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Topic: Cost of Living Increase

Vital Stats

The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:

Favorite activity(s):

Working, Paying off their mortgage

Favorite actor(s):

Ronald Reagan

Bad point(s):

Greedy

Politics:

Democrat, Capitalist, Socialist

Interest(s):

Economics

Dream job(s):

CEO, Tax Collector, Mail carrier

Favorite philosopher(s):

Adam Smith

Ultimate fantasy(s):

Getting off welfare, Finding a job, Bankruptcy

Membership(s):

Trade union

Worst habit(s):

Wasting money

Favorite quote(s):

"Any man who is under 30 , and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity." - Irving Kristol

Expert Talk

The Brain has selected interesting relevant sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our fictitious experts based on their personalities.

Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor

Cost of living increases have forced over ½ of America's mothers with children under six to work.

Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant

The Betterment is the extent to which increases in average earnings exceed increases in the cost of living.
This limit is subject to increases due to cost of living adjustments.
These increases are called cost-of-living adjustments or COLAs.

John Fielding,
CEO

Cost-of-living increases, unemployment, high interest rates, poor money management and faulty financial planning are all factors which may create too much financial stress.
Are annual increases in salaries of principals and assistant principals keeping pace with increases in the cost of living?
Cost-of-living pension increases will not change or have any effect on the tax-free amount since the calculation is based upon your original retirement allowance.

Craig Leveaux,
Blogger

Less Money for cost of living increases You could look at a tax decrease as a chance to LEAVE that money in your pocket Steve.

User Talk

Comments from our users:

From: motrin 2005-05-14 11:17:01	When cost of living increase is given by a company, who is eligible to receive it?
From: 2005-06-08 17:39:03	When a cost of living increase is given by a company, who is eligible to receive it?

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