Word: waged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, job, wage, pension and insurance inequities persist. "We've come a long way, but we have a long way to go," says Rose Bird, former chief justice of the California Supreme Court. "It's part of our heritage to rectify past injustices, and the Constitution is no exception." Without an ERA, some feminists argue, the American charter will continue to bear the sexist imprint of a document written...
Most American Indians on reservations earn less than $7,000 a year. At least 35% are unemployed, and those who do work tend to be found in low-wage jobs. Roughly two-thirds live off the reservation, where they often find themselves % unprepared for urban life. Native Americans constitute one of the poorest of minorities and are likely to be less educated, more prone to illness, and more resistant to assimilation into the mainstream than any other ethnic group, even though they have been here the longest...
...care centers are so conscientious. Day-care staffers rank in the lowest 10% of U.S. wage earners, a fact that contributes to an average turnover rate of 36% a year. Says Caroline Zinsser of the Center for Public Advocacy Research in Manhattan: "It says something about our society's values that we pay animal caretakers more than people who care for our children." Gilda Ongkeko is delighted with the quality of the Hill an' Dale Family Learning Center in Santa Monica, Calif., attended by Jason, 4. In her job as owner of a preschool-supply company, she has come...
...from the human race. Some way, therefore, must be found to change the attitudes of the people who wish to use them. The educational exchange program is not a panacea, but it's the right way to approach the problem. Instead of expecting to restrain forever the capacity to wage war, you've got to change the attitude of the people who control these warmaking machines and who make the decisions to use them. We have to understand the Russians, among others, and ourselves better than we have in the past...
...United pilots had never forgiven Ferris for a bitter 1985 labor confrontation. The chairman demanded that United employees accept a two-tier wage system that would relegate newly hired pilots to a lower pay scale. In protest the pilots staged a 29-day strike, but Ferris prevailed and set up the new wage system anyway. He insisted that the carrier needed lower costs to meet the challenge of cut-rate competitors like Texas Air, which through a series of mergers has eclipsed Allegis to become the largest U.S. airline company, with both Continental and Eastern now under its wing...