Word: wage
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DIED. HERBERT STEIN, 83, economist and former Nixon adviser; in Washington. Stein, a chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, was a key architect of Nixon's policies, including battling inflation through wage controls. But he eschewed ideological loyalty in favor of common sense and was critical of policies of Reagan and Bush...
...Hoxby had long researched income and wage inequalities among recent college graduates, and this study sums up that work in laymen's terms. Its method is simple, comparing the amount of money paid for college and the amount received in wages...
Students involved in campus activist groups such as the Living Wage Campaign and the Coalition Against Sexual Violence organized a walk-out and rally that took place during Commencement Day exercises...
...need a complete cradle-to-grave welfare state, but we do need social programs to be motivated by something other than noblesse oblige. As author Mickey Kaus noted in a New York Times commentary earlier this year, the Medicare program is not charity, and neither is the minimum wage...
...Poverty-wage labor should be a source of embarrassment to every Harvard administrator," said Living Wage Campaign member Amy C. Offner '01. "And we intend to make...