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...Undergraduate volunteers, like other tourists, come to the French Quarter to experience the city’s culture. Organizers say the service trips are meant to be as much an education as a labor donation. When the students weren’t gutting homes or working with elementary school children, they were listening to the stories of survivors or watching local artists perform. They wanted to understand the city. Coming to clubs like Fat Catz is a part of that process...
Primarily those without high school degrees. Harvard economist George Borjas estimates that the influx of foreign-born laborers has shaved the incomes of U.S. high school dropouts as much as 8%--and taken their jobs in industries like food service and construction. Of the 4.8 million net new workers who entered the labor force from 2000 to 2005, 4.1 million were recent immigrants, says Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University. "If you're young and male and a high school dropout, chances are you've been displaced by an illegal immigrant," he says...
...some shifty employers may still exploit workers they can keep off the books, "I really don't think most serious corporations want that," says Jagdish Bhagwati, an economist at Columbia University. That's because, says John Gay, a lobbyist for the National Restaurant Association, "a steady supply of dependable labor is more important [than minimum wage] to employers trying to grow their business." Forecasts of labor shortages spook some employers; restaurants expect 15% job growth over 10 years, while the labor force is predicted to grow only...
Immigrant workers pluck our grapes, stock our shelves, grill our burgers and clean our offices--for pay that lets us keep our own wallets plumper. Moreover, their domestic labor gives their employers more time to put into higher-paying work and leisure time. A vibrant laborer population could even create white-collar jobs, says Daniel Griswold, an immigration expert for the Cato Institute--say, for hotel managers hired to oversee expanding staffs. "Immigrant workers," he says, "make the economy more flexible, more dynamic...
...outrageous? Harvard’s wages!,” protestors moved from the Holyoke Center to the Harvard University Dining Services headquarters to University Hall, where the administration was filtering in to a 4 p.m. Faculty Meeting. The protest was organized by Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) as part of the 2006 National Student Labor Week of Action. The hour-long protest was the first in SLAM’s semester-long “Right To Organize” campaign. In March, the group held a teach-in to inform students about alleged human rights...