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...Your domestic popularity has rebounded. What's your strategy in the near term? We certainly have to continue the reform process. We have strongly reformed the labor market and built a really huge low-wage sector. By reducing long-term unemployment subsidies and benefits, we will have resources that can be invested in education and training. We are no longer going to live with the situation where a lot of unemployed people hover in a market where nobody sees them or does anything for them. We've also carried out the biggest tax reform in modern German history, returning...
...meantime, the problem of union rights remains Harvard’s problem, too. Four years after the living wage sit-in, Harvard management has been slowly but surely replacing union workers in key sectors of the workforce. The last seven unionized security guards were laid off last year. And four female janitors, all union members, recently came to work to find their own jobs outsourced. They were reinstated only after large worker-student protests. If workers in these sectors try to organize anew this year, Harvard has a moral and legal obligation to recognize their right...
When he turned sixteen, Ferreira dropped out of high school and began working at a pool hall that used to exist in Inman Square, earning $1.95 per hour, which he says was a good wage at the time...
...where to draw borders, the status of Jerusalem, and more immediately the future of Israeli settlements and the seperation fence, and even steps required to sustain a truce. The reason? The basis of Abbas?s truce declaration was not a new commitment by the Palestinian security services to wage war on militant groups like Hamas and the Al-Aqsa Martyr?s Brigade, but a voluntary truce or ?hudna? adopted by those groups in exchange for Israel agreeing to end attacks on their leaders, ease conditions in Palestinian territories and free Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails...
...church virtually disappeared after the war. It aided the civil rights movement, but its numbers didn't rebound until the 1980s, as Yankees flocked to the Sunbelt's technology and service industries, and as Mexicans and Central American migrants moved northward for poultry-processing and other low-wage jobs. From 1980 to 2000, the region's Catholic population had doubled, to more than 12 million...