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...workers--once earned enough to pay their rent but are now squeezed between high housing costs and stagnant wages, worsened by the recession. While the minimum wage of $5.15 has not changed since 1997, housing costs in 10 cities surveyed by the National Coalition for the Homeless, among them Oakland, Calif., and Minneapolis, Minn., have shot up between 19% and 26% this year alone. That means a family must earn at least $13.87 an hour, a wage few hope to attain, to pay for a two-bedroom apartment...
...hits, stole 56 bases and played a fine right field, showing about as good an outfield throwing arm as now exists. Newspaper accounts were busy with statistics and with reporting Suzuki's close run for the prize against Jason Giambi, a mighty power hitter who lumbered about for the Oakland Athletics. The larger point may sound simplistic. Suzuki is Asian. Were this 1945, not 2001, neither he nor Barry Bonds, the African-American who was just named MVP in the National League, would have been permitted even to compete in what ball players call "The Bigs...
Although the possible hit list also includes the Florida Marlins, Tampa Bay Devil Rays and Oakland A's, the other bleeding candidate for "contraction" is the Minnesota Twins. Unlike the Expos, the Twins have loyal fans and a competitive if inexperienced team. But the state's flinty taxpayers have refused to chip in for a new stadium to replace the charmless Metrodome, meaning that the Twins can't enhance revenues from skyboxes and naming rights and such. The Twins also have an owner, billionaire banker Carl Pohlad, who has been unwilling to invest in big salaries. "It makes no sense...
Alas, in reading over through the neatly printed sentences and paragraphs, one realizes the truth: for Neil Rudenstine’s speeches, as for Gertrude Stein’s Oakland, there is no there there. Our former president speaks in platitudes; he borrows other men’s insights to fill the spaces in his speeches where insight and originality ought to find a home. “All of us recognize that we are now actors in a drama that has become global in nature,” he tells one audience; another is informed that...
...Twins should not be contracted, because as a Triple A club, staying competitive throughout a season is possible. Only revenue sharing can boost Triple A teams to the same level as parent organizations. However, as Oakland proved this season, a Triple A team has the capability of making the playoffs, if everything falls into place...