Word: federales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bundled in gray garbage bags, 100 young men from Central America spend the night dozing against the brick wall of an Immigration and Naturalization Service center in Harlingen, Texas. On a muddy field in nearby Brownsville, 75 families endure a driving rainstorm crouched under plastic sheeting. At an abandoned hotel...
The most talked about subject in Washington last week was not the Bush transition, the budget deficit or the woes of Mayor Marion Barry, but one that is close to the heart of every bureaucrat -- and every American: pay raises. A salary-review board has proposed hefty pay hikes for...
The pay raise, nonetheless, is nearly certain to be adopted without a real debate. Unwilling to risk the wrath of their constituents by arguing publicly for salary hikes, lawmakers in 1967 devised a means of getting more money while ducking the blame. They established a Commission on Executive, Legislative and...
In December the commission suggested that top Government salaries be made more competitive. Accordingly, the President's pay would leap from $200,000 to $350,000 in 1993; Cabinet Secretaries' from $99,500 to $155,000; and most federal judges' from $89,500 to $135,000. President Reagan included those...
Apart from drying up a source of ethically questionable payments, the most convincing rationale for raising government pay is that better salaries will attract highly qualified people to government service. But while that logic may apply to the top-notch executives needed for senior posts in Cabinet departments and lawyers...