Word: wages
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...other moderate Democratic intellectuals believe that the heart of "economic security" as a political strategy should be a drastically revised social safety net for American workers. By offering universal health insurance and government-subsidized pension reform, Washington would relieve U.S. companies of those two burdens. Also helpful would be wage insurance, which would soften the blow for laid-off workers forced to take lower-paying jobs, and a turbo-charged government effort to promote new industries (like alternative fuels) to provide high-paying jobs. These ideas would cost money and demand higher taxes, which horrifies the economic-freedom crowd. They...
...from the democratic values trumpeted by the Bush Administration. The jihadist element has long been nurtured by the Pakistani security establishment, which cultivated it during the anti-Soviet campaign in Afghanistan in the 1980s (later helping the Taliban to seize power) and used it also to wage a proxy war against India in the disputed territory of Kashmir. Two decades after the onset of the Afghan jihad, radical Islamists are an established feature of Pakistani society, and increasingly difficult for the authorities to contain...
...income residents.Harry Anderson, an area supervisor for the CHA, accused the City of “taking away the rights of workers.” Anderson, who was carrying a sign, said he was rallying against policies like forced overtime and the elimination of negotiated wages.Without negotiated wages, “if your boss doesn’t like you, you won’t get a wage raise,” said Brenda Downing, a senior property manager for the CHA. “We want fair wages for everyone, not favoritism.”Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves...
Iraq doesn’t need a civil war—there is plenty of unrest as it is. Instead, in the wake of yet another act of terrorism by Sunni insurgents, Iraqi Shiites, and the global Islamic community, need to wage a new type of war, one in which suicide bombs and death threats are conspicuously absent: a civil war of words. Wordplay aside, such a campaign would be targeted not at the usual suspects of America and the West, but at the internal evil that has given Islam such a bad name. Once again, Jihad Momani, addressing...
...better information about its constituent’s desires would be a bad thing. Without such information the UC flails in the dark. To wit, the most frustrating part of last semester’s UC resolution to support the Student Labor Action Movement’s (SLAM) living-wage campaign, was that it presumed to speak for a student body that it had yet to consult. In that vein, we certainly support UC initiatives to better ascertain the pulse of the student body. But we do so with significant caveats. The UC should tread cautiously to avoid several perils...