Word: waging
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...Smith, despite her year’s stay with the school, doesn’t try to be a journalist. She invents annual dinners where professors and freshmen listen to a glee club while Haitians serve chicken for a $22 flat wage. There is the Bus Stop, a restaurant that serves the same as Cafe Algiers but is embellished with basement-shaking poetry performances...
Taking on social security first, Peterson pointed to three possible solutions: borrowing money, decreasing benefits, and increasing taxes. He ultimately concluded that the best way to address its effect on the budget deficit is by cutting benefits by reforming the wage-indexing program, which is used to calculate the amount of benefits distributed...
...nationwide housing boom is responsible for much of the worker shortage. Field workers, mostly undocumented immigrants from Mexico, are increasingly ditching the minimum-wage, back-breaking temporary work offered in agriculture for more lucrative construction jobs, which pay from $11 to $15 an hour. An estimated 40% of the region's illegal agricultural workers have already migrated to the construction industry. The growers insist that their margins on produce are too small to offer higher wages, a claim that unions are challenging...
...wage competition isn't the only culprit. The United Farm Workers, a 27,000-member union in California, says workers are simply looking for better working conditions; this summer several California farm workers died from heat-related illness. A crackdown on illegal immigration by U.S. Border Patrol and vigilantes called "Minutemen" is also choking the supply of new workers...
When privileged people (that’s most of us here) talk about poverty, we often do so in economic terms: the poverty line, the living wage, the cost of living, the unemployment rate. And to the extent that poverty is an economic phenomenon, we’re not completely off base. But poverty is also about intolerance...