Word: underpaid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their wages with detail work, which they perform in full uniform. They usually make between $10 and $15 an hour, and many work 40 or more extra hours a week. The department's pay scale has also led to problems in recruiting qualified applicants. "Everybody knows they are grossly underpaid," says Neil Gallagher, FBI special agent in charge of the New Orleans office. "And still people wonder why there is corruption...
...their wages with detail work, which they perform in full uniform. They usually make between $10 and $15 an hour, and many work 40 or more extra hours a week. The department's pay scale has also led to problems in recruiting qualified applicants. "Everybody knows they are grossly underpaid," says Neil Gallagher, FBI special agent in charge of the New Orleans office. "And still people wonder why there is corruption...
...illogic of any crackdown is that most studies of Latino immigrants show they have a strong work ethic, tight-knit families and a low use of public services. Despite being underpaid and undereducated, few cross the border to collect welfare. A recent study of census data showed that 16.9% of Latino immigrants in Los Angeles County received public assistance in 1990, compared with 41.7% of the non-Latino white population and 64.6% of blacks...
...series of foul-ups had left the space station in a precarious state. A resupply mission scheduled for late July had to be canceled for lack of a rocket. And while a previous mission arrived without a hitch, the edibles had mostly disappeared -- looted, say insiders, by underpaid, overworked ground-support technicians...
...risky move may have saved Russia's manned space program from extinction. If the manual attempt had failed, the three cosmonauts on board Mir would have had to abandon the craft and board an emergency re-entry vehicle. High jinks on the ground made their predicament far worse: underpaid ground-support technicians stole many of their edibles before takeoff, and the cosmonauts were subsisting on recycled wastewater and food two years past its expiration date. There were international cheers for the rescue mission, but it has also raised doubts among the partners who have joined with Russia for future space...