Word: labors
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...Population Survey, which has measured unemployment every month since March 1940. The process - which aside from computerization and expansion has not fundamentally changed over the years - centers on interviews with a rotating sampling of 60,000 households. Workers are sorted into three categories: employed, unemployed and not in the labor force. To be counted as unemployed, a worker must have "actively looked for work" in the past month - a definition some analysts say is too narrow to capture the breadth of the economic pain. A more realistic one, they argue, would include discouraged workers who have looked for work within...
Protesting a sharp increase in their health insurance premiums, about 20 of Harvard’s security guards and a small contingent of the campus Student Labor Action Movement group rallied in Harvard Square yesterday afternoon to advocate more affordable health care coverage...
Union members will meet with Harvard’s Labor and Employee Relations Director William Murphy this morning to discuss the possibility of extending Harvard’s health care plans to the security guards...
...finish line is really in sight," Reid said as he unveiled his bill, which was a hybrid of legislation previously okayed by the Senate Finance Committee and the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. But no one knows better than Reid that it is still going to take a lot to get there...
...host is unpredictable South Africa Following the sleek, well-organized World Cups hosted by Germany in 2006 and co-hosted by Japan and South Korea in 2002, South Africa has been beset by difficulties from the beginning, including construction delays, labor strikes and questions over adequate transportation links and security for hundreds of thousands of fans. But the tournament's organizers are confident these problems will be resolved in time. Since the end of apartheid, the country has hosted successful cricket and rugby World Cups, and the country hopes the soccer tournament will mark a new moment of unity...