| 单词 | wage |
| 例句 | As we pushed out into the river, he said, "You can repay me when you get your wages." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The flow of goods across the seas, buoying and depressing the wages of men, held a fascination. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z My father’s measly wage of ten rands a week was stretched even tighter as a result of the new addition to the family. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z When attack and counter-attack have waged backwards and forwards there remains a broken line and a bitter struggle from crater to crater. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z This is one of four meaningful factors that determine a wage. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Now I have to hand over my wages. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Their battle will be waged not against the Erudite- Dauntless army but against Erudite innocents and the knowledge they have worked so hard to acquire.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z She’d been waging a battle against tears, but now, in a sudden break, she lost it. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z When I carried to him my weekly wages, he would, after counting the money, look me in the face with a robber-like fierceness, and ask, “Is this all?” Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z “To show you I mean what I say,” he went on, brandishing the envelope, “here’s my wages for the week. Every penny.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z But they were wages nonetheless, and Harry couldn’t afford to be particular. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Some of the girls owed months of wages and resorted to scrip for everything now. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z George Pullman continued to cut jobs and wages without reducing rents, even though his company’s treasury was flush with over $60 million in cash. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Or they pay only a fraction of the going wage, which is 50 pesos, or about $5, a day. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z With these slips of pink paper his tenants could buy everything in the general store; their wages were paid in them. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like all this, and it was like the walls that witnessed and the placards on the walls which testified that the wages of sin was death. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “Magnificence, where is the coin to come from to pay wages for so many men?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z At first, Susan B. Anthony focused her campaign on two issues: a married woman’s right to keep her own wages and a mother’s right to share equal guardianship of her children. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “The wages of sin is death!” he shouted with his fist raised high. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The war was to be waged on East Pakistani soil. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z This meant that the irregular warfare waged by militias against Indigenous peoples in the colonial period would continue, approved by the central government and assured by the Second Amendment. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z She knelt heavily in a corner near the piano, under the sign that spoke of the wages of sin, and now and again she moaned. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Some employers go further; instead of relying on the informal “money taboo” to keep workers from discussing and comparing wages, they specifically enjoin workers from doing so. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And after Punkin' was placed in an institution, Mary had put in long hours working at the Duke University switchboard, a tedious job that paid low wages. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Max’s parents split up before he was bom and his mother cleans motel rooms for minimum wage. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z If Dad stays in the pubs till closing time there will be nothing left from his wages and we might as well go to bed. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He ridiculed them for accepting the wages they did, when their own government, the People’s Government, was in power. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The present King of France has waged many wars without imposing extraordinary taxes on his subjects, only because his habitual parsimony has provided for the additional expenditures. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z It was the middle of the week, and no one would have any money for food for a couple more days, when their meager wages were collected. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z In the course of one year from the time I left Mr. Gardner’s, I was able to command the highest wages given to the most experienced calkers. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z IV Ignatius ignored his mother’s pounding on his door and crying in the hall about the fifty cents in wages that he had brought home for the day’s work. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As he had expected, Gebu had not believed the simple truth, that he had forgotten to collect his wages. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z As Louis Uchitelle has reported in the New York Times, many employers will offer almost anything—free meals, subsidized transportation, store discounts—rather than raise wages. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It was when he had received his first wages. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The bosses controlled everything: hours, pace, and wages. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The President appeared on television almost every night to denounce the ruthless war being waged by the opposition. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Furthermore, of all workers, the poorest have made the least progress back to their 1973 wage levels. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, it does me good. I’m sick of being a sniveling wage slave.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “Sí, go somewhere where nobody will know your cards are forged. I’ll give you your wages as soon as you get out of my maid’s uniform. That must remain here.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Are we then to...wage another Peloponessian War to settle the ascendancy between them. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z "We'll take it out of your future wages, then—if there are any. Go on, now." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z That was slightly more than six months’ worth of wages for me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “I thought this suppose to be a demonstration dealin with wages.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z That he was foolish to think he could wage battle against such evil? The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z There was the cost of buying slaves and their upkeep on one hand and paying white workers meager but livable wages on the other. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Afterwards he waged war with his own troops, and not with those belonging to others. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z “I see. And your wages? On the average?” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The stakes were small compared with the grand scale expedition Mark Antony had hoped to wage against Parthia. