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...smaller increase lost, but it is unlikely Massachusetts will get a better class of men for its legislators until it pays a better wage. The passage of the referendum simply denying a pay raise for the second time sweeps the question of what to do about the woefully underpaid ($5200 per year) legislature under the rug. Simultaneously, however, voters approved a pay hike for Boston policemen, boosting their starting salary to $6900. Neither salary is adequate, but the legislators ought not to be put under a greater compulsion to steal for a living than the police...
Last week, Bennett, who may be the best penologist in U.S. history, retired from a career that he began in 1927 as an obscure Government efficiency expert investigating federal prisons. What he found was 19 scandal-tainted Siberias jammed with idle, desperate cons and untrained, underpaid guards. Bennett's reports led in 1930 to creation of the Justice Department's Bureau of Prisons, which he took over in 1937. A measure of his devotion is eight pioneering federal penal laws with which he has been associated, including the 1964 Criminal Justice Act financing legal aid for federal defendants...
...poor government clerk, Togliatti now was building himself a villa among the rich near fashionable Porto Santo Stefano, and-politically-continued his do-gooder tactics. If filling-station attendants were underpaid, if a bridge fell down, if water was cut off from Rome, it was the Communists who led the protest. Faced with a milk shortage, Togliatti could be heard to say earnestly: "For a whole week now, there has not been enough milk in the cafes to make a cappuccino. That is terrible." He kept insisting that he had no intention of imposing Communism on Italy, that he only...
Poverty. Finally, Johnson flew to New York to address the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union on the 50th anniversary of its Health Center and became the Defender of the Downtrodden and the Crusader Against Poverty. Said he: "We will help the underprivileged and the underpaid by extending minimum wage and unemployment compensation. We have mounted an attack upon the final fortresses of poverty. We will continue the hundred years' struggle to give every American-of every race and color-equal opportunity in American society...
...which is the best measure of the patient's ability to pay. By far the biggest factor in hospitals' rising costs has been salaries and wages -and, most surprisingly, it is the professional and nursing staffs that have taken most of the increase, and not the notoriously underpaid housekeeping and kitchen employees...