Word: wages
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Congress and President Bush both agree that the $3.35-an-hour minimum wage, which has not been raised since 1981, needs a boost. But a conflict is brewing over just how far to hike it. Had the wage kept pace with inflation, it would stand at $4.46 an hour today. Bush has threatened to veto any bill that provides a base rate of more than $4.25. Last week the House passed a measure that would gradually increase the wage to $4.55 by 1992. The Senate, scheduled to take up the issue next week, is unlikely to adopt a rate...
...community planning at Kansas State: "Many of these communities peaked in 1890. This has been the longest deathbed scene in history." Many towns tried to diversify in postwar years by attracting industry, especially low-paying light-manufacturing businesses. Many of those jobs, however, were eventually lost to even lower-wage foreign suppliers, especially during the run-up in value of the U.S. dollar in the early 1980s. During this decade, rural areas have created new jobs at only 40% the rate of metropolitan centers...
Telemarketing would not be the complete answer for small towns, because it generally offers mostly minimum-wage jobs. Several studies have found that the full blossoming of a high-tech economy comes only after it receives a heavy dose of defense contracts. The bulk of that money currently goes to the country's heavily populated coastal regions, which have the most congressional representation. Says Tom Daniels, associate professor of regional and community planning at Kansas State: "Look where all the defense dollars are going, and you can see we are creating a bicoastal economy...
...characteristic defiance. Said he: "We take no responsibility for the strike. This is a Frank Lorenzo strike." Eastern's differences with its unions had long since deteriorated into a bitter and highly personal feud between the two men. While Eastern insisted that the airline could not survive without substantial wage concessions from the machinists, Bryan maintained that Lorenzo was out to destroy the carrier and sell it off for his own profit. Lorenzo's battle with the machinists, said Bryan, was "the purest case of evil vs. good...
...Administration's issue agenda too is pulled in many directions at once. The peripatetic President delivers several speeches a week, and sometimes several a day, on subjects as diverse as drugs, volunteerism, government service, ethics, education, child care and the minimum wage. On the morning after his Feb. 9 budget address, he flew to Canada. Then he exhausted his staff (though not himself) on a whirlwind five-day tour to Japan, China and South Korea, including formal meetings with two dozen foreign leaders that required extensive preparation and diverted the Administration from the efforts to confirm Tower and to fill...