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Laws that mandate a LIVING WAGE have helped reduce poverty, according to a study by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California. The laws, instituted in nearly 40 cities, mandate a HIGHER MINIMUM wage than the Federal Government's $5.15 per hour. Critics have long argued that the living wage can REDUCE JOBS, since employers may be unwilling or unable to pay higher wages. And living-wage laws don't cover all workers, often only those whose employers have city contracts. Still, in cities like SAN FRANCISCO (where the living wage is $10 an hour), the report says the laws...
Covering Afghanistan, this is not. I check into the elegant Victory Hotel on Shamian Island. The hotel was built by the British in the 1920s as the Victoria; in efficient Guangzhou fashion, the postrevolution name change to the Victory Hotel glorified the communists while requiring a minimum of new letters. After the Second Opium War, Shamian became a foreign concession in 1860, and its pedestrian-friendly streets are lined by former consulates and trading offices that lend an aura of faded grandeur. If most of Guangzhou marches at triple time, gentrified Shamian ambles, stopping at bright, breezy caf? like Lucy...
...within this system don’t even apply to the estimated 38.5 million Americans who remain uninsured or the millions of others who still scrape by on insufficient government aid. Extending basic health care to these citizens is a critical national priority. The federal government should guarantee a minimum standard of coverage to every American via social insurance—allowing doctors and hospitals to remain private...
There is an opportunity for Harvard students to help the plight of these farmers by buying fairly traded coffee. Fair trade coffee is purchased directly from small, democratically run farmers’ cooperatives. Farmers are guaranteed a minimum price of $1.26 per pound, and if market prices rise above the fair trade premium, farmers receive 10 cents more than the market price. Fair trade coffee is a feasible alternative because it is bought directly from cooperatives, instead of through exploitative middlemen, called coyotes, who are pervasive in the coffee trade...
SGAC is requesting a minimum of $1.2 billion for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for 2003 as well as $750 million in emergency spending...