Word: labors
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...Economics of CambridgeArea Four is a mere 10 minutes from Harvard Square, yet economic demographics reflect a wider disparity. These statistics represent the median family income, percentage of families below the poverty level and the percentage of labor force unemployed in Area Four and throughout Cambridge.Jenny M. Fu, Joshua J. SchankerCrimsonCity Income Poverty UnemploymentEast Cambridge $37,013 2.8% 6.0%MIT/Area 2 25,000 13.0 3.2Wellington-Herrington 32,615 8.6 6.5Area 4 26,836 18.6 10.8Cambridgeport 32,432 6.9 5.7Mid-Cambridge 50,272 3.5 3.7Riverside 32,746 9.9 4.4Agassiz 55,407 1.1 4.0Area...
Such hymns to synergy grate on the loose coalition of consumer advocates, labor and industry groups fighting the merger. "The industry is moving in the exact opposite direction of competition," fumes Bradley Stillman of the Consumer Federation of America. He may not be factoring in the World Wide Web, the information network that links computers and perhaps eventually phones and televisions. Bell Atlantic, says Smith, will offer Internet access and Web-based software even as it fights for long-distance, cellular and wireless turf. "This is not going to be a fight over plain old telephones," he vows...
After repeated appeals to management and to their United Auto Workers local brought no relief, several women employees sought out Patricia Benassi, a prominent Peoria lawyer experienced in labor-relations cases, who began filing complaints with the EEOC. Almost immediately, reprisals began. One complainant found her car scratched and defaced; another was forced off the road as she drove home from work. Anonymous callers made such threats as, "You better watch your back, bitch...
Judging from the discussion among more than three dozen business and labor leaders, economists and family experts, the news is not good. "People have accommodated all they can accommodate. They have made the trade-offs to get a better quality of life, and it is still insufficient," says Paula Rayman, the institute's director. "The workplace really hasn't changed much, and public policies haven't kept up with the social changes. So what are we going to do? It's a very challenging moment...
...scapegoats--the government, welfare mothers, the private sector," says Marina Von Neumann, former chief economist for General Motors. "But there just aren't any scapegoats." Yet the flip side of that, points out Ann Bookman, policy and research director of the women's bureau of the Department of Labor, is that "no one sector can take this on single-handedly...