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z She worked at a fast-food restaurant, rising to assistant manager but never making much more than minimum wage. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Whoever it is, they will have to wait for my first wages tomorrow. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z She had a job earning her own wage. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Many of them get by by teaming up with another wage earner, a spouse or grown child. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In either of these two cases, it will always be more useful for you to declare yourself and to wage open warfare. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Black sharecroppers, cotton pickers, and miners making even lower wages in Alabama jumped at the chance. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Although he made use of his reputation for generosity in order to gain the papacy, Pope Julius II then decided not to maintain this reputation, in order to be able to wage war. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z I asked him if he could not get together with some of the others and strike for better wages. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The kitten, surprisingly enough, had no love for cats either, so they formed a wickedly humorous partnership that waged unceasing war against them. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z This seems to be no longer true, for government agencies channel only as many laborers as are needed, and some kind of minimum wage is maintained. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Here are the monthly totals for the wages that J. T. paid his gang members. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He knew as well as she that only an emergency could take Mamá away from her job and perhaps cause her to lose her wages for the hours she was gone. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z If I don’t know how my coworkers survive on their wages or what they make of our hellish condition, I do know about their back pains and cramps and arthritic attacks. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The problem, particularly in the early years, was that it was next to impossible to alert people on the outside that we were waging a hunger strike inside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “If I am earning wages,” she said suddenly, “then perhaps you will all think I am of some use, even if I’m not a boy.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The Gallup people knew they didn’t have to pay good wages or put up with anything they didn’t like, because there were plenty more Indians where these had come from. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z A civil war had to be waged to end slavery; a mass movement was necessary to bring a formal end to Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “There is a stone quarry,” he said, “not far from here. Stone-breakers earn good wages.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z He paid good wages, and if you deserved it he was quick to give you a bonus. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s why operators are always real polite to people calling from prisons, Shadow had decided: they knew that he paid their wages. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z After school, after he’s gone through the fights that are required of any new boy at any school, he’s off helping to wage war on the boys from the Catholic school nearby. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z With everything else it is the same, Red Cross, Community Chest, Boy Scouts, Dora’s unsung, unpublicized, shameless dirty wages of sin lead the list of donations. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He could exploit Polish workers at low wages and Jews for none at all. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z When wages were down or workers were laid off during slow seasons, the family was often not sure where the next meal was coming from. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I comfort myself with the thought of more wages to come and go to the market. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Women could not make it down the icy slopes and therefore missed days of wages they sorely needed. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Peeta seemed to have been waging a sort of battle in his mind, fighting to get the message out. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I had left Howard without a degree and was living on the impoverished wages of a freelance writer. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He always quoted the Prophet Muhammad: “Pay the laborer his wages before his sweat dries.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z At J. T.’s direction, the ledgers had been rigorously compiled: sales, wages, dues, even the death benefits paid out to the families of murdered members. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “I ask her, what if we told the truth? How we too scared to ask for minimum wage. How nobody gets paid they Social Security. How it feel when your own boss be calling you...” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The consequences of this routine surrender go beyond the issues of wages and poverty. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Indenture was a step better than slavery, but masters did their best to intimidate workers to keep wages low and silence critics. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z She supported women’s rights because she wanted to keep her own wages. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I knew that the black girls who worked in white homes stole food daily to supplement their scanty wages. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Two nights later the city’s unions met with officers of the fair to demand that they limit the workday to eight hours, pay union-scale wages, and hire union workers before all others. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The empirical evidence strongly supports the conclusion that declining wages, downsizing, deindustrialization, globalization, and cutbacks in government services represent much greater threats to the position of white men than so-called reverse discrimination. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He had lost every penny of his wages at dice over the weekend; he had asked everyone in the yard to loan him some money—they had refused. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Even those employed as waiters and janitors might be enticed to leave personal service for the higher wages of the stockyards. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z After two months without pay, he approached Irwin with a proposal: He would call off the debt for past wages if Irwin would give him Knighthood. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time they got to South Carolina, Kayak and Seabiscuit were waging bitter morning workout battles. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The earth itself seemed displeased at the warfare being waged upon it. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Filch was the Hogwarts caretaker, a bad-tempered, failed wizard who waged a constant war against the students and, indeed, Peeves. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Manufacturing jobs were transferred by multinational corporations away from American cities to countries that lacked unions, where workers earn a small fraction of what is considered a fair wage in the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I felt like I was in a no-win situation, but the battle would have been much harder to wage if I hadn't had my closest girlfriends in the trenches with me. