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...some reason the defaulting students believe they are somehow better, that they can waive the rules everyone else plays by. They sit in the Ivory Tower thinking big thoughts while their debts go consciously unpaid. And who else is footing the bill but the average American taxpayer--the same taxpayer who struggles to make mortgage payments every month...
Compared with the entire mountain of debt owed by the 15 most heavily indebted Third World nations -- about $463 billion, of which $286 billion is owed to private banks -- the unpaid IOUs piled up before the Paris Club, while substantial, seem of only secondary importance. But before they begin their own painstaking sessions with debtors, the world's major banks often wait to see how club governments will react to requests for postponed loan repayment. The club also has an important effect on the cash flow of needy governments. Unlike banks, which postpone only the repayment of principal on loans...
...pending legislation would affect almost every aspect of the relationship between management and workers. If some leading congressional Democrats and their labor-union allies are successful, companies will have to pay a higher minimum wage, provide a Government-mandated menu of health-care benefits for all workers and offer unpaid leave and guaranteed job security to employees who leave work temporarily when they become parents. Other bills would set up new rules governing unionization, plant closings and on-the-job safety...
...leave of absence after she has a child. Although the Supreme Court ruled last January that states may require businesses to provide maternity leaves with job security, only 40% of working women receive such protection through their companies. Even for these, the leaves are generally brief and unpaid. This forces many women to return to work sooner than they would like and creates a huge demand for infant care, the most expensive and difficult child-care service to supply. The premature separation takes a personal toll as well, observes Harvard Pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton, heir apparent to Benjamin Spock...
...other mothers to handing him over to her police-officer husband at the station-house door when they worked alternating shifts. With their schedules in constant flux, there were snags every step of the way. Curtin was more fortunate than most workers: police- department policy allows a year of unpaid "hardship" leave for child care. She decided to invoke that provision...