Indeed, with a further payrolls report due to be published before the March 19 Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meeting the odds still favour the Federal Reserve continuing the tapering process.
Faced with declining business, employers could further trim payrolls.
Alitalia will further pare its payroll by not renewing the contracts for another 1,000 seasonal workers.
Many companies have cut the hours of workers on the payroll, further diminishing paychecks.
But after the payouts to Rodriguez, Posada, Rivera and Pettitte (which totaled about $73 million for 2008), it seemed unwise to further bloat the payroll.
One of the more popular items in the bill is a further cut in payroll taxes, intended to increase take-home pay for 160 million Americans.
Given the magnitude of the jobs crisis, we should go further by cutting payroll taxes for employers on new hires, including all hires by new firms.
Milbury asked the team's co-owners, Charles Wang and Sanjay Kumar, to stretch the payroll further to include $7.75 million for Osgood's contract, which has two years to run.
So, rather than trying to further parse the payroll numbers, let's look, for once, at the distributional data in the report, which shows that a great deal of variation and inequity are persisting, despite the over-all improvement.
The Senate voted 51 to 49 for Democrats' measure to further reduce Social Security payroll taxes next year for both workers and employers and to impose the surtax, but the tally was short of the 60 votes needed.