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z They were likely to be attractive, often received no hourly wages, and earned their money through tips and a small commission on every item they sold. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z The more Chinese came, the more they began to want better wages and conditions. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The work was awfully hard, and there was never a chance to make a decent wage for the men who worked there. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The wages Mamá was paid at the hotel were too small to support the seven of them, and Lupita earned only centavos for her errands. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Beatrice’s husband was a paymaster, a man whose job it was to hand out wages to employees of the former government, and the men at the door wanted whatever cash he could get. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Rumor also had it that these papists were willing to work for lower wages, and, since the corporations did not subsidize their board and keep, the Irish girls were cheaper still to hire. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z He seemed to be struggling with himself, for the words did not come easily and the fierce inner battle he waged had brought the sweat out on his forehead and left his lips dry. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Malachy and I are excited because we know that when your father works and brings home the wages you get the Friday Penny. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Still, even with steady wages and three meals a day, there were a lot of men that left within two or three days. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For our tenement we paid six rands, half my father’s wage. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z But sometimes blacks would win the job with an offer to do the work for lower wages, leaving the immigrants resentful and hostile. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z "That way they don't have to pay union wages." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z "So did countless other researchers, scientists, and engineers. Everyone poured their souls into construction while I waged a constant political battle to maintain funding. "In the end, we built a beautiful probe. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z For one thing, he was forced to pay his foot soldiers higher wages because of the added risk. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The wages Winn-Dixie is offering—$6 and a couple of dimes to start with—are not enough, I decide, to compensate for this indignity. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z From time to time, Don Victor, when he can get away from his young girls, will stop by to see to things and give me my monthly wages. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Lawrence suddenly found himself waging a fierce batde against rising complaints at the AEC about the MTA’s high cost and indifferent performance. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The whipping post was bad enough, but the fine...six months' wages. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I noted that we had suspended our armed struggle to show our commitment to peace, yet the government was still colluding with those waging war. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The owners had advanced a month’s wages to the men, to clear their debts. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Congress had prohibited him from any more bombing in Cambodia and limited his right to wage war. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Yet wages for people near the bottom of the labor market remain fairly flat, even “stagnant.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z After school he had worked in a factory, but the wages were too meager for him to live on his own. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Beryl’s best skirt was ruined that day, and her dad made her pay for a new one out of her next week’s wages. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z But when the subject arrives at wages, his face falls. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “The wages of sin is death, are they not, my brothers?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z This southern group, pleased with the wages and social perks courtesy of Louis Swift and other employers, was a tougher nut to crack. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The government was blocking the negotiations and at the same time waging a covert war against our people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But still shebeens thrived, for they were an irresistible and indispensable way of making ends meet, providing much-needed income to augment slave wages received from working for white people. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z When Dad’s job goes into the third week he does not bring home the wages. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The Duke vigil ended a few days later when Wright Tisdale, chair of the Duke trustees, announced that a minimum wage of $1.60 for nonacademic staff would be phased in over the next several months. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I told her, “Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z As workers came to him for their wages, he berated them for doing shoddy work and refused to pay them, even if the work was perfect. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z For the next twelve hours, we waged a fierce and increasingly desperate battle to save the Cruz family’s trees. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Women were out on their front porches with their mops and buckets, waging their never-ending battle against the coal dust. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It didn’t matter that we were all free, that Momma made sure to pay everyone a small wage each week for their hard work. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I’ll even kick in my wages if it comes to that.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z If things were getting better, it wasn’t enough that the family could both feed me and live without the wages from Mr. Little. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Women could not keep their wages; if a woman worked, her pay belonged to her husband or her father. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Bleak as the area was, there was no money for anything better; the low wages paid by Swift and his fellow packers kept the unskilled masses living in squalor. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The men voted to submit demands for increased wages and benefits to the packers on Saturday, July 26, and, barring a satisfactory response, to go out on strike on July 28. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He was given a room; he was told that he would receive extra money for himself, over and above his weekly wages. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z She had nearly caught up with the wages lost by her illness, and even though Rachel made only a pittance, it paid her room and board. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Finally, you might lose even your wages and benefits because they would all be “at risk on the bargaining table.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Seeing how she was obviously as unfamiliar with the concept of minimum wage as she was with that of the legal drinking age, I decided to forgo the college fund in favor of more booze. