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...private sector ethics failing the Reaganauts in office...
...Notes Senator Charles Percy of Illinois, who chaired the hearings: "According to a General Accounting Office sample of delinquent doctors and dentists, most are well established in their practices and perfectly capable of paying these loans back on time. Seventy-three percent had excellent credit ratings in the private sector." One Harvard University Medical School graduate has a $19,000 car loan, $2,000 in department-store charges and $13,000 in other outstanding credit, and has never missed a payment on these debts. Yet he is two years delinquent on the remaining $1,552 of a student loan...
...most amazing sector of the nation of profit, however, is Italy's underground economy, which never shows up on official statistics. It is a result of the scala mobile, the official wage scale that moves up or down with cost of living indices. Most moves have been up, of course, particularly after the three powerful national labor unions won drastically higher revisions in the wage scale in 1975. Employers responded by taking advantage of a section of the labor law that exempts companies with fewer than 20 workers not only from automatic wage increases but also from compliance with...
...Doctors learn their bad habits on the poor, but they don't forget their bad habits, they take them to the private sector. In private practice, there are far fewer regulations that a doctor has to contend with," Wolfe adds that there is no method which exists to monitor the extent of private sector abuse...
About 67,000 of the openings were in clerical and sales positions, and 49,000 were in the service sector. In greatest demand were auto mechanics, clerk typists, restaurant cooks, materials handlers, secretaries and waitresses. The job openings knew no geographic bounds; employment in those fields was generally available throughout...