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...rent subsidies for tenants in existing rental housing, and (b) the production of new rental housing. The benefits allocated under this Section shall be distributed to applicants based upon demonstrated financial need, with preference given to long-time-resident, elderly or homeless citizens of the city of Cambridge, of low or moderate income...
...what will the higher minimum wage really mean to the working poor? Though economists are skeptical about business's claims that the increase will lead to large numbers of lost jobs, they also question whether it will do much to improve the lot of low-wage workers. Only about 4 million of the nation's 60 million hourly workers make the minimum wage or less, about 40% of them teenagers. The $6,968 earned annually by a full-time minimum-wage employee is $2,467 less than the federal poverty line for a family of three. Even when...
...dipped 20%, his commute is mercifully brief. At the wheel, he says, he no longer starts at the sound of a backfire for fear it might be a highway shooting. "We were tired of being in the fast lane," says Mary Cutlip, 36. "We wanted a more peaceable, low-key way of life. We wanted our kids to grow up at a slower pace...
...stunning comeback from the "Boeing bust" of the early 1970s, when the aircraft manufacturer slashed its work force from 105,000 to 38,000. Since the mid-1980s, the region's industries have diversified into computers, new fisheries and Pacific Rim trade. Unemployment has fallen to a 20-year low of 4.5%. Now business is so brisk at Boeing that not even a record-high work force of 110,000 is enough to meet production schedules. Last month 57,000 machinists went on strike at four Boeing plants, demanding a larger share of company profits. "We have gone through...
...sharpest U.S. reaction to Ortega's move came from liberal legislators who have long opposed U.S. aid to the guerrillas. Said one of them, Wisconsin Congressman David Obey: "Daniel Ortega is a fool and always has been." Despite Bush's initial outburst, the Administration's response otherwise remained low-key. That was due in part to a realization, as a senior Administration official put it, that "there's not the remotest chance Congress will okay the restoration of lethal aid." Congress abolished such assistance in February '88, later approving $49 million for food and medicine...