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Last week their position looked more precarious than ever. The Labor Department reported that despite the exuberant stock market and mild inflation, real wages keep on falling. For the lowest-earning 10% of workers, the weekly paycheck averaged $225 last year, a 10% drop since the late '70s after inflation is taken into account. It means that more people than ever are working full time and still living below the poverty line of $15,141 for a family of four. Millions more are scraping by, just one broken refrigerator away from crisis. Says Labor Secretary Robert Reich...
...This is a bad phenomenon, and it's been happening a lot," says Patrick McCarthy, executive editor of Women's Wear Daily, which prohibits the practice. "It pollutes your editorial pages. How can you expect an editor to cover a designer objectively if that editor is also getting a paycheck from...
...Itake things like heat and electricity for granted:some guy shows up every few months and putzesaround my family's basement for awhile, but I'venever been sure if he's reading the gas meter orremoving the asbestos. I've never field a taxreturn form, or even had a paycheck automaticallydeposited into my account...
...urge an overhaul of the governance of HMC. I would propose that individuals who receive a paycheck from Harvard or who are charged with major decision-making at Harvard--with the exception of the University president and the president of HMC--not be on the board. I would propose that directors be elected from 1) the rolls of alumni as is the case with the Overseers and the Alumni Association and 2) one each from the graduate schools and the undergraduate ranks...
What would happen to this image if they received a paycheck in their lockers directly after leaving the court...