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...blue collar workers and those without higher education will have to wait longer for employment opportunities, according to Miron...
...another kidnapping in West Yorkshire, which is strikingly similar to those of 1974, forcing the police to accept that they may not have apprehended the right man. A washed up public defender John Piggott (Mark Addy) has taken on the case and strikes yet another blow at the white-collar crime that pervades the Police Department...
They met cute. In 1967, Smith was a dreamy 20-year-old from a blue collar family. She was obsessed with art, film and books, and her taste in decadent demigods was impeccable, from Charles Baudelaire to William Burroughs. But she was drifting into a prosaic life. The previous year she had gotten pregnant, dropped out of a teachers' college, placed the baby with an adoptive family and started punching a clock in a textbook factory. In desperation she lunged for New York City with her drawing pencils and a copy of Rimbaud. Straight off the bus she headed...
...Southwest, the construction site is what the factory floor is to the MidWest - the place where blue-collar men and women earn their keep. A tour of downtown Los Angeles and the industrial warehouse area to the south finds busy jobs sites few and far between. In Vernon, Oltmans Construction Co., ranked as one of the nation's elite "Top 400 Contractors" by Engineering News Record, is completing a gleaming white 60,000 square foot warehouse and office space for CR Lawrence whose business is construction, industrial, architectural and automotive supplies. Ed Sorbel, superintendent for Carpenter's Local 630, says...
Aside from the increase in white-collar women, the other trend behind the Pew numbers is that marriage rates have declined most sharply among the least educated men and women, which helps explain why the median household income figures for married men have pulled even further ahead of those for their single counterparts. More of the least affluent are unmarried than before. (See the best business deals...