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z There was plenty of war work on the mainland for both men and women at what seemed to us to be unbelievable wages. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Ma walked the floor with her all hours, so Pa worked double shifts to keep their wages regular. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z They paid the girl her wages for the week. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Half of our wages went to pay our expenses at the widows’ house, and the rest was put aside for us. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Because of this, factory wages in the Tarheel State vied with Mississippi’s for last place in the nation. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The first great strike of 1919 began on January 21, when thirty-five thousand Seattle, Washington, shipyard workers walked off their jobs, demanding higher wages and shorter working hours. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Today, many incarcerated people work in prison, typically earning far less than the minimum wage—often less than $3 per hour, sometimes as little as 25 cents. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But when they began to fight on land, they abandoned this successful strategy and followed the usual practices of waging war in Italy. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z That’s what this woman does, this mad American broadcaster, though her wages get paid by the Nazi Minister of Propaganda in Berlin—she walks hold as brass into prisons and prison camps and finds people. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z When I called around to various economists in the summer of 2000 and complained about the inadequacy of the wages available to entry-level workers, this was their first response: “But wages are going up!” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Du Bois described as “the public and psychological wage” paid to white workers, who depended on their status and privileges as whites to compensate for low pay and harsh working conditions. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z As for the dress, it had cost a week’s wages and she was forced to use scrip. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z How fascinating, they will likely say, that a drug war was waged almost exclusively against poor people of color—people already trapped in ghettos that lacked jobs and decent schools. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He loses it because he goes to the pubs on the third Friday of the job, drinks all his wages and misses the half day of work on Saturday morning. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Maybe they need United Steelworkers Local 4889, which used to throw its muscle around at the mill, to make profit machines like Walmart pay employees better wages. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Among its provisions are establishing a forty-hour work week and a national minimum wage as well as prohibiting oppressive child labor and most employment of minors. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z As a consequence, during so much time and so many wars waged during the past twenty years, whenever there has been an army made up completely of Italians it has always made a poor showing. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z “And who, exactly, are we going to convince to help us wage war against the entire Sixer army?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The farmers then waged war against the foxes. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Though the Respectables had steady work, their wages were consistently low, as they found themselves shut out of higher-paying factory jobs in Chicago’s fast-growing industrial base. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z President Rutherford B. Hayes sent federal troops to end the strike, and workers went back to their jobs, taking lower wages. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Throughout his childhood in the medieval city of Speyer on the Rhine, his parents had struggled to make ends meet on his father's wages as a carpenter. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The proponents of hunger strikes argued that it was a traditionally accepted form of protest that had been waged all over the world by such prominent leaders as Mahatma Gandhi. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Nonetheless, because he was a military man and knew how to win the people over and to secure himself against the nobility, he succeeded in waging war against them for many years. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z So here, take your wages and go from the sight of us. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Now she was out not only her wage, which her family needed, but also the twenty cents for round-trip bus fare. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z When I persisted in my carping to the economists, they generally backed down a bit, conceding that while wages at the bottom are going up, they’re not going up very briskly. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the first time in years my father had brought his full wages home. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He says if he had a handcart he could wheel the bags from float to house and that would be a blessing but a handcart would cost two weeks’ wages and who could afford that? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Elsewhere a pair of cyvasse players waged war outside a tavern. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z If an indentured worker chose to stay past his or her contract and settle, the worker was slapped with an annual tax, which was a heavy burden for Indians, who barely survived on their wages. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Du Bois once observed that the psychological wage of whiteness put “an indelible black face to failure.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When the mines reopen, wages are cut, hours extended, miners sent into blatantly dangerous work sites. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z She closed the door behind her instantly, as someone does who has been waging a long, long war on behalf of her progeny against post-bath drafts. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z It’s the place to apply for public assistance when a father is dead or disappeared and there’s no dole money, no wages. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Other than the menial wages sent home from the cities, families scraped by with little beyond subsistence-level farming. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Blacks in Atlanta waged an effective boycott of Jim Crow trolley cars in 1894, and in the next decade, boycotts spread to over a dozen Southern cities, including Houston and Mobile. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Most civilized nations compensate for the inadequacy of wages by providing relatively generous public services such as health insurance, free or subsidized child care, subsidized housing, and effective public transportation. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z These facts, drug war defenders claim, make the decision to wage the drug war almost exclusively in poor communities of color an easy and logical choice. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Even as Bobby was waging a secondary battle against cameras in Reykjavik, cameras in New York were televising his epic struggle on the board. