Monday, June 14, 2004
Reader Email
To: editor@201k.com
From: "Kathleen"
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004
Subject: buried in the last paragraph of a story...
...on Bush and Kerry trading barbs on the campaign trail. Bush is bashing Kerry's "pessimism" (hmmm....let's see, what's the opposite of pessimism? And who has been getting round the clock coverage for his wonderful optimism? Let's see, the name's on the tip of my tongue)...
Anyway, back to the subject at hand:
From: "Kathleen"
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004
Subject: buried in the last paragraph of a story...
...on Bush and Kerry trading barbs on the campaign trail. Bush is bashing Kerry's "pessimism" (hmmm....let's see, what's the opposite of pessimism? And who has been getting round the clock coverage for his wonderful optimism? Let's see, the name's on the tip of my tongue)...
Anyway, back to the subject at hand:
Bush's campaign cited U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics figures showing the average salary for non-supervisory workers at $15.64 an hour.
But the bureau also reports that a bulk of the new jobs -- 978,000 -- come from the private services sector, where the average hourly salary is $15.24. Of the sector's professional and businesses services jobs created in May, nearly half are temporary help, the bureau said.
