Word: waged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...programs to which voters seem attached, such as low-income home-energy assistance and environmental enforcement. Moderates within the G.O.P. are likely to use their increased leverage to block major cuts in those areas. Democrats will be happy to join that fight or start their own over the minimum wage, funding for school construction and for children's health--if only to make sure the G.O.P. doesn't steal those issues...
...textbook study of the fickle results of corporate welfare. Seaboard was unable to attract enough workers from Albert Lea to run the plant. Many former Farmstead employees had already left the area in search of work. More than 100 had retired. Still others declined to work for Seaboard wages--$4,500 a year less than the plant's 1983 wage, and no vacation the first year...
...became common for several workers to share a room. Families couldn't afford local rents on a Seaboard wage. Eventually some went on welfare. In short, corporate welfare begot individual welfare...
More women may be climbing to the top of the corporate ladder, but they're still not making as much as their male colleagues. Female executives earn just 68% of male salaries, a wider wage gap than in the work force as a whole, according to a report out last week from the Catalyst organization. Careers that compensate more equitably are nursing, computer science and finance...
Representatives of the Cambridge Campaign, saying that Cambridge is a more expensive city in which to live, defended the proposed $10 per hour living wage in Cambridge...