Word: rogat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...workers' wages stagnated. Between 1979 and 1995, some 43 million jobs were lost through corporate downsizing. Newly created jobs paid less and offered fewer benefits. Sharp cutbacks in federal grants since 1981 mean that 1 of 3 students works and attends school at the same time. Says Paul Rogat Loeb, author of Generation at the Crossroads, a study of college students: "The issue today is finding a job--in a fragmented workplace--that will allow them to avoid being crushed by their loan payment...
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