Word: worker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course the microchip, like every new technology, brings viruses. Increased reliance on technology has led to the threat of growing inequality and a two-tier society. Workers and students not properly trained will be left behind, opening the way for the social disruptions that accompanied the shift to the industrial age. At a time when they are most needed, schools have been allowed to deteriorate, and worker-training programs have fallen prey to budget austerity. For all the spending on computers and software ($800 billion in the U.S. during the past five years), the most obvious investment has not been...
...college becomes harder to afford, students realize they can't afford not to go: this economy pries open the gap in prospects for those with a college degree and those without. The average CEO of a large company now earns 200 times more than the average worker, up from a 40-fold difference in the 1970s, according to trend watcher and author Gerald Celente. And for those who drop out, the options for unskilled workers keep shrinking, as does the safety net beneath them if they fall out of the economy altogether...
...when Payanzo talked to Nadja B. Gould, a licensed clinical social worker at UHS, Gould reassured her that UHS offered many other services relating to pregnancy and childbirth. Payanzo ended up developing a close relationship with one of the counselors there...
...cops made a tiny mistake that evening, a small error of the sort that brings down empires: they failed to return Colbert's driver's license. (Ryan had thrown it away.) Colbert was about to move to Detroit, where he is now employed as a social worker, and he needed his Pennsylvania license to apply for one in Michigan. So, frightened and trembling, Colbert returned to the 39th headquarters the next day. "Here was a black guy complaining about two white cops to a white lieutenant," recalls John Gallagher, the duty supervisor that day. "It took some balls...
...increase for average U.S. worker in fiscal year...