money for those raises down to the school districts.

FORBES: Making Education Miserable

Even in a lousy economy, networks are willing to pay up for the NFL because it is offers some of the last must see live-programming on TV which means advertisers will get on board.

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Despite an average 78% drop in profits, due largely to lousy performance of investment portfolios, the country's major nonprofits raised the pay of their highest-paid employee--usually the boss--by 8.5%.

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