Jun 28, 2013
The numbers for June 28, 2013
This is a Marketplace.org Reader
650,000
Guess who’s back? The good old sequester. The Pentagon will start furloughing 650,000 civilian Pentagon employees next week as part of the across the board budget cuts. (Marketplace)
1/5
According to the polling firm Gallup, one in five U.S. employees are undermining the organizations they work for. (ed note: Hmm, [looks around], I’m sitting in a room with five people.) (Gallup)
$68,500
Oh, lord, won’t you buy me…a bible signed by Einstein. One sold for $68,500 at an auction in New York City. Einstein included a note inside saying the book “is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently.” (USA Today)