Retail Sales Drop for Second Straight Month

November 15, 2006

The latest Labor Department report had good and bad news. The bad news was that retail sales fell for the second straight month in October. The good news is that inflation at the wholesale level fell also.

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Waffle House Workers Strike for Fair Pay and Better Working Conditions

Waffle House workers in Conyers, Georgia, are now on their third day of striking over what they call the company’s unfair policies. Led by the Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW), Waffle House employees are demanding an end to the mandatory “meal credit” deductions from their paychecks, along with better wages and improved working conditions.