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Gay characters are all over prime time these days. But if they compose the only image you have of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender America, then your picture is a smidge incomplete. Those lawyers and fashion assistants and sexy bi doctors usually have expensive educations, career success and job ...

As the economy perks up, wages in many industries are reviving, some faster than others. There are steady pay improvements in strong sectors, like health care, but what about the beleaguered finance and insurance industry? Wages there are actually showing signs of life, too, according to research from online ...

The good news about pay raises hitting an all-time low last year is that an estimated three percent in salary increases are expected in 2010, according to a survey by Hewitt Associates, a global human resources consulting company. That should help shift the mindset of employees who have felt frustrated by missing ...

The median weekly wage of the nation's 99.8 million full-time workers was $744 in the second quarter of 2010 seasonally adjusted), according to the latest numbers released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This was 0.8 percent higher than a year earlier, but down $4 from the previous quarter's average of ...

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