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...response to my letter in Thursday's Crimson (Oct. 24), Peter Ferrara claims that the figure of $10.90 I cite as the median daily earnings of a full-time farmworker includes only base pay and not piece work. This is simply not true. The figure comes from the Department of Agriculture's booklet, "The Hired Farm Working Force of 1970," which Mr. Ferrara will find in the Business School library. It includes base pay, piece work, and all other forms of cash payment, and is an average only over the days the worker can find employment. The same publication also...
...farmworkers are somehow rich, and Baker Library is too far for him to walk, he will find in Littauer another Department of Agriculture publication, "Income of Farm Wageworker Households in 1971." There he will discover that, for families whose head performs agricultural labor at least 150 days a year, median total family income is only slightly over $4000 a year, of 40 per cent of the national median for all families. He will find that only 16 per cent of such families (and these include skilled machine operators as well as field workers) make over $7500 a year, while over...
...Farmworkers were averaging $4.50 to $5.50 an hour with piece work before there was any union." According to the Department of Agriculture, median daily earnings of full time farmworkers (those working on farms for over 150 days a year) were only $10.90 in 1970. Mr. Ferrara's claim that UFW statistics come from averaging full and part time workers' annual wages is simply not true. Malcolm Lovell, Assistant Secretary of Labor, has testified that the average Chicano family of six, all working full time in the fields, makes $3,350 a year--hardly Mr. Ferrara...
Allison released what she termed "very raw median scores" from the test. Self-paced students generally scored 60 to 70 of a possible 110 points, students from conventional sections scored in the 50 to 60 range, and those who had never taken Ec 10 scored in the twenties...
...depression in the housing industry has had a double effect. Many people who want to buy a house now find that it is either beyond their means or they cannot find a mortgage for it. The median price of new houses in the U.S. has jumped to some $35,500, and mortgage rates now hover near 10%. Construction workers, from carpenters to lumberjacks, find that jobs are becoming scarcer every day. The situation is acute in what was one of the fastest-growing counties in the nation during the late 1960s and early 1970s. In New York's exurban...