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Precollege drinking is especially worrisome given a central finding of recent alcohol research. Dr. Hoover Adger, professor and pediatrician at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md., has found that children who start drinking before age 15 are five times more likely to be alcohol dependent as adults. According to other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Manage Teen Drinking (The Smart Way) | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

Johns Hopkins University, for example, put in place a $7.75 wage floor in 1999, independent of the city of Baltimore? own living wage figure.

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University Makes Sense of Living Wage Figure | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

In response to student campaign for a living wage, the Johns Hopkins administration agreed that all direct and subcontracted employees would not earn less than $7.75 per hour by 2002. While the figure was close to Baltimore? then-living wage, the University administration chose not to adopt the mandatory wage...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University Makes Sense of Living Wage Figure | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

But student activists said they felt that the wage increases were moving too slowly and staged a sit-in last spring that resulted in the Johns Hopkins administration promising to accelerate the move to $7.75.

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University Makes Sense of Living Wage Figure | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

OShea said that Johns Hopkins has not conducted any studies to see whether the raise in wages has caused wage compression or resulted in an above normal level of lay-offs. The autonomy of each of the schools makes the figures simply too hard to calculate, he says.

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University Makes Sense of Living Wage Figure | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

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