28-Aug-2012 13:32 How

With food safety bill, U.S. government will spend nearly $1 million per person to prevent food-borne illness deaths :: (NaturalNews) The recently-passed Food Safety Modernization Act, which was passed in order to prevent food-borne illness deaths in the USA, will cost $1.4 billion over the first five years. But nobody thinks about the economics of the issue. How many people are we going to save by spending this $1.4 billion, even assuming it works?To answer that question, let's look at the food illness fatality figures offered by the CDC:• Out of the 5,000 food-borne illness deaths each year in the United States, only 1,809 are "attributable to foodborne transmission" according to the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no5/mead.htm#Table%203).• E.coli, which is often quoted in the big scare stories about food safety, only kills 78 people a year through food-borne transmission (52 plus 26, fro...
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How Apple killed the Linux desktop :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/uSMfoN794HU/index.html

VIDEO: Gadgets to make your business fly :: How some of the Big Apple's self-starters are using a plethora of gadgets and apps to help in the day to day cut and thrust of small business.
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AUDIO: How should public sector pay be set? :: Matthew Hancock, Conservative MP and former chief of staff to George Osborne, and Dr Evan Harris, vice chair of the Liberal Democrat Federal Policy Committee, debate the government's idea to pay public sector workers more in high pay areas and less in low pay areas.
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How to start a business without a bank loan :: Entrepreneurs are having a tough time at the moment as banks are slow to loan money but start-ups are increasingly finding funding through other means - by asking complete strangers.
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How Much Inequality Is Needed to Support a Strong Economy? :: There's plenty of self-interest on display in the debate on inequality, but behavioral and experimental economic studies and other inquiries into the topic show that there's more to the issue than meets the eye.read more (Source: Psychology Today Work Center)
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Labor Claims Coalition Will Bring Back Work Choices from the Dead :: Former Prime Minister John Howard has affirmed earlier this August that the Australian economy is at a solid state as claimed by the Labor-led federal government, according to a report over the weekend by the Australian Financial Review (AFR).
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/377608/20120827/labor-claims-coalition-will-bring-back-work.htm

How China drives commodities down :: China's slowing growth hits global resource boom
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