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Joerres believes the biggest hurt will be on those in entry-level positions, for many of whom the minimum wage will again become the norm. But there remains a great need for mid-level and skilled employees. "Even if we move toward 5% unemployment," Joerres says, "you are still going to find companies saying they can't find the right people." The most secure jobs are in information technology, finance, engineering, nursing and teaching, Joerres says...
...paper trail of cracks against the pieties - against a higher minimum wage, against the concept of a woman-thwarting "glass ceiling" in business, against affirmative action, against bilingual education - is not going to make life easy for Chavez in confirmation hearings for her in-your-face appointment as secretary of labor...
...Confirming Linda Chavez, the nominee to head the Labor Department, will chafe pro-labor Democrats and those interested in raising the minimum wage; Chavez, a former Reagan administration official, has demonstrated a strong enmity toward both...
That rally was the culmination of a year-long push by the Harvard Living Wage Campaign, which has lobbied for a $10.25 minimum wage--a figure that the Cambridge city council adopted as the official Cambridge living wage...
Although the Ad-Hoc Committee's report addressed the need for increased benefits, it concluded that a higher minimum wage would be impractical...