Word: hire
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...White House announced Monday that this new standard will also affect nominees for 1,100 positions in the Clinton Administration. That this decision was based on political expediency is clear from two facts. First, the standard applies only to appointees requiring Senate approval. Anyone Clinton can hire without oversight will not be asked about a "Zoe Baird problem...
...personally will be disappointed if they just hire all right-wing women," Koh said...
Nevertheless, the immigration laws impose stiff penalties on families that hire undocumented workers. Under the 1986 statutes, employers and foreign workers must sign a declaration that the employees have proper working papers. The punishment for knowingly hiring illegal aliens can include fines and six months in prison...
...those who don't and get away with it. Baird's story of the difficulty of finding safe, reliable child care might have won her the sympathy of millions of parents who face the same predicament. But when a couple with a net worth of more than $2 million hire not only an undocumented nanny but a driver as well, when they fail to pay the Social Security and workers' compensation taxes they owe, when a topflight corporate lawyer married to a renowned Yale law professor blames their troubles on "bad legal advice," the sympathy hardens into fury. As consumer...
...else's plight. "This is a crowd that doesn't have the stature to demand sacrifice," says Kevin Phillips, author of the new book Boiling Point: Republicans, Democrats and the Decline of Middle Class Prosperity. "These are people who spent Vietnam in Oxford; they are $500,000 lawyers who hire illegal immigrants as baby-sitters; they are hotshot lobbyists. This group has no understanding of the kind of sacrifices made every day by the $26,000-a-year couple in Peoria, Illinois. They don't speak the language of the older generation that fought in World...