Word: minimum
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...academic index breaks down athletes' standardized test scores and high school class ranks to assure they are above a minimum standard. Each applicant is rated in three categories. SAT I, SAT II (formerly achievement tests) and class rank...
...Harlem [alone], 300 people, most of them black, apply every month for a handful of openings for jobs that pay $4.25 an hour (Jonathan Kaufman, Wall Street Journal, Jun. 6, 95). Newman goes on: "On average, fast-food restaurants in the area have 14 job applicants for every minimum-wage opening.... Most blacks seeking work at Harlem fast-food chains have applied for four or five other jobs." Newman's study suggests to me that "poor blacks" in the "inner-cities" are looking more intensely for jobs than for "a helping hand" from Uncle...
There are less risky ways to dampen the effects of cheap foreign labor on American wages, but they are the tools of Democrats, not Republicans. Trade deals like NAFTA can require member nations to have a high minimum wage, maintain strict environmental regulations or guarantee the right to unionize. Such rules directly confront the problems of inhumanely low wages and reckless environmental degradation--the Third World production shortcuts that Buchanan says justify his social tariff. But Buchanan's ideology won't countenance this solution since it involves the transnational panels of adjudication that he deems inimical to sovereignty...
...same economist who invented the misery index--Arthur Okun, Chairman of Lyndon Johnson's Council of Economic Advisers. In 1975 he published a book called Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff. Its point was that there is natural tension between the two halves of its title. Redistributive taxation, minimum wages, unemployment insurance and the like may enhance equality, but they impede overall efficiency and growth. Ideology is partly a question of which side of the tradeoff you favor...
...record on race relations. He has stood by affirmative action and supported the idea of the Million Man March. It is too early to tell how much damage he will suffer politically, but he will definitely lose some ground." The current law, which will continue, keeps a five-year minimum sentence for possessing five grams of crack. The U.S. Sentencing commission, a panel set up by Congress, recommended in June that penalties for crack and powdered cocaine be equalized...