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...almost half of the committee—eight of 19 total members—submitted statements that call for a “backstop” wage, a minimum wage floor similar to a living wage...
...first I wish the home to be comfortable and convenient to live in; secondly, I hope it will be a distinguished monument in the history of architecture; thirdly, I look forward to these ends being attained as economically as possible and particularly in a way that will assure the minimum of cost for up-keep and running expenses...
Dartboard is concerned about the wave of inappropriate informality that seems to have crashed over Harvard University. Although it would be patently ridiculous for a university to attempt to strictly enforce a minimum dress requirement, there are certain occasions when Harvard organizations ought to suggest a dress code...
...living wage. But if you ask a group of average students whether they are in favor of paying their dining hall workers, or that security guard they know, or the workers they see keeping their House clean—paying them a wage that has been deemed the minimum necessary to live at the poverty line in this area—then I believe the vast majority would say, “of course.” Lamentably, PSLM’s tactics have seemed to come under closer scrutiny than the cause they serve, and discussion on the propriety...
...What a stimulus package will do, though, is make it look like Washington is trying to help. That's why Bush was willing in Orlando Tuesday to signal a GOP retreat on a retroactive (to 1986) repeal of the corporate alternative minimum tax. It's why Senate Democrats - though they couldn't actually pass a bill - finally let go of their weeks-long fight to load up the package with antiterrorism spending and farm subsidies. After spending the better part of three months jostling for ideological goodies to present to constituents ahead of the 2002 elections, Congress may be finally...