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To: joseffy who wrote (443112)	8/29/2011 11:32:16 AM
From: FJB	2 Recommendations Respond to of 793916

This sentence from his wikepedia entry concerns me. I hope he does not believe raising the minimum wage increases employment based on this single data point. ================================================== Krueger compared restaurant jobs in New Jersey, which raised its minimum wage, to restaurant jobs in Pennsylvania, which did not, and found that restaurant employment in New Jersey increased, while it decreased in Pennsylvania. [4]

To: joseffy who wrote (443112)	8/29/2011 12:27:43 PM
From: FJB	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793916

Barack Obama's uncle has been arrested and held as illegal immigrant James Bone and Catherine Philp From: The Times August 29, 201110:00AM BARACK Obama's long-lost "Uncle Omar" has been arrested for alleged drink-driving outside Boston and detained as an illegal immigrant, The Times can reveal. The arrest ends a mystery over the fate of a relative that the US President wrote in his memoir had moved to America from Kenya in the 1960s, although the circumstances of his discovery may now prove to be an embarrassment for the White House. Official records say Onyango Obama, 67, was picked up outside the Chicken Bone Saloon in Framingham, Massachusetts, at 7.10pm on August 24. Police say he nearly crashed his Mitsubishi 4x4 into a patrol car, and then insisted that the officer should have given way to him. A report filed with the Framingham District Court said that a breathalyser at the police station registered his blood alcohol at 0.14mg/100ml of blood, above the state limit of 0.08mg... theaustralian.com.au