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...essence of Shipler's message is that working poverty is a seamless web of challenges, some personal, some erected by a society content to let the federal minimum wage languish at $5.15 an hour. And that's for those who can avoid the unscrupulous bosses who make workers falsify their time sheets so they work longer hours for the same pay. Then there are the fruit pickers who have exorbitant housing costs deducted by labor contractors who warehouse the workers in filthy barracks. As for garment workers, they can be paid at piece rates--try three-fourths of a cent...
...Sunday New York Times - specifically in its magazine and its Arts and Leisure section, with essayish reports on social trends and features on and criticism of music, film and art. But the Times, like most journalistic enterprises these days, is avid to get younger; ?CBS SM? is content to be late middle-age (though it keeps in excellent shape). I don?t mean to shove this notion in the show?s face, but ?CBS SM? is a newsmagazine show for alter-kockers...
...compilation and the Sarah 100. Informing the 60s sound and its topical fixation on childish love, Camera Obscura sing slyly ironic lyrics that show abounding self-deprecation. The chorus of lilting opener “Suspended From Class” demonstrates this compromise between form and content best: “I should be suspended from my class,” ethereal lead singer Tracy-Anne Campbell sings, “I don’t know my elbow from...
...boasts excellent songwriting and a warm, appealing sound that swells as a result of crisp production and sweeping arrangements. The unabashed sincerity of the band’s lyrics is a bit off-putting under this cozy guise, but perhaps the only consequence of image and sound against lyrical content is a doubly-detached indie irony, and the legions that will wrongly decry them as rip-offs...
...online form was similar in content to the evaluations currently used in undergraduate courses and included both multiple choice and free answer questions concerning course material, professors, and teaching fellows...