Word: waged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...family cannot live on minimum wage," said York, who insisted that society needs to be more inclusive of families and low-wage workers in its perception of homelessness. "The traditional image we have is kind of like that image they paint of women on welfare--it simply is not true...
...real world does occasionally intrude on campus, though. After a several-year lull in student protest, activism roared back this spring when a three-part rally descended on University Hall calling for a living wage, an end to sweatshop-produced goods and sterner protections against rape (two students were recently dismissed from the College after pleading guilty to sexual assault). Curmudgeonly professor Harvey C. Mansfield '53 called the protest "idiotic," but most are glad to see the student body shedding its recent apathy...
Student members of the Living Wage Campaign distributed leaflets at designated classes throughout the morning and at the Class of 1969 dinner at the Faculty Club...
...What we would really like to do is to drivetowards a living wage for graduate studentinstructors," Olmsted says. "Currently, gradstudents [in Ann Arbor] don't get paid as well aspublic school teachers in the most impoverishedschool districts where they receive considerablymore per hour than grad students. We feel that ahigher level of compensation is merited...
...What we would really like to do is to drive towards a living wage for graduate student instructors," Olmsted said. "Currently, grad students [in Ann Arbor] don't get paid as well as public school teachers in the most impoverished school districts where they receive considerably more per hour than grad students. We feel that a higher level of compensation is merited...