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Robert Rackleff, 47, is one of the rare men who have stepped off the corporate treadmill. Five years ago, after the birth of their third child, Rackleff and his wife JoEllen fled New York City, where he was a well-paid corporate speechwriter and she a radio-show producer. They moved to his native Florida, where Rackleff earns a less lavish living as a free-lance writer and helps his wife raise the kids. The drop in income, he acknowledges, "was scary. It put more pressure on me, but I wanted to spend more time with my children." Rackleff feels...
...decline. To shore up family income, wives have flooded into the labor market, but their earning power is low. In 1988 the average family income was only 6% higher than in 1973, though almost twice as many wives were at work. In many households, one well-paid smokestack job with health insurance has been replaced by two service jobs without benefits. Burger King doesn't provide as well as Bethlehem Steel...
...there are such films. But they are not made by starving artists in a garage in Munich and called, say, Kinesis Synthesis 3. They are made by hundreds of well-paid technicians in Hollywood and called Gremlins 2. The film is so much about itself that it summons up a movie critic (Entertainment Tonight's Leonard Maltin) to offer a pan of Gremlins One. Halfway through, the film breaks down, the screen goes blank, and then gremlins are seen taking over the movie house. In the lobby a mother shouts at the theater manager, "This is even worse than...
...black takeovers coincided with the deterioration of the economies of American cities, especially in the industrial areas to which many blacks had migrated from the South. Places like Cleveland and Detroit suffered a dwindling of the well-paid manufacturing jobs that had pulled generations of unskilled workers into the middle class. Many whites, fearing black government, fled to the suburbs, taking their taxable incomes with them. The financial bind worsened under the Reagan Administration's cutbacks in urban aid. "It's like getting the prize and seeing that the prize is hollow," says Linda Williams, policy analyst at the Joint...
...past 15 years. Though the Forrester children have done far better than some of their counterparts elsewhere who work at minimum-wage jobs, they still face a stark choice common to many high school-educated children of blue-collar workers: either to make it into a well-paid but precarious union job or to walk off an economic cliff into a nonunion service-sector job that pays a fraction of such wages...