Word: workers
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...national virtues. At President Nixon's Inauguration, the Baptist, Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox prayers all fitted snugly into this tradition, but the Jewish prayer strayed into unfamiliar terrain. Rabbi Seymour Siegel, a professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York and an ardent Nixon campaign worker, delivered a prayer that is customarily reserved for the presence of kings. Its text: "Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, King of the Universe, who hast given us of thy glory and flesh and blood...
...American worker-blue-collar and white-collar alike-bored with his job and alienated? So it is often said, most recently by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, which reported that only 25% of the workers it polled were satisfied and would choose the same kind of job again...
...Trapnell was faking. Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter Schlam also brought in two psychiatrists to testify that, in their opinion, Trapnell was perfectly sane (he has an IQ of 130). The prosecution had not discovered, however, that one juror, Gertrude Hass, had worked for 30 years as a psychiatric social worker. To Miss Hass's professional eye, apparently, Trapnell's account of how he had faked insanity was itself further evidence of his actual insanity...
John A. Brittain, an economist at the Brookings Institution in Washington, calculates that Social Security payments, including "contributions" of employers to the system and to state unemployment tax funds, amount to 13% of the incomes of Americans in the lowest federal income tax bracket. Most economists believe that the worker in effect pays his employer's Social Security contributions-about half the worker's own payment-because his wage would be higher without them...
...between rich and poor has been something less than a flaming issue simply because all levels of Americans are better off now than they ever have been. Even discounting for the moth holes left in everyone's dollar by inflation, real buying power for the average factory worker with three dependents has increased about 11% in the past decade and more than 29% since World War II. President Nixon argued during the campaign that "the people on welfare in America would be rich in most of the nations of the world today," and his line clearly impressed more voters...