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...Rated Almanac (World Almanac; $14.95), a new book ranking 250 professions by such criteria as salary, security, stress, outlook and work conditions. Krantz downgrades jobs that look best to kids, putting garbage collector (No. 226) ahead of dancer (240), football player (241) and cowboy (242). Last on the list: migrant farm worker (250). At No. 1 is a job that few children even know about: actuary...
Despite all the difficulties associated with going to school in what Alaskans call "the lower 48," the limitations of the Alaskan school system prompt them to travel far from home. The state government has traditionally recognized this necessity by loaning its migrant students approximately $5000 apiece toward each year's tuition, says Anchorage resident Scott Hunt...
...hardly believeable that the Review was simply offering fair and legitimate criticism. Although Baldwin denied any malicious intent in the Review's attack, he allowed such flattering statements to be printed about the professor as "he looks like a junkie," "he isn't qualified to be a migrant fruit picker," and "if professors had to take English 5, Bill Cole would be out on the street...
Jackson's campaign is one that sides with the unions and the dispossessed and promises to bring an end to corporate power. He notes in speeches to migrant workers, laid off laborers, and unemployed youths, that the major corporations of this country pay less in taxes than do the average American. Taxes will be raised under a Jackson presidency. Those who will be paying are Exxon and General Motors, IBM and Bechtel...
Chronicling the life of 1950s teen-idol Ritchie Valens (Lou Diamond Phillips), La Bamba is an ode to the American middle-class dream. The film opens with the Valenzuela family, a group of Mexican immigrants, working as California migrant workers...