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...problem of a $175,000 executive who is able to keep only $48,000 in take-home pay is not one calculated to arouse the sympathy of the average wage-earner. And the well-heeled executive, describing his unhappy plight in the Waldorf-Astoria bar or on the beach at Miami, is likely as not writing his entertainment or his vacation off on the company's expense account. But the problem of executive pay is nonetheless a real one to executives who are taking on greatly increased responsibilities with little or nothing to show for their efforts...
...more so than of justice in the courts and of the vote." This definition of the Negro's needs is today strikingly out of date. ^ For most Negroes, the problem is no longer jobs, but better jobs; for many, it is no longer bread, but cake. The Negro wage earner today makes four times as much as in 1940 (compared to the white wage earner's 2½ times as much). The Negro's average yearly income is still only a little more than half of the white average, but ten years ago it was about...
...personal income taxes, with more generous exemptions for dependents and medical expenses. The tax bill of the average $3,000-a-year wage earner (married, no dependents) will drop from $175 to $150 (at current U.S. rates he would...
When Chile's Parliament passed historic Law 4054 in 1924, social security was introduced to the Western Hemisphere (the first U.S. federal law was passed in 1935). Since then, Chile has fleshed out the sys! tern to the point where every money earner is entitled, bylaw, to cradle-to-grave insurance against childbirth costs, doctor bills, hospital bills, disability losses and funeral expenses. Manual laborers, furthermore, get old-age pensions up to full working...
...operation Eva Perón made public appearances only at the opening of Congress in May and at the June 4 presidential inauguration, where her mink coat hung like a shroud. In the meantime, her followers have whipped up countless new tributes. Last week labor leaders ordered every wage earner in the country to give a day's pay toward building monuments to her. Reportedly, their plan was to build $42 million worth of spires, each 210 ft. tall, topped with statues of Eva, to stand in each of the provincial and territorial capitals in Argentina, and also...