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...cash, Ford now has the option of issuing stock to fund up to 50% of the Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association, or VEBA. It means that the health of UAW members is tied directly to the health of Ford. "Our bargaining team stepped up to confront numerous challenges," said UAW vice president Bob King, who heads the union's National Ford Department, in a statement. "They're to be commended for their hard work under difficult circumstances." Circumstances that only seem to get more difficult...
...local events. Last week the UC ran a trial run of the program and raffled off 32 tickets to both Cultural Rhythms and the Black Students Association’s Renaissance Ball. Nearly 200 students applied for tickets, according to Kia J. McLeod ’10, UC vice-president. “I feel like we are finding alternative ways to help social life without doing what we used to do in the past with the party fund. [We’re] just being creative,” McLeod said. UC President Andrea R. Flores...
...America's middle class is hurting," said Vice President Joe Biden last month when he announced the formation of a Middle-Class Task Force, which will meet for the first time on Feb. 27. The recession, with its job losses, mortgage defaults and stock-market tumbles, has threatened Americans' ability to make ends meet. "It is our charge to get the middle class - the backbone of this country - up and running again," the Vice President declared, and one could practically hear the cheers emanating from single-family homes with two-car garages. But what exactly is the American middle class...
...Vice President Biden attempted to define middle-class Americans as people who would find it difficult to miss more than two paychecks, and he wasn't far off; with wage increases failing to keep pace with inflation, about 21% of middle-class Americans have spent themselves to the limit. Personal bankruptcies rose by a third last year and mortgage defaults - well, they're moving beyond subprime borrowers and hitting those with previously high credit scores. On Feb. 27, Biden and eight members of his task force, including Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Energy Secretary Steven Chu, will meet...