Why winter break could force clubs into a massive clearout; EXCLUSIVE: Disaster ahead as our teams keep spending money faster than they earn it, says top industry analyst
SPL clubs are in grave danger of hitting a mid-winter breaking point. The scheduled shut-down in January is triggering financial alarm bells at already-cash-strapped clubs across the country. Their income, reduced by a less-lucrative TV deal this season, has been hammered down further by falling

Publication: Evening Times

THE CHINA BUBBLE BURSTS The Western dream of a billion customers is fading fast. Still waiting for those masses to earn some money, companies are being worn down by corruption and rip-off prices. - July 6, 1987
(FORTUNE Magazine) - WESTERN business's romance with the People's Republic of China is over. A Peking conference sponsored by Chinese advertising officials on how to crack ''a market with more consumers than America and Europe combined'' was nearly canceled this spring for lack of registrants.

Publication: Fortune

Looking to Earn Extra Money?
CCCS Clients Offer Ideas for Second Jobs ATLANTA, July 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Katie Kozub of Cleveland, Ohio, earns extra income by bartending two nights a week. The flexibility allows her to spend time with family and she is able to pick the nights she works. Working parties and special events earn

Publication: PR Newswire

Democrats spend faster than taxpayers earn
I commend The Sun for its extraordinary coverage of the Illinois state budget crisis. The General Assembly is in our third "overtime" week of session, even though the Chicago Democratic Party controls every branch of state government. Each 1 1/2 days we are in overtime session, the salary of a

Publication: Naperville Sun, The (IL)

"Earn over $5,000 per month - in cash!" (Don and Cecelia Kinnsch discuss their experience attending American Business Seminars' special money-making conference)
Earn over $5,000 per month-in cash! That was the promise. But all our reporter got from this business seminar was the hard sell. The invitation arrives by mail. The magazine is asked to come to a Special Money-Making Three-Day Conference called How to Make It and How to Keep It. It's to be given in

Publication: Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine

EDUCATION PREMIUM Training important in closing income gap; TODAY`S KEY POINTS Political, business and labor leaders say improved skills will enable U.S. workers to maintain middle-class wages. But while education is needed for individual success, many economists doubt it can raise all boats. One has estimated it would take more than $426 billion in training money to restore male high school graduates and dropouts to their real 1979 earnings levels. While the erosion of America's middle-income ranks is well advanced, youth apprenticeship programs are in their infancy. In Wisconsin, some 250 of nearly 50,000 graduating public high school students are completing youth apprenticeship programs. The goal: to have one in five completing skills training by 2000. In the three decades following World War II, high school graduates without special skills could earn middle-class wages in factory jobs. A key economic issue today is what happens to pay in the growing number of low-skilled service jobs. Boosting the minimum wage, greater unionization of service workers and government subsidies have been suggested as solutions. But stronger unions and higher pay minimums have yielded greater unemployment in Europe and Canada. Left unabated, current economic trends are likely to spawn social problems, analysts say. If people feel they gain little by working hard, they will be less motivated "to join the mainstream culture,` says one analyst. ------------ ADDITIONAL READING The body of literature on income inequality and trends in American living standards has been growing. Recently publishd book on the topics include: "The Winner-Take-All Society," by Robert Frank and Philip Cook. The Free Press. $25. "America Unequal," by Sheldon Danziger and Peter Gottschalk. Harvard University Press and Russell Sage Foundation. $26. "The End of Affluence," by Jeffrey Madrick. Random House. $22. "The Good Life and Its Discontents: The American Dream in the Age of Entitlement 1945-1995," by Robert Samuelson. Times Books. $25. Series: Middle Class Lost: America Pulling Apart; last of four parts
Coey Sephus is carrying a B-plus average and a piece of America's economic future. She's 17, a junior at Custer High School and already wise to the ways of the labor market. "I told my Mom when I was looking for a job that I did not want to flip hamburgers or work in any fast-food restaurant," she

Publication: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel