New Hampshire AFL-CIO

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Put New Hampshire and Maine workers on the Memorial Bridge Project!

Check out the new videos on youtube NH and Main Ironworkers explain why hiring local workers is so important

One of the travesties of our project bidding system is that when companies are in the bidding stage they say it's too early to discuss using local workers, but when they are in the building stage, they say it's too late. We have an opportunity to intervene between bidding and building with Archer Western, the company scheduled to complete the Memorial Bridge Project between Portsmouth and Kittery, to tell them to hire New Hampshire and Maine Iron Workers for this project paid for by our tax dollars.

Hiring local workers keeps our tax dollars circulating in our local economy which helps all of us. In addition, the Iron Workers are experienced and skilled men and women who have completed, or are currently enrolled in, an intensive three-year apprenticeship training program and are paid a living wage with health and retirement benefits which ultimately keeps the standard of living higher for us all. We must end the spiral to the bottom that comes with hiring out-of-state workers who will take our tax dollars out of the local economy.

Please call Steve DelGrosso and Don Gillis of Archer Western (from Atlanta, GA) to let them know we have all the skilled Iron Workers they need right here, and we expect them to respect our communities and residents while they profit handsomely from this project. Steve DelGrosso can be reached at (617) 592-0184 and Don Gillis at (404) 495-8700.

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Where the top 5% live: States with the most millionaires

Where the top 5% live NH in 8th Place

Each year, Phoenix Marketing International analyzes national data on millionaire households to reveal which U.S. states attract the most high-income families.

The overall number of millionaire households has increased nationwide for the second year in a row. In 2011, there were 5.94 million millionaire households, compared with 5.56 million households a year earlier, an increase of approximately 6.8%. Nearly every U.S. state saw an increase in its total number of millionaires, adding thousands of households to millionaire status.

http://realestate.msn.com/states-with-the-most-millionaires-per-capita

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