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The union leadership had repeatedly pressed the Chamber of Mines for a minimum wage of ten shillings a day, as well as family housing and two weeks’ paid leave. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The women discussed inheritance rights of widows, property rights, and control of their wages. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z With everything else it is the same, Red Cross, Community Chest, Boy Scouts, Dora’s unsung, unpublicized, shameless dirty wages of sin lead the list of donations. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But for all the rich wages earned and the middle-class lives built, any claim that Levittown had to being some kind of utopia was discredited by its glaring defect: a persistent racism. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He knew that whatever wages he earned would never reach his hand, but would go straight to the Nazi. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “Sorry. Bouncer wage star at fifty dollar a week.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “He is buying the wool out of his wages, sir!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Farmers tend to breathe out nastier germs, to own better weapons and armor, to own more-powerful technology in general, and to live under centralized governments with literate elites better able to wage wars of conquest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “How about fair wages to clean up the village? It’d help out a few of us, at any rate.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I’m making decent bank, between my wages and tips and my take in Sammy’s hustles. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z We offer “mothers’ hours,” he told me, meaning that the workday was supposedly over at three—as if to say, “With a benefit like that, how could anybody complain about wages?” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He added, “I never received my back wages.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z "The white people own the island and the black people work it like wage slaves." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z More exactly, the reasons for which war is waged have changed in their order of importance. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Again, had the thought not been blasphemous, he would have thought that it was the Lord who had led him into this theater to show him an example of the wages of sin. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Do we expect minority officers, whose livelihood depends on the very departments charged with waging the war, to play the role of peacenik? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z That women’s wages be increased from one rupee twenty-five paisa a day to three rupees, and men’s from two rupees fifty paisa to four rupees fifty paisa a day. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, indirectly. You may subtract it from my miserable wage.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Xhosa waged a long war against the white man as well, but after experiencing the futility of battle against a better-armed foe, many Xhosa chiefs took a more nimble approach. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Other men who had the talent took Samuel’s tricks and sold them and grew rich, but Samuel barely made wages all his life. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Bull stood there accepting the small hurts of the border skirmishes waged on four frontiers of his body. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z If I stay, I’m gainfully employ on a salary ain even startin to be a minimal wage.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z You must be willing to work long and hard at substandard wages. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z A thirty-five cent piece was big enough for a man with an ice shaver to buy and sell “icies,” shaved ice with flavored syrup, and make a day’s wage. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z She also may have felt ambivalent about the suffrage issue because she was a Quaker; many Quakers refused to vote because they did not want to participate in a government that waged war. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z He comes home that Friday night, throws his wages on the table and says to Mam, Are you happy now? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She traveled from city to city, telling people about the low wages and unhealthy working conditions at Marx & Haas, and asking them to support the striking garment workers. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Workers were striking all over England, fighting wage cuts and demanding the right to vote. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted to use his pulpit to wage a war against drunkenness and the use of alcohol. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Certainly, the war is still being waged, but as to its status, we’re in the dark. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z In evading and warding off wage increases, employers are of course behaving in an economically rational fashion; their business isn’t to make their employees more comfortable and secure but to maximize the bottom line. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Mill employees labored at dangerous jobs under miserable conditions—and for poverty wages—breathing in cotton dust until their lungs were brown with the stuff and they suffocated. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “There’ll be three looms for you to tend, a nice fat raise to your wages for these several weeks.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The peasants still had to work on the same land, but instead of growing their own crops, they got paid in wages—they weren't allowed to sell or eat their own produce. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Demand for railcars to carry visitors to the exposition had spared the Pullman Works, but by the end of the fair George Pullman too began cutting wages and workers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z My mom grabs my hand and squeezes it, an indication I should stop talking—but fear and anger are waging a war inside me right now, and I can’t stop myself. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z It was only a few months ago that there was finally a pause in the thousands of wars being waged all over the planet. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The civility of this encounter belied a caustic battle being waged outside Jackson Park for the rights to illuminate the exposition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In April 1952, President Truman fired MacArthur after the general made public statements disagreeing with the president over how the war should be waged. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But this time, in the settlement that followed, black rights to equal wages were left on the cutting-room floor. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But what could the former slaves dor1 Every Indian who accepted the paltry wages specified in the indenture contract lowered the price an African could charge for his labor. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Some economists argue that the apparent paradox rests on an illusion: there is no real “labor shortage,” only a shortage of people willing to work at the wages currently being offered. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t a fortune but it was wages. