One of the flags flying in downtown Columbia on Labor Day.

American ethnicity map shows melting pot of ethnicities that make up the USA today | Mail Online

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Labor Day 2013

TIME

Will you be barbecuing this Labor Day, or slaving away at the office? According to new survey data from Bloomberg BNA and Beyond.com, many Americans will have the somewhat ironic pleasure of laboring on the day that’s meant to commemorate the “social and economic achievements of the American worker.”

The above chart from The Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) highlights the differences in legal requirements for paid time off in the developed world. The United States is a major outlier among its developed peers when it comes to mandatory time off, and that ends up affecting poorer workers more than anybody else.  According to the CEPR, though 23% of American workers don’t receive paid time off, that number jumps to 49% for the bottom fourth of wage earners.

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Republicans in the House of Representatives continue to staunchly oppose public efforts to reduce unemployment, repeating their assertion that government policies themselves are the primary cause of the problem. Earlier this summer 30 of them even co-sponsored a bill that would strike the goal of encouraging “maximum employment” from the mission of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve.

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Even though it's several years old, the following video by Peter Anderson, featuring a song by James McMurtry, illustrates how American labor has been cast aside by the rich and powerful who own our government.

Columbia 25, Eastern York 21

LANCASTERONLINE

Columbia 25, Eastern York 21: Paced by senior running backs Michael Roberts, Jose Retamar and Keith Wakefield, Columbia emerged with the win.

Roberts, at 5-foot-10, 167 pounds, finished with a game-high 106 yards on 12 carries. He scored on a 2-yard run in the third quarter and a 56-yarder in the fourth.

Retamar added a 14-yard score and Wakefield broke off a 57-yard TD run in the third quarter.

Junior quarterback Kyle Warfel was 7-of-18 passing for 98 yards.

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Civil War lecture series set for Columbia

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The 150th anniversary of the Columbia area's involvement in the Civil War is being remembered this fall by a Columbia organization.

Six lectures, "Remembering our 150th Civil War Past," are being sponsored starting in October by the Columbia Historic Preservation Society.

All will be held on Saturdays at 1 p.m. at the historic society's main hall, 21 N. Second St., Columbia.

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Boats searching Susquehanna River at Columbia for missing infant

A search for the body of a baby has resumed at the Susquehanna River, a county dispatch supervisor said.

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