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| Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:00:00 EST Same pay, higher satisfaction |
| It's no surprise to anyone running a small business that happier employees means less turnover, less absenteeism, and high productivity. One way to make your workers happier, of course, is to hike their pay. |
| Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:00:00 EST The week ahead |
| The week will be chock-full of economic news, including a much-awaited January jobs report to be released by the Labor Department on Friday. This is fitting, as this week will mark the final Federal Reserve Board meeting headed by its legendary chairman, Alan Greenspan, who will retire after January 31. |
| Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:00:00 EST Democrats push for new energy agency |
| Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, a New York Democrat, have introduced legislation that would create a new agency within the U.S. Department of Energy modeled after the Department of Defense's research agency, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The bill would authorize a total of $9 billion in funding for fiscal years 2007 through 2011 for the new agency to develop research to quickly move "cutting edge" energy-efficiency technologies into the marketplace. |
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