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Man, if I had five dollars, I could pay down on a suit. Five dollars is almost half a week’s wages for me.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt no interest at all in his wages, since all he did was carry them home to Gebu. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z And if they did decide to explore on their own, without permission, they could be thrown in jail, sentenced to hard labor, or lose some of their hard-earned wages. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z There were other arguments waged in voices pitched low. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “There was nothing for me to do at home. My family is not rich, and King Cai offers a steady wage to his guards.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Tom became a railroad detective, and the steady wage made it possible to raise a family. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z On the one hand, the country was already waging an undeclared war against French privateers in the Atlantic and Caribbean. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I suspect the pay was just a bit over minimum wage, and I didn’t get an allowance. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z When Dad brings home the first week’s wages on a Friday night we know the weekend will be wonderful. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He was handicapped by illiteracy and he offered me the job of accompanying him on trips into the delta plantation area to write and figure for him, at wages of five dollars a week. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides that, they did not want Caesar and Pompey’s next battle to be waged on Egyptian soil. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The wages and working conditions of the farmworkers in an organic field aren’t much different from those on non- organic factory farms. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “I got my own food & supported myself on my wages,” she wrote proudly. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z My wages were fifteen dollars a week; the hours were long, but I ate my meals on the job. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He couldn’t find a decent job, and as of three weeks ago, he makes pizzas for minimum wage. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a robot had rolled on the surface of Mars, and in Afghanistan we were still telling Mullah Nasruddin jokes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The most obvious reason why they’re not is that employers resist wage increases with every trick they can think of and every ounce of strength they can summon. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They warned blacks that some Redeemers were not satisfied with having decimated Reconstruction, and were prepared to wage an aggressive war against blacks throughout the South. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The going rate for black teachers was just half the wage paid white teachers. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I paid half my wages for aspirin when Henek got typhus. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Madam Platt could not countenance this insubordination, but neither could she insist upon service when she could not pay a farthing in wages. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z My guess is that the indignities imposed on so many low-wage workers— the drug tests, the constant surveillance, being “reamed out” by managers—are part of what keeps wages low. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I had been humble, and now I was reaping the wages of humility. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z In the past, a semi-skilled black man in Chicago could earn a decent wage working in a factory. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The aspirin costs half my wages, which is frightening. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Yeah, maybe he’ll go over and apply at Media One, where a friend works and the wages are higher . Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “How old are you?” a man asked once when he was paying the boy his wages. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The city’s 80 percent unemployment rate, a result of the Great Depression, had led factory managers to reduce wages and inspired thousands of citizens to support the strikers. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z For two, perhaps three seconds, a terrific battle of minds for status and authority was waged between a boy and a tiger. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z But others—single mothers for example—have nothing but their own wages to live on, no matter how many mouths there are to feed. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The saloon keeper was a ruthless boss, beating and insulting the wayward slave at every turn, stealing wages and dignity, the hard image of northern white attitudes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z To Granny, I had accomplished a miracle and some of my sinful qualities evaporated, for she felt that success spelled the reward of righteousness and that failure was the wages of sin. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The Golden Rule was a fiercely nonunion shop—which would, over the next few years, find itself at the center of a citywide boycott and labor battle—and as a result wages were low. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They may exhort potential customers to “Compare Our Prices! ” but they’re not eager to have workers do the same with wages. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Surely, if she were earning wages they would no longer expect her to scrub floors and weed the onions. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z And every drug war that has ever been waged in the United States—including alcohol prohibition—has been tainted or driven by racial bias. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He was still hell-bent on me working fast food for minimum wage, because he said saving tuition money was more important. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “Let me never see the day when my children will have to accept that, the wages of sin,” she says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z On the contrary, I was amazed and sometimes saddened by the pride people took in jobs that rewarded them so meagerly, either in wages or in recognition. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Notwithstanding the leadership’s rhetoric about the family nature of the business, the gang’s wages are about as skewed as wages in corporate America. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z With such an extraordinarily large population to choose from, decisions must be made regarding who should be targeted and where the drug war should be waged. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Glad to hear it. I understand your boy here is a good worker. You can come and take his wages at the end of each month.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When democracy came, everyone had to be paid a minimum wage. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Ophie knew that colored folks had not always been free, and she understood that her work for the Carutherses resonated within the same patterns of history, even if she was paid a modest wage. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “If we earned a fair wage, your children wouldn’t have to work,” she said. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Working conditions did not substantially improve, but the company agreed to re-hire union workers and raise wages. