Lower Fuel Costs Pull Consumer Prices Down

September 17, 2008

Following two years of gains, the consumer price index dropped 0.1 percent in August, although “core prices,” which exclude food and energy, were 0.2 percent higher.

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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.