Employment

Other People’s Money

May 16, 2012 Economics

The journalist character, Melissa Tregarthen in Justin Cartwright’s, Other People’s Money: “I am a number,” she writes. “I am a statistic. I am a sacrifice on the altar of the free market. I have no power, except the power of words.” This is immediately after being given the “chop,” being laid off.

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Taxes Are Not the Only Factor in Migration

May 8, 2012 Business

We hear a lot in New York about how taxes cause people to emigrate, either directly or indirectly because businesses leave. This is particularly a concern when younger people leave. So it’s interesting to see that New Hampshire, a notoriously low tax state (neither a sales nor an income tax), is also suffering from an […]

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