Word: workers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...name is Rose; she is disheveled, disreputable, and she has a past that she confides to her barfly acquaintance one snowy Friday night. The teller of this tale takes his time getting around to it, but it is a scorcher when it arrives: how Rose and a construction worker fell in love long ago, married and, being devout Roman Catholics, had three children in as many years. How, further, romance soured into a nightmarish descent into impoverishment and brutality. After years of dulled acquiescence to the growing horror around her, Rose musters the energy to strike back. She saves...
...Harvard friends say she provides as much emotional strength and support to them as she does for her Centro Presente ones. "She's a social worker for many people. Friends really come to her with their problems a lot," says Achinstein...
...become anesthetized by ignorance and apathy. California Pollster Mervin Field estimates that less than 10% of the voting- age population are "attending": following the campaigns, informing themselves about world affairs or caring about public issues in any active way. Field tells the story of a door-to-door campaign worker who persuaded the head of one California household to register to vote. "What are the choices?" the gentleman asked. Democrat, Republican or Independent, he was told. "Which is Reagan?" the man said. "That's what I want...
...experience. A Chicago steelworker, Grant was laid off from his $30,000-a-year job two years ago, on the day before he and his wife planned to close the purchase of their first house. That dream is postponed now. Grant, 28, earns only $13,000 as a maintenance worker at a Holiday Inn; his wife Pamela stays home and cares for their three children and stuffs envelopes to earn household money. But Grant is looking for a higher-paying job as an electrician. Says he: "I've been brought up in the middle class. I'll be damned...
...getting federal food assistance. The unmarried mother of a 15-month-old son, she has to spend $200 a month for day care, which eats up about one-quarter of her take-home pay. For help with room and board, she has taken in her brother John, a factory worker, as a roommate...