'People Out of Work' On the down side, payroll employment declined at the annual rate of 0.3percentt in the first half of the year, according to the council -- though even there New Jersey fared better than the nation as a whole, which recorded a 1.2percentt decline in employment.
(We're just using income, employee-side payroll and estate taxes in this comparison. A fuller picture would include state and local, employer-side payroll and corporate taxes).
Darlene Horton explains how an employer-side payroll tax reduction will affect small businesses.
And this year, Dragados was forced to remove James Roemer, a senior project manager with oversight of payroll on the East Side job — a critical position given that labor costs account for 80 percent of the $1.1 billion operation — when it was disclosed that Mr. Roemer had served time in prison for fraud and tax evasion after inflating the payroll of an M.T.A. project in 2003.
Executives at the generics meeting joked that government was spending less per year on reviewing applications for new generic drugs than the New York Yankees spend on the payroll of the left side of their infield.
"Reports that doctors conducting medical trials while on Medtronic's payroll may have hidden serious side effects for patients are deeply troubling," Senator Baucus said in a statement.
Some of those men are putatively public servants, but graft has so comprehensively penetrated the state that at one point the drug wars take the surreal form of local police fighting their federal counterparts, each side on the payroll of a different cartel.
On the pay side: adding up team payrolls shows that a typical NBA club spent $1.7 million for each win in 2009-10.
With the panel's collapse, the process now returns to the usual open-air infighting, which is an alarming thought, but at least will make it clear which side is refusing to cut the payroll tax and extend jobless benefits.
To be fair, Mr. Sarkozy is now talking about supply-side measures like cutting social security payroll taxes.
