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...Department." Throughout Israel last week doctors were collapsing in emergency rooms or working with intravenous tubes hanging from their arms. Of the country's 28 hospitals most were handling nothing but emergency cases, and only four were functioning normally. The reason: 2,700 doctors, convinced that they are underpaid, had launched a hunger strike...
...asked to declare their incomes and pay taxes of about 40%. One-third were told that everyone in the group was supposed to pay 40%, another third were told that the others were paying 65%, the final third were told that the rest owed only 15%. Overall, the group underpaid its taxes by 25%. The worst offenders were those who believed their rates were higher than those of the others: they tried to evade one-third of their tax obligation. By contrast, those who thought they were paying relatively low taxes underestimated their tax bills by only...
...financial arrangements of the board will hardly cheer the poor or the shrinking number of underpaid, overburdened lawyers who represent them. The Georgia branch of the LSC has lost 100 of its 300 staff members. Offices in some towns have been closed; others are served only by circuit-riding lawyers. Community Legal Services of Philadelphia has decided that in order to stay afloat, it must jettison eviction cases, small-claims actions, child support and custody cases, contested divorces and many spouse-abuse complaints. The office still represents many clients appealing disqualifications from the Social Security disability program and wins back...
...nurses at Cambridge City Hospital, who, city manager Robert Healy agreed last night, are "underpaid" in comparison to staffers at other local municipal hospitals, have been working without a contract since July...
RESTAURANTS. Despite the often daunting price of dining out, restaurant busboys and dishwashers are among the most underpaid and overworked American laborers. In the past three years, California state investigators have inspected 2,835 Los Angeles restaurants and found that 65% of them were breaking wage laws...