The holidays are nothing if not social occasions, and social occasions are nothing if not stressful. Thankfully, there are etiquette and manners professionals of all stripes here to help us navigate the sometimes awkward and always tiring mores of society during gift-giving season.
allotting just $20 for health insurance and nothing, no money, allotted for food. it shows just how out of touch mcdonald s is with its employees. mickey d s also had another blog post on how to get a handle on holiday debt. one of the suggestions was get a second job and then another sort of cherry on top was the holiday etiquette. on what to tip the people who work for you, meaning the pool boys, the au pair and masseuse. do you think people who get $9 an hour have a masseuse they have to tip? it speaks of how clueless mcdonald s seems to be. problem in a bigger km he, though, mcdonald s jobs were not traditionally main jobs for people, increasingly they are. exactly. what s changed is that now you re seeing the majority of the minimum wage jobs go to older people, not just the teenagers they were initially intended for. older people have families to support, who can t pay the bills or make ends meet on the $9 they re getting.
penn state handled allegations against him in susa susan, what s going on here? reporter: don, jerry sandusky says no one at penn state ever demanded his keys to the locker room after he was accused of so domizing a boy in the shower. but there s also an unsettling response when he s asked about that interview. his new interview, at least parts of it arguably, are raising as many eyebrows as his first one. in an interview video taped, jerry sandusky not only repeats his denials of wrong doing, he tells the paper, youngsters might say i was a father figure. a father figure who stands accused of 40 counts of raping and molesting young boys. in an intriguing exchange, sandusky tries to explain the way he answered nbc a few weeks ago when asked whether he sexually attracted to young boys? am i sexually attracted underage boys? sexually attracted, you know, i enjoy young people. he tells the new york times at first he wondered what to make of the question. off camera, yo
new york, i m christine romans. carol has the morning off this morning. here are the morning s top stories for you. herman cain heading home to atlanta today, and he says the decision about whether to continue his campaign could come by monday at the latest. it s a decision that could be in his wife s hands after another woman accused cain of having a 13-year affair. with a $1,000 tax hike looming, congress can t get it done. the senate defeating competing payroll tax cut bills, one from republicans and one backed by the president. president obama warning that failure could deal a massive blow to the economy. and the west coast blown away. the santa ana winds on a war path. 140-mile-an-hour gusts ripping trees out of the ground, knocking out power and crushing homes. let s get a first check of today s weather. rob marciano is with us in atlanta. the big winds out west continue, although they re a little more calm than at this time yesterday. the threat will contin