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Employers need your Social Security number to pay you--but that doesn't mean they have to print it on your company badge or make it your log-in to access work schedules (one of the complaints in the Union Pacific case). With the rise in identity theft, companies, including UP, are starting to change their ways. Consider asking your personnel and IT departments to give you a different employee number. Citing stats on ID theft might help your case...
...issue--do not. So Democrats are sharpening their attacks on the G.O.P. for seeming out of step with public opinion. Senator Hillary Clinton of New York has led a Democratic effort to block a scheduled $3,300 increase in congressional pay--the typical lawmaker's salary would rise to $168,500 a year--unless Republicans agree to hike the minimum wage to $7.25. The Dems are also emulating the Republican gay-marriage strategy by backing ballot measures in six states to boost the minimum wage. They hope voters will go to the polls for this cause, then support Democrats...
That clash of visions is not confined to Mexico. Similar battles are raging throughout Latin America, which is witnessing the rise of a generation of politicians seeking to capitalize on frustration with the free-market, pro-American policies commonly pursued in the region in the 1990s, when much was promised and little was accomplished in terms of raising living standards. The leader of this turn toward populism is Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, who has cast himself as the heir to Fidel Castro, using his country's oil bonanza to purchase political influence all over the continent. But in recent...
India Ascending A democracy of more than 1 billion people, many profiting from a reformed economy, India is turning itself into a primary player in the global marketplace. Readers welcomed the rise of a free society, although not without a few misgivings from Americans about what it means for U.S. workers...
...Cover Story on the rise of India was outstanding. Visitors in the past might have felt India's problems were overwhelming, but there is hope for the masses of the subcontinent. It goes to show what can be accomplished by millions of people with a work ethic, an appreciation for education, a culture of thrift and family, and a recognition of the value of being able to speak English well in the global marketplace. PAUL H. GORE Oakland...