Word: poore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what will the higher minimum wage really mean to the working poor? Though economists are skeptical about business's claims that the increase will lead to large numbers of lost jobs, they also question whether it will do much to improve the lot of low-wage workers. Only about 4 million of the nation's 60 million hourly workers make the minimum wage or less, about 40% of them teenagers. The $6,968 earned annually by a full-time minimum-wage employee is $2,467 less than the federal poverty line for a family of three. Even when...
...outraged to read in The Crimson that Dean of the Law School Robert C. Clark is worried about providing too many litigation services to the poor. The last I heard, low-income Americans were hardly in danger of being over represented in court...
...everyday lives of individual people. Contrary to Clark's characterization of student philosophy, I am here to learn how to assess problems and to implement their solutions. Clark may be correct that an "indiscriminate supply of legal services" will not meet all the needs of this nation's poor, just as a steady flow of aid did not end famine in Africa...
...nine-year logjam on the minimum wage is finally broken," said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.), a key architect of the compromise. "The working poor are about to receive an increase, although it is not as much as they deserve...
Surely it is the responsibility of a society as wealthy as ours to ensure that no one has to sleep on a grate. Just as surely, it is the height of unfairness to take away housing funds from the poor while maintaining lavish deductions for middle-and upper-class homeowners. Congress should eliminate this $32 billion dollar handout to the wealthy and use that money to provide adequate housing for the truly needy...