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Lawmakers floating a bill at the capitol are hoping to make new homes more water friendly.
The bill would require home builders to ask home buyers if they want water-efficient appliances installed in their new home. It's a push to use more low-flow toilets, faucets and showerheads along with Energy Star appliances in hopes of saving water.
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For a couple tight weeks after taking in her sixth-grade stepson, Lisa Lewis fretted about how to pay for his school lunches.
Unable to find a full-time job, the 37-year-old works part-time at a Kansas City, Kan., daycare, earning minimum wage. On that money alone, she supports herself, her unemployed husband, her stepson and her 11th-grade son.
"I sometimes cry myself to sleep wondering how I am going to keep my family fed and things like that," Lewis said. "I'm making it but barely."
The popularity of baby slings has been on the rise over the past four years.
But, reports "Early Show" Consumer Correspondent Susan Koeppen, the Consumer Product Safety Commission says two slings are considered so dangerous they're being pulled from the market, and parents are being told to stop using them.
Earlier this month, "The Early Show" broke the news that federal regulators were warning of possible suffocation hazards posed by baby slings -- which parents put around their necks and carry their babies in.
Environmental groups across the country are sending the message to state governments -- stop using taxpayer money to buy bottled water. It's a green movement that's gaining traction during World Water Week.
On the steps of the state Capitol there was a taste test on Tuesday. Activists were wondering if some children could really tell the difference between bottled water and water from the tap.
President Obama recently signed a jobs bill with $18 billion in tax breaks as well as $20 billion for highways and transit. Obama said many small businesses are on the fence about whether to hire new workers, but tax incentives in the jobs bill should make the decision that much easier.
The Senate passed the bill earlier this week with 11 Republicans among the 68 senators who voted to send it to the president. The bill includes about $18 billion in tax breaks and pumps $20 billion into highway and transit programs.
Amazon is cutting off affiliates that help it sell products in Colorado because of a new tax on online sales.
Affiliates earn money by using their Web sites to link customers to online sellers like Amazon.
Amazon told affiliates in an e-mail on Monday it would no longer pay them advertising fees because of the new law.
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The unemployment rate held at 9.7 percent in February as employers shed fewer jobs than expected, evidence that the job market may be slowly healing.
The Labor Department said employers cut 36,000 jobs, below analysts' expectations of 50,000. Analysts expected the jobless rate to rise to 9.8 percent.
The unemployment rate, which hasn't risen since October, could be bottoming out. Still, 14.9 million Americans are unemployed, nearly double the total when the recession began, and the economy has shed 8.4 million jobs during that time.
Counting on mail service six days a week is virtually a birth-right, but now the U.S. Postal Service wants to kill the sacred cow.
"I think it's not a good idea," said surprised postal patron Cornell Wade when told of the plan to eliminate Saturday service.
At a Tuesday news conference in Washington, D.C., postal officials spelled out the problem.
"Any paper-based communication is being challenged by how they exist and provide their services in an Internet world," said John Potter, Postmaster General.
A Colorado lawmaker wants to penalize companies who deliver phone books to places they're not wanted.
"It's a nuisance, it's a waste of paper, we're cutting down a lot of trees for this, and they usually end up in the dumpster," Pat Taylor from Denver said.
Others, especially those who don't have Web-access phones or computers, say they couldn't function without it.
"I think it's very nice. Not everyone has the Internet, so then what do you do? You knock on your neighbor's door, who has the phone book," Genna Helfer from Denver said.