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White even succeeded in the Irish and blue-collar areas which were thought to be resentful of his new property tax rate hike and where he is known as "Mayor Black" because of his liberal policies toward the ghettos...
White even succeeded in the Irish and blue-collar areas which were thought to be resentful of his new property tax rate hike and where he is known as "Mayor Black" because of his liberal policies toward the ghettos...
...borders, ranged from a low of $103 to a high of $952,156. For example, it cited the disparities between the Los Angeles County districts of Baldwin Park and Beverly Hills. The latter, of course, is one of the wealthiest communities in the country, while Baldwin Park is a blue-collar, civil service suburb boxed in by industrial tax havens. According to 1968-69 figures, homeowners in Baldwin Park paid a relatively high school-tax rate of $5.48 per $100 of assessed property valuation, while in plush residential Beverly Hills owners were paying only $2.38. Yet even though Baldwin Park...
Even today, many U.S. workers lag behind their European counterparts in vacation time. In West Germany, for ex ample, blue-collar workers get 31 weeks off, white-collar workers a month; some government employees are entitled to as much as six weeks of holiday time. The prime force in lengthening West German vacations has been the unions, which have given vacations equal priority with wages, pensions and fringe benefits...
...problem is faced by blue-collar and white-collar workers alike. One concerned group, for instance, is the 125,000-member Council of Engineers and Scientists, whose membership has been hard hit by mass layoffs in the aerospace industry. This week, as vacationing Congressmen meet their constituents, pensions will undoubtedly register high among the topics of voter concern. New York Senator Jacob Javits reports that his mail on the subject runs second only to Viet...