Word: training
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Eastern side will next fly to New Orleans to train for the Battle of New Orleans Rugby Tournament (January...
EVEN when they concede that point, conservative critics insist that a sub-minimum, or "training wage" is needed so that unskilled teenagers can gain experience in the job market. Businesses, the argument goes, would hire and train more teenagers if only their labor were cheap enough. Of course, as the minimum wage stagnated, the cost of teenage labor declined dramatically in real terms since 1981, but teenage employment rates have not risen...
...argument for permitting firms to "train" teenagers at a penurious wage is equally faulty. Proponents of a training wage would allow a sub-minimum wage for youths aged 16 to 18. Does it really take two years to be "trained" at floor sweeping and cash register banging...
Remember Brian Wilson? The guy who lost his legs trying to stop nuclear weapons from being transported by train? Well, 20 diehard fans are squatting on the tracks at North and South Station. They won't let any trains...
...exit points when he tries to leave. On all the highways, at the airport," said a spokesperson for the squad. "We hear the fans have the train stations sealed...