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...union laundry plants that make up 70%-80% of the industry, workers earn the minimum wage or just above it. Coin-operated laundries often pay less, sometimes as little as $3 an hour. Dry cleaners' wages average between $250 and $400 a week for about 60 hours. Workers are often pressured into reporting that they?ve worked fewer hours than they have, and non-union workers are forced to skip meal breaks...
...leaving school functionally illiterate. Pollack told me of one study that found even the sons of college-educated parents had a 1 in 4 chance of leaving school without becoming proficient readers. In an economy increasingly geared toward processing information, an inability to read becomes an inability to earn. "You have to be literate in today's world," says Sommers. "We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read...
...will be used to bolster public transportation, offering more eco- and traffic-friendly alternatives. While critics charge that the tax is regressive, since the proposed eight dollar fee will present more of a burden to poor motorists, they fail to note that a majority of automotive commuters earn above-average incomes, and that the tax means increased funding for buses and subways that are used disproportionately by less affluent residents...
Lynn Buchinsky is the kind of entrepreneur who isn't supposed to exist. Working just 12 hours a week, six months a year, she expects to earn more than $30,000 in 2007, thanks to the portable tennis program she created for day-care centers and schools in Solon, Ohio, just outside Cleveland. Launched last summer and designed for kids ages 3 to 11, Buchinsky's Little Racquets is different from other tennis lessons because it brings all the equipment--even the net--directly to the schools. That means parents don't have to shuttle their kids back and forth...
...sheet of obscenity and drug charges. The Mitchells also brought the world such adult-film classics as the 1972 Marilyn Chambers vehicle Beyond the Green Door, a $60,000 flesh romp that admirers would extol (seriously) for its plot, camera angles and musical score. It went on to earn the brothers $30 million on their investment. As Jim once philosophized: "The only art in this business is my brother Art." But success came with a heavy price tag. In 1991 Jim shot and killed his brother while trying, according to Jim, to persuade him to stop drinking and ended...