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...studying literature at university, but says she was happy to stop once it was time for them to marry. "Pravin was in the village and I had been to the city, but he didn't let me down in any way," says Smita. "He was very much a hard worker. No one in the village will deny he was the best young...
...through the financial statements of the Detroit Three, however, and you can easily conclude that they are money-losing retirement and health-care organizations just masquerading as money-losing carmakers. Consider General Motors, which supports three living retirees for every worker now on the job (at Chrysler the ratio is 1.3 to 1). GM long ago lost its status as the nation's largest private employer, but it remains the biggest private purchaser of health care. Investors value GM's business at $18 billion; the fund it has set aside to pay for employee pensions is worth more than...
...begged and pleaded them that I am not an opposition worker; I am a student," says Aadil Badshah, a 20-year-old Pathan studying engineering, who was shot in the legs and hands. "They did not listen to me. They were laughing at us and four others. One of them was a 50-year-old laborer. First they beat us, took us inside a street, put us to stand in a line and then fired on us. And then left. Two died on the spot and me and two others survived...
...dummies—they’ve done their homework. You can see that a security guard at Harvard makes $12.68 an hour, whereas at Stanford their wage is $20.39 and at neighboring MIT it’s $18.64 an hour. On their website you can also see worker testimonials. From Najeeb Hussain you will learn that “Because AlliedBarton and Harvard University are standing in the way of me and my fellow officers’ efforts to improve our jobs with the Service Employees International Union, I am now preparing to tell my eldest daughter that...
While I admire the idealism of students who have embarked on a hunger strike to support the demands of Harvard’s security guards, I think the protest is misguided. Basic economics dictates that the more each worker is paid, the fewer workers will be hired. Raising the wages of security guards who already have jobs could shut the door on the poor and unemployed...