Word: cheaping
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...Brown's best-selling novel. Either way the secrets are out now, and if they weren't worth $24.95 to you in hardcover, you can get them and the absorbing tale of Harvard "symbologist" (sorry, but there's no such thing) Robert Langdon and minxy sleuthette Sophie Neveu for cheap...
...from corporate America. And all the available legislative evidence of the past quarter-century supports that view. "All the politicians--it doesn't matter which side of the aisle you're on--rely heavily on the donations from Big Business," he says, "and Big Business likes this system [of cheap illegal labor]. Unfortunately, in the post-9/11 world, this system puts us in jeopardy...
...making. The government doesn't want to fix it, and politicians, as usual, are dodging the issue, even though public-opinion polls show that Americans overwhelmingly favor a crackdown on illegal immigration. To be sure, many citizens quietly benefit from the flood of illegals because the supply of cheap labor helps keep down the cost of many goods and services, from chicken parts to lawn care. Many big companies, which have an even clearer stake in cheap labor, aggressively fend off the enforcement of laws that would shut down their supply of illegal workers...
...unforgiving low-wage business culture-the dark shame of Mexico's political and economic leaders, which NAFTA was also supposed to reform-makes sure that they still often pay in a day what similar work would pay in an hour in the U.S. Add the recent deluge of dirt-cheap Chinese imports into North America that are taking business previously provided by Mexico, and the urgency for Mexican workers to head north only heightens...
...cold shoulder on Capitol Hill. It started last December when House Judiciary Committee chairman James Sensenbrenner, without informing the business lobby in Washington, whipped through a draconian immigration bill that targeted the so-called "jobs magnet" - agribusiness, service sector, construction and other industries that eagerly, and often illegally, employ cheap, undocumented immigrant labor to cut costs. The law would have stripped business of much of its semi-skilled laborers by forcing undocumented workers to leave the country, would have jacked up fines on employers for hiring illegals and would have required businesses to check the identities of prospective hires with...