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Senate defeats competing payroll tax cut bills

The Senate last Thursday defeated competing payroll tax cut extension plans by Democrats and Republicans, clearing the way for negotiations on compromise legislation that could boost the economy next year.

Stop being micromanaged

No one likes a boss who excessively scrutinizes work and constantly checks in, but if you have a controlling boss you don't have to suffer, according to Harvard Business Review.

Few small businesses plan to hire

Many small business owners in the United States are reluctant to hire more employees in the near term as economic uncertainty and sagging sales continue to put pressure on company balance sheets, the latest index on small business optimism from the National Federation of Independent Business shows.

Blind employees boost eBay sales

EBay is recruiting an unlikely group of new entrepreneurs into its selling ranks — the visually impaired. Blind citizens have staggeringly high rates of unemployment, with some 70% working-age, legally blind adults out of work, according to the National Federation of the Blind. So the online marketplace, in partnership with NFB, began recruiting test sellers in the blind community late last year. In February, it began a pilot program with…

Obesity to worsen, weigh heavily on health care costs

[IMGCAP(1)] HONG KONG | Fri Aug 26, 2011 11:56am EDT (Reuters) – Obesity is most widespread in Britain and the United States among the world's leading economies and if present trends continue, about half of both men and women in the United States will be obese by 2030, health experts warned on Friday. …

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