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| Waiting In The Food Line Jan. 8, 2003 With the economic recession, there has been a sudden leap in the number of people on emergency food assistance. In Ohio, some of the food lines look like something from the Great Depression, reports Scott Pelley. Its not just the unemployed. Plenty of people working full time are still not able to earn enough to keep hunger out of the house. If you think you have a good idea of who's hungry in America today, you may be wrong. Take for example, one long food line forming outside Marietta, Ohio. The people in front came at dawn. Sometimes the food runs out before the line does. So it's best to get in early. They've come with empty boxes and baskets and little red wagons and if they wait up to five hours, they carry away groceries that will last a few days. Lately, the food's been coming once every few weeks. And each time the crowd's getting larger. A few weeks before Thanksgiving, the line was the longest it had been. 60 Minutes II counted 896 people on line. Usually, Marilyn Card and her husband both work. But Marslyn is taking time off now for her newborn -- a girl named Autumn. "My husband really doesn't make enough for all of our groceries", she says. Her husband works full time. Jean Hayborn and Edna Swiers worked at the Goodyear plant for 33 years. They were laid off when the plant closed at the end of 1999. Neither imagined they'd ever be standing in a food line. Karen Coe's husband David served in the Air force and the Air National Guard for 30 years. But a stroke disabled him while he was on a mission to help flood victims three years ago. For them, it is the difference between eating and not eating. "He can't read, he cannot find his engineering degrees. He was blinded. The VA takes care of him on those issues", she says. But she cannot afford to feed him without the food line. Also in the line is Robert Lent, a veteran too, of World War II and the Great Depression. He waited in food lines as a boy. To Read More |
| * Street Cornor, Incorporated By Christopher D. Cook March/April 2002 Providing workers to do the dirtiest, riskiest jobs has become a big business. One corporation has cornered the market and is squeezing millions from its day-labor temps. MotherJones.com |
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| Is There a Single Definition of "Income" That is Used with the Poverty Guidelines? As noted in the poverty guidelines federal Register notice, there is no universal administrative definition of "income" that is valid for all programs that use the poverty guidelines. U.S. Department of Health |
| Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Poverty guidelines, Research, and Measurement Poverty Guidelines |
| EZ Application - Implementation Plan Preparing the workforce properly for the 21st century is one of the biggest challenges facing the Greater St. Louis Region. Nowhere is the challenge more pronounced than within the boundaries of the Regional empowerment Zone. St. Louis Mo. |
| Temp Worker Justice Week, Legislation Across the United States, at the federal, state, and local level temp workers, day laborers, their unions and organizations are seeking legislative solutions to many of the problems they face. Labor laws in the U.S. were created in a different era. It's time we brought them up to date to reflect the needs of workers in contingent jobs. fairjobs.org |
| Who Was Poor in 2001 National poverty data are calculated using the official census definition of poverty, which has remained fairly standard since it was introduced in the 1960's and is useful for measuring progress against poverty. Under this definition, poverty is determined by comparing pretax cash income with the poverty threshold, which adjusts for family size and composition. In 2001, according to the official measure, 11.7 percent of the total U.S. population lived in poverty (table 1). Who was Poor |
| What is The Difference Between Poverty Thresholds and Poverty Guidelines? Since December 1965, there have been two slightly different versions of the federal poverty measure: poverty thresholds and poverty guidelines. Poverty thresholds are the statistical version of the poverty measure and are issued by the Census Bureau. The are used for calculating the number of persons in poverty in the United States or in states and regions. Poverty guidelines are the administrative version of the poverty measure and are issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). They are a simplification of the poverty thresholds and are used in determining financial eligibility for certain federal programs. FAQ |
| Employees are Still Performing, but Most only Moderately Engaged in Their Jobs New York, N.Y., May 28, 2003 Despite the protracted economic downturn and continuing layoffs in the tight job market, employees are proving both resilient and resolute in coping with the uncertain environment, according to a comprehensive new workforce study by Towers Perrin, one of the world's largest management, human resource consulting and administration firms. Driven mostly by necessity, employees are staying focused on their jobs, realizing their near-term future is tied to their current employer's success. Towers.com/ |
| "Ethics & Economics" By Sir James Fitzjames Stephen "If "A" places his greatest happiness in promoting that which he regards as "B's" greatest happiness, "B" never having asked him to do so, and "A" having no other interest in the matter than general feelings of sympathy, it is a hundred to one that "B" will tell "A" to mind his own business. If "A" represents a small class of men of quick feelings and lively talents, and "B" a much larger class of ignorant people, who, if they were left alone, would never have thought of the topics which their advisers din into their ears, the probability is that the few will by degrees work up the many into a state of violence, excitement, discontent, and clamorous desire for they know not what - which is neither a pleasant state in itself nor one fruitful of much real good to any one whatever". Blupete&Commentary |
| Government's Assault on Freedom to Work By Thomas J. DiLorenzo This essay suggests ways of thinking about one of the most important economic freedoms-the freedom to earn a living. Economic freedom may be defined generally as the freedom to trade or to engage in any consensual economic activity. In the context of the labor market, economic freedom means the freedom of an employee or a group of employees to "trade" labor services in return for remuneration. LibertyHavaen |
| (LUF Note: This article should be the eye opener. The theft, the economic distruction, the failure of the system. The have's taking from the have knots.) * Top Enron Chiefs Reaped $744 Million Tuesday June 18 NEW YORK (AP) _ Top Enron Corp. workers reaped $744 million in payments and stock in the year leading up to its bankruptcy filing, the company disclosed late Monday. Representatives of former workers and shareholders responded angrily, accusing the 144 senior managers of essentially raiding Enron's coffers while leaving their clients with relatively little. Business - AP |
| Contingent Workers and Coverage Under the Fair Labor Standards Act September 16, 1999 By Catherine K. Ruskelshaus National Employment Law Project United States industries and business owners are fashioning newer and more complex business arrangements in order to compete in the global economy, where increased movement of capital and labor across borders brings new pressure on U.S. businesses to survive at any cost. Tactics such as subcontracting, out-sourcing, using temporary and other staffing firms, and other forms of reconfiguring their workforce have allowed some firms to enjoy short-term competitive advantages. Examples abound. The recent strike by the United Parcel Service (UPS) workers around their treatment as "permanent" temporary employees, the landmark case brought by the misclassified "independent contractor" computer programmers at Microsoft, and the walk-out and strike at Bell Atlantic and General Motors where the companies out-sourced to non-union subsidiaries and threatened to contract-out the work at the strike-bound parts plants, respectively, are but four high-profile examples. Other examples, while receiving less media attention, are no less compelling in the stories they evoke, and include chicken catchers working for a national chicken processing company on the Eastern shore of Maryland that claims the workers are not its employees home care workers employed by large state and local-funded agencies across the country that fail to pay the workers overtime, and so-called "independent contractor" taxi drivers working for fleet owners in New York City for less than the minimum wage. National Employment Law Project |
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