From this article on CNN's website:
Crowley, page 190
It required additional contributions by state
and local government workers to their health care
plans and pensions, amounting to about an 8
percent decrease in take-home pay.
Wikipedia
The bill requires additional contributions by
state and local government workers to their health
care plans and pensions, amounting to roughly an
8% decrease in the average government worker's take
home pay.
Contrary to what some people think, Wikipedia content
is copyrighted. It's available under
an extremely permissive license (CC-BY-SA), but you do have to give proper attribution.
As it happens, Wikipedia has been plagiarized before. I know about the instance involving material I wrote about Democratic Party superdelegates:
Plagiarist
Superdelegates -- delegates to the National Democratic Convention --are not selected based on the party primaries and caucuses in each U.S. state, but rather based solely on their status as current or former elected officeholders and party officials. They are free to choose the candidate they like.
Wikipedia
The convention delegates who are not superdelegates are selected as a result of party primaries and caucuses in each U.S. state, in which voters express their preference among the contenders for the party’s nomination for President of the United States. ... By contrast, the superdelegates are seated based solely on their status as current or former elected officeholders and party officials. They are free to support any candidate for the nomination, although many of them have publicly announced endorsements.
I mention this because the plagiarist in this instance was someone writing for, of all places, CNN. (Preserved thanks to the Wayback Machine:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080219122752/http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/17/2008.dems/index.html ) Not that I've been harboring a grudge for years or anything....
= new reply since forum marked as read