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...Minnesota prisons. The victim and the convict must work out a written contract. Forger Jerry Bixby, for instance, is now working to pay a debt of $643 in installments of $33 a month. When the victim refuses to cooperate, a symbolic contract establishes a set number of hours of unpaid volunteer work to make good the crime...
Alternative Voice. The short, wiry Troy runs the Observer from an old red brick bungalow in Oklahoma City, three blocks from the capitol. Though he prints a few articles from unpaid contributors, he fills most of the twelve-page paper himself. His wife (and co-publisher) Helen keeps the books and stuffs papers into mailing envelopes at their modest suburban home. He often warns subscribers to "worry about a newspaper when it earns enough for the publisher to join the country club." That is not something that Troy's readers need fear. The Observer lost $18,000 during...
...present prices. But, he warns, "too many people overspend the first time"; fancy tools and equipment (such as a $200 compost maker) of course reduce the savings. And Fell's calculations do not include whatever value the home gardener might care to put on his or her unpaid labor...
...reason for the firing was that the Massachusetts Minimum Wage Commission demanded that Harvard pay these workers the statutory minimum wage of 37.5 cents per hour. Harvard claimed that its 35-cent wages actually did meet the legal minimum. The reason was that the women were given an unpaid 20-minute rest period during their 5-hour day, and this rest was worth the extra 2.5 cents per hour to the workers. If the janitors found their pay inadequate, they could take a second...
...many incumbents, particularly in the House, mortally fear such subsidies as a free ride for challengers. Some conservatives fret that public financing, especially if it is combined with strict limitations on private contributions, would give a big edge to liberal, issue-oriented candidates who can mobilize unpaid volunteers-students, housewives, union members. As Herbert E. Alexander, director of the nonprofit Princeton-based Citizens' Research Foundation, points out: "For a person with money, it's easier to write out a check than it is to give time...