Word: minimum
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...Where's the compassion? Most bipartisan groups that have recommended moving toward private accounts also call for a minimum guaranteed benefit to ensure that more seniors do not fall into poverty. Bush vows to preserve the existing safety net for survivors and disabled workers but, so far, he does not guarantee a high enough safety net for poorer workers, or for those who do not fare well in the stock market...
While serving a one-year sentence for larceny in the minimum-security institution at Davenport, Iowa, James Shelton, 26, worked during the day at a downtown shoe store and spent each night in his unlocked room. One day in November, 1977, he left for work and vanished...
...minimum wage law. A bill passed last year lifts the minimum wage from $2.65 an hour to $2.90 on Jan. 1, to $3.10 in 1980 and to $3.35 in 1981. Some White House aides think if the 1980 and 1981 increases were eliminated for younger workers-most likely those 21 and younger-as many as 450,000 jobs might open up for them. Carter will get strong opposition from union leaders, who argue that the change would tempt employers to replace unskilled adults with teenagers...
...Davis-Bacon Act. This law is more likely to be changed than the minimum wage. Davis-Bacon forces contractors working on federally aided construction projects to pay workers at the "prevailing" local wage. But, in administering the act, Labor Department officials often seek guidance only from local union chiefs, who quote the highest wage in the region. The White House is considering advising the Labor Department to become more objective and include some nonunion wages in its calculations...
...schools remain either 90% white or 90% nonwhite. The state board points out that state rules require every school to have a racial composition approximating that of the school system as a whole; yet in Chicago, where 23% of students are white and 77% are nonwhite, Hannon wants a minimum racial mix of only...