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What Is Powering The Emerging Pawnaissance?

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Policymakers may have simply shifted operating firms from one industry to another, having no real effect on market conduct,” Ramirez writes. While the number of payday lenders in Ohio plummeted, the number of pawnbrokers increased by 97 percent.

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California Dreamin’ (Of A Higher Minimum Wage)

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The $15 hourly minimum wage would be the highest in the nation, and the proposal represents a potential game-changer in the battle to raise the federal minimum wage, which currently stands at $7.25 an hour on Jan. 1, 2017, then to $11 an hour one year later and will see annual increases of $1 until reaching $15 an hour on Jan.

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11 New Restaurant Concepts Reimagining Fast Food & Casual Dining

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Instead, new millennial-inspired and tech-infused dining trends have been emerging across the US and internationally. Many of yesterday’s casual dining brands are dying, but not because millennials “don’t eat out.” Brick-and-mortar businesses have been hammered over the past decade — with the exception of one bright spot.