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- Dollars from dirt: Economy spurs home garden boom
- Rather than working hard Congress is hardly working
- SPECIAL REPRT: Work From Home Part 1
- Maspeth Journal Furniture Chain’s Boast: Made in America. In …
Weary of Looking for Work Some Create Their wn
New York Times
He has sold three tanks one for $25000 to a restaurant and is starting a Web site to sell desktop versions for $350. “I keep getting stung” he said. And his crowded home office is filled with beakers and test tubes of jellyfish food. “But it beats looking for work. I hate looking for work. ”Plenty of other laid-off workers across the country burned out by a merciless job market are building business plans instead of sending out résumés. For these people recession has become the mother of invention.
Dollars from dirt: Economy spurs home garden boom
The Associated Press
(AP) — With the recession in full swing many Americans are returning to their roots — literally — cultivating vegetables in their backyards to squeeze every penny out of their food budget. Industry surveys show double-digit growth in the number of home gardeners this year and mail-order companies report such a tremendous demand that some have run out of seeds for basic vegetables such as onions tomatoes and peppers. “People’s home grocery budget got absolutely shredded and now we’ve seen just this dramatic increase in the demand for our vegetable seeds. We’re selling out” said George Ball CE of Burpee Seeds the largest mail-order seed company in the U. “I’ve never seen anything like it.
Rather than working hard Congress is hardly working
Baltimore Sun
No votes were taken. No action occurred. The seemingly relaxed pace of work is nothing new. A Monday-night-through-Thursday week in Washington frees up time for more politicking back home or fact-finding trips abroad. But things have changed. The nation is facing the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
SPECIAL REPRT: Work From Home Part 1
WJBF-TV
Beige: “If it sounds like an easy thing and people say ‘I’ve made $30000 in two months and I’m living the life‘ it’s wrong. Everybody would be doing it so it can’t be. “The Better Business Bureau tells us the most legitimate work-at-home offers come from your current employer giving you the chance to do the work you do now from home. That they say is the best place to start. Post a Comment(Requires.
Maspeth Journal Furniture Chain’s Boast: Made in America. In …
New York Times
The company’s factory on Grand Avenue in Maspeth surrounded by unglamorous neighbors like the Manufacturers Corrugated Box Company is filled with the whir of panel saws and the clatter of falling lumber. It is more than a workplace. It is also home to Marcos Koutsoftas’s canaries scores of tiny songbirds that he breeds in shades from snow to butter to dandelion which flutter and chirp in their own sunlit room just off the factory floor. Koutsoftas 58 was the first carpenter hired by Theodore Zaharopoulos the Greek immigrant who founded the company in 1969; his canary privileges are untouchable. Carpenters from Albania and Ecuador and India and Greece decorate their work areas with newspaper clippings in an array of languages and play their countries’ music on radios that compete with the industrial din. Postcards of the white houses and blue water of Greek islands cover the tool cabinets.
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