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...relatively wealthy countries, the demand is urgent. In Britain, an average farmer earns somewhere between $18,000 and $27,000 a year, according to Philip Clarke, the Europe editor of Farmers Weekly magazine. If you take the long working hours into account, Clarke adds, that's below the minimum wage. Not surprisingly, a 2002 study by Exeter University found that about 60% of farms were engaged in some form of diversification, ranging from contracting out labor and machinery to running a bed-and-breakfast. "It used to be a question of farmers' wives offering rooms on the side...
...budding feminism. While the suffragists of the First Wave marched for the vote, and the Second Wave feminists cried out against legal gender discrimination, there was no tangible Third Wave I could join. And too cash-strapped to burn my bras, I didn’t know how to wage my fight...
...might have cost more, in legal fees and in distraction to the business, to wage a long battle against the government than to pay the money and be done with it,” he wrote. “When the government doesn’t care about the truth, or the merits of the claims they bring, but people who run private businesses value their time and have to pay their lawyers, you will see perverse outcomes like this...
...giant retailer by female employees. But the company mistreats all workers. As your story noted, there are more than 30 lawsuits that accuse Wal-Mart of cheating employees out of overtime pay. The company has fought to keep out labor unions, and pays hourly workers a very low wage. Your report overemphasized the retailer's discrimination against women, suggesting that paying women less than men is more serious than paying poverty-level wages for all hourly employees. That attitude could be considered a kind of gender discrimination--against male hourly workers--and it keeps society from creating true equality...
...Billionaires themselves can be a bit fuzzy on their unironic identity when it goes beyond their talking points on class-based issues like health care, the minimum wage and war profiteering. Members are prohibited from explicitly endorsing any presidential candidate out of character—and indeed, when the group was founded on a smaller level in 2000 it called itself “Billionaires for Bush or Gore...