Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story. Economist Walter Williams claims that the rising minimum wage almost guarantees maximum unemployment for the young and unskilled. Because of the unearned rise in hourly wages, how many people age 14 to 17 are out of a job? We've cut the bottom rung off the economic ladder...
...years ago. Indeed, the spirit of Russian constructivism-spare, idealizing, but wedded to primary forms and to the nature of industrial material-presides over Milow's work, lending it a subtle dignity. Tim Head's photo projections are studies in uncertainty. Images of ordinary things-a ladder, a bucket, a brick wall -are projected over arrangements of real objects, and the result is a brilliant melee of impressions, in which image and reality can hardly be told apart...
...officials at the federal prison at Lompoc, Calif, 170 miles north of Los Angeles, had no idea how cleverly he had diagnosed their security system. Shortly after sunset one day last week, the prisoner approached the ten-foot chain-link fence with a pair of wire cutters, a crude ladder he had fashioned and an odd device made of a toothbrush taped to one end of a broom handle. Knowing that any sudden movement of the fence would set off an electric alarm, he propped the ladder near a gatepost for added support. He shinnied up and, with his hand...
...around: "How else do you explain the massive change from waiter service to self-service in restaurants? How else do you explain the absence of ushers in movies and youngsters at supermarkets to take your bags to the car? We have cut the bottom rungs off the economic ladder, and the consequence is that for the first time in U.S. history, we have developed a permanent welfare class...
Williams also favors adopting the European-style apprentice system, in which young people work at relatively low wages for several years as assistants to skilled plumbers, carpenters or other craftsmen, learning their trade. Another way to help minorities onto that crucial first rung of the career ladder would be to ease or eliminate state licensing laws that keep many occupations tight and closed. Williams is appalled that "roughly 600 occupations are licensed in the U.S. In some states you need a license to be a cosmetologist or a landscaper. To become a commercial photographer in Texas, you need a negative...