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...state, according to a 1991 report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Those who don't work typically include the medically or mentally unfit, as well as the most dangerous offenders, the ones who can't be trusted to rake the yard without blinding another inmate. The average prisoner workweek is 34.5 hours. Federal inmates put in 37.5 hours--though that is still less than the 48 hours that would be required under a Senate bill sponsored by Republican Richard Shelby of Alabama...
...drastic measures can cause widespread unemployment and boost the crime rate. They could endanger the lives of children whose families rely on government assistance. Is there a way to lessen the misery of the people affected? Perhaps they could agree to a salary reduction or a shorter workweek rather than find themselves totally out of a job and unable to support their families. Public servants could start the ball rolling by contributing a reasonable portion of their pay to a victims' relief fund. Dominga L. Reyes Ojai, California...
...workers complain that for them expansion spells exhaustion. Throughout American industry, companies are using overtime to wring the most out of the U.S. labor force: the factory workweek currently is averaging a near record 42 hours, including 4.6 hours of overtime. Americans, observes Audrey Freedman, a labor economist and member of TIME's board, "are the workingest people in the world." The big-three automakers have pushed this trend to an extreme. Their workers are putting in an average of 10 hours overtime a week and laboring an average of six eight-hour Saturdays a year...
...wrong. A 40-hour workweek, even at double the minimum wage of $4.25 an hour, does not necessarily buy you shelter anymore -- especially in America's tourist boomtowns. Life for the working class in resort areas has always been short on personal amenities, but the situation is now reaching crisis proportions because of stagnating wages and escalating real estate prices. From snow-and-arts resorts like Breckenridge, Colorado, to country- music Meccas like Branson, Missouri, America's playlands are producing a booming class of unfortunates: the hardworking homeless. To step off the main drag of a glistening little jewel like...
...state power is the solution to all ills, simply has to be present in any proposal to boost regulation over one-seventh of the nation's economy. Two years after the collapse of communism, and at a time when even the mild-mannered Eurosocialists are considering a four-day workweek in order to boost their % stagnant employment statistics, faith in the efficacy of state management remains surprisingly strong here. The reason is that the potential problem solvers look forward to a busy future and to the political rewards that will flow from attending to their self-imposed labors. If ambitious...