Word: waged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these Codes in effect, there will be no place for injustices to hide. Ahsan's disquieting image of children "rummaging through rubbish heaps" can be replaced by an image of children being decently housed, clothed and fed because their parents are guaranteed by the Code of Conduct a living wage from the factories. Ahsan indicates that this "argument" is not good enough because it does not consider the childrens' education, their only way out of the "poverty trap." Clearly, though, the living wage enables the childrens' education because it frees them from the desperate necessity to work rather than attend...
...argument can be made that we could ban child labor by simultaneously implementing a living wage requirement for adults. Such a living wage would then allow parents to provide for their families without having the children go out and work. While attractive, this proposal ignores the fact that there would still be no incentive for children to get an education under a living wage scenario, even assuming that such a wage is sufficient to allow two adults to enroll their 4.5 kids in schools. The poorest classes in developing countries might not fully realize the long-run value...
Brother Bill has helped a few gangsters on the road to employment--one now works as a freight-elevator supervisor, another as an electrician--but most aren't interested in the regimen of daily employment or in earning a minimum wage, and that's not how Brother Bill keeps score either. As the outside world rolls on, William Wylie Tomes Jr. continues to cruise the projects in that silver Park Avenue, conducting his nonjudgmental, never-ending search for his people...
...facility in Flint, Mich., he'd add a new scene. Heartened, Weinstein whipped out a notepad. Would that be a shoe factory or a warehouse? Moore, who can't keep a straight face at gunpoint, fought back tears of incredulity. Anything that'll employ 500 people at a livable wage, he replied. Weinstein promised to get back...
...question and answer period. One student asked the filmmaker if he wished America had the same socialist reforms that have led to economic distress in several European nations. Moore answered the question vaguely, stating that America needs more "economic democracy" and that more people needed to earn a "livable wage." The student seemed disappointed with Moore's answer...