Word: wages
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WHETHER to vote for George Bush or Mike Dukakis may not be the most important issue facing Massachusetts voters this election year. The debate over referendum Question 2, which calls for the repeal of Massachusetts' 74-year-old prevailing wage law, has been marked by an anti-labor campaign significant for its divisiveness and demagoguery. At stake in this campaign is not only the referendum question, but also a mandate on the purpose and function of a community...
Raise the minimum wage. The best way to help the working homeless is to pay them better: the national minimum wage has stayed at $3.35 an hour since 1981, while the cost of living has risen by a third. Modest financial help is already coming from some states. California raised its minimum wage to $4.25 an hour in July. Other states provide more direct assistance: New Jersey has prevented 12,000 families from being evicted over the past four years by providing loans and grants to help pay rents and mortgages...
...other distressed gentlefolk. They might all be sitting on a verandah above the Ganges a half-century ago, waiting for the subcontinental jewel to fall out of the imperial crown. But now Madame has taken on Manek (Navin Chowdhry), a gifted Indian lad, as her prize pupil. She will wage war with his beautiful mother (Shabana Azmi) over his time and loyalty. She will goad Manek to greatness and lose a bit of her heart...
...teachers' old contract expired on August 31, and teachers had agreed to work at the previous rates while negotiations for the new contract continued. The wage increases agreed to in the new contract will be retroactive to September...
...referendum on the economy. Republican claims of continued prosperity were bolstered by Friday's announcement that unemployment dropped 0.2 points in September, to 5.4%. But the Democratic argument that most new jobs tend to be low-paying was also bolstered, by a 1.3% decline in inflation-adjusted hourly wage rates...