Although such payments may be justified as part of a social safety net, rewarding non-work and penalizing productive effort reduces jobs and economic activity.

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It earns a 24% net profit margin (well-paid work).

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According to the Census Bureau, right-to-work states enjoyed a 11.3% net increase of new residents over the past decade compared to non-right-to-work states.

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The council will co-ordinate the work of existing bodies who oversee net safety and implement a comprehensive programme that will educate parents about the benefits and dangers of using the net.

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Their work supported the low-end estimate of a net benefit from immigration of about one quarter of 1% of national income.

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Thus, if we wish to take away this unenviable Catch-22, we can only do by completely removing the safety net, leaving low-income workers with no choice but to work if they want to have any money at all, even if it is insufficient to support a typical family of four.

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Yet for all the angst and work over auto-sector employment, there were essentially no new net auto jobs.

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Professor Harnad argues that what is at issue is what he calls 'self piracy': copyright was drafted to protect the author from theft of his product - but academics would be dealing with their own work, so comparisons with the widespread net piracy of music, text or software do not apply.

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In another interesting presentation, Alan Shalloway, CEO of Net Objectives, suggested that the reason for this is that Scrum is essentially a bottom-up approach to work, which is highly effective for generating high productivity at the team level.

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