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z For to play a system requires money, while the wages of a gardener’s helper do not lap over the needs of a wife and numerous progeny. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z She saves a few shillings from her wages taking care of Mr. Sliney to buy bread, ham, brawn, cheese, lemonade and a few bottles of stout. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z More than a month’s wages on heavy crew. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z I want to quit school forever and get a job, get my wages every Friday, go to the pictures on Saturday nights like everyone. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z But the long hours and meager wages meant the need for additional income. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z She was waging yet another battle with school officials to get permission to appear with the choral group in the Christmas program. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The strike against wage cuts swept west along the rails through Chicago, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, to San Francisco—100,000 workers halting commerce for forty-five days. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Not surprisingly, this drug forfeiture regime proved highly lucrative for law enforcement, offering more than enough incentive to wage the War on Drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Federal law provides that a child-support enforcement officer can garnish up to 65 percent of an individual’s wages for child support. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z At last the relief authorities placed me in the South Side Boys’ Club and my wages were just enough to provide a deficient diet. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as Burnham had feared, union leaders began using the future fair as a vehicle for asserting such goals as the adoption of a minimum wage and an eight-hour day. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Van Riper beat Blue Team because of what he had learned about waging war in the jungles of Vietnam. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “It is a fine sword. If you wish me to bring you Gerd, this sword will be my wages.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Saturday night, he called upon me as usual for my week’s wages. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z While luxury stores, miraculous finance companies, exotic restaurants, and import business were flourishing, the unemployed lined up outside factory gates waiting for a chance to work at the minimum wage. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The ruling class paid African labor a subsistence wage and then added value to the cost of the goods, which they retained for themselves. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z You don’t need a degree in economics to see that wages are too low and rents too high. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “The double shifts and docked wages, all because of your fancy scheme. And here you are, sitting nice and cozy, probably counting your money.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “Certainly,” the New York Times reported in March 2000, “inflationary wage gains are not evident in national wage statistics.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, he felt privileged: his New York wages dwarfed the $1,000 a year he might have made in Mexico. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The only child of immigrant parents, orphaned at the age of twelve, self-educated, hard-working Samuel Westing saved his laborer's wages and bought a small paper mill. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z A strike based on a political grievance rather than on clear-cut issues like higher wages or shorter hours is a more precarious form of protest and demands particularly efficient organization. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In 42 BCE, the Caesarians waged two battles against the Republicans in Macedonia. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z They have taken retraining classes for jobs that pay half their old wages. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z It’s the most basic option we sell, but still worth a week of my wages. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Every night the shadow war was waged anew beneath the stepped pyramids of Meereen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Their point is particularly relevant to the predicament of minority police officers charged with waging the drug war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Among other praises bestowed upon him by writers, Philopoemen, Prince of the Achaeans, is praised because in peacetime he thought of nothing except the ways of waging war. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z They rang for higher wages, they rang for better food, they rang for open revolt, for patriotism, for common sense, and for a wholesale return to Japan. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z She placed her note on top of a stack of bills—nine hundred dollars of her saved-up wages. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Such are the wages of the kinslayer,” he said as the wind howled outside. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “The IRS would have taken his tax return for child support if he’d filed and, if he had a job, the state would have garnished his wages.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z He strongly supported more rights and equality for the working class, such as better wages and the right to join labor unions. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z She waged a campaign to invent a more humane trap for game-hunting. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They picked the best of the lot, advanced a month’s wages to settle their debts, and signed them on. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I run down the stairs and up to O’Connell Street, the main street, where the lights are on and people are going home from work, people like me with wages in their pockets. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Some of my classmates are going through a war ... an undeclared war, waged on innocent kids just trying to grow up. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z What he means is that he couldn’t take my wages no more to buy booze. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Hicks didn’t tell the eager-for-work men that he paid low wages. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Of all the strategic fields on which to wage war against Bull Meecham, the automobile was the most precipitate. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Getting sent out meant the minimum wage—minus Uncle Sam’s share—for as many hours as you were needed. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Soviet women soldiers waged a private battle against men’s underwear the whole time they were fighting their invading enemy, the German army. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z We saw this as a dress rehearsal for the campaign Mr. de Klerk would wage against us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We handed most of the potatoes over to the landowner in exchange for our wages, but some we boiled into soup, which we ate every night for dinner. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He takes a few dollars from his wages and goes out. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The difference, however, is that wages and rents in Bangalore are