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...wage floor of $10.25 per hour for all Harvard employees. The Crimson typesetting was expected to employ 20 Cambodian typisis working two six-hour shifts a day on 10 computers for six months. The typists earn $50 a month, better than the $45 minimum wage paid in the garment sector, Cambodia’s biggest industry...
...jumped there." He points to a roof three houses away. Did he jump or run? asks the police chief. Navesh falters and summons his sister-in-law, who says she got a better glimpse. "It looked like someone in a black burka (the head-to-toe garment worn by some Muslim women). It flew across to the other roof." Gogia frowns. Other residents of the house push forward with their description. "I looked up and saw this black thing with shining red eyes on the roof. When it saw me it jumped down and disappeared," says Subhash. The stories...
PSLM is sitting in against inequality. Inequality that’s big, that’s global, that affects Domna as much as it affects the garment workers in Indonesia, the diamond miners in South Africa and the students at Harvard. PSLM has made inequality easy for us to understand. A living wage, a floor below which no one should sink. A standard of living. Harvard’s direct responsibility to those it employs. Harvard’s ability to make up the difference...
Jackie answered with the famous comeback that to spend that much, "I would have to wear sable underwear." Yet in no time, Pat Nixon was telling reporters how she bought American designers and that she got them straight off the rack. Jack Kennedy was also courting the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union, whose powerful president, David Dubinsky, was cautioning J.F.K. that his wife had to buy American. Jackie could see what the press would make her into. She wrote in despair to a friend: "I refuse to be the Marie-Antoinette...of the 1960s...
...name, but not much else. She never knew her parents, having been raised by a foster mother. When her college was flooded by mud slides from the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991, the school relocated and Barge couldn't afford the commute. She tried getting work at the garment factories now prospering on the former base. But each time she carefully combed back her curly hair and went for an interview, the managers turned her away. Only a handful of mixed-race Filipinos have landed jobs at Clark Special Economic Zone, where thousands of other locals have found work...