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To: ThirdEye who wrote (708029)	10/20/2005 1:10:07 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

<< Conservative idea of minimum wage is 30% below official government poverty line. >> 1. The "official government" poverty line is a yearly family income level based on family size. 2. The minimum wage is an hourly rate of pay for an individual worker. 3. The "conservative idea" of minimum wage has no collective consensus, since an idea is an individual thought process and each conservative owns his own ideas. So your line of useless, fully unintelligible, dogma is wasted on people lucent enough to see that 'compassionate conservative' is an insulting term to conservatives.

To: ThirdEye who wrote (708029)	10/20/2005 1:19:08 PM
From: Sedohr Nod	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The minimum wage debate is a "pity for the other poor slug" issue...I have yet to run into anyone on your side that personally knows a minimum wage earner(other than a teenager on their first job or a crack addict). I will not hire anyone that is only "worth" the minimum wage.

To: ThirdEye who wrote (708029)	10/20/2005 2:18:51 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 769670

Jobless Claims Plunge Reuters Thursday, October 20, 2005; 8:33 AM WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of unemployed U.S. workers asking for initial jobless aid fell a larger-than-expected 35,000 last week on the back of fewer hurricane-related claims, the government said on Thursday. First-time jobless claims, a rough guide to the pace of layoffs, fell for the second straight week, dropping to 355,000 the week ended October 15 from a revised 390,000 the previous week, the Labor Department said. Labor attributed about 40,000 of the new claims to people put out of work by hurricanes Katrina and Rita, bringing the cumulative total of claims stemming from the storms to 478,000 since September 3. The weekly number of claims fell farther than economists' forecast for 368,000, and was also down from the original reading of 389,000 the week ended October 8. The closely watched four-week moving average of claims, which many consider a better measure of the unemployment situation because it flattens weekly volatility, also dropped for the second straight week. The four-week moving average fell to 376,000 the week ended October 15 from 396,000 and to its lowest level in more than a month. The number of people who remain on the benefit rolls after having already received a week of assistance rose 36,000 to 2.89 million in the week to Oct 8, the latest week for which figures are available. This was the measure's highest level since 2.90 million the week ended August 7, 2004.