Avoid so-called sport seats that include tall and stiff bolsters at the sides of the back and bottom cushions.

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But stiff minimum-wage laws and other regulations have been chopping off the bottom rungs of the ladder and U.S. unemployment seems stuck at a high level, so American mobility may also take a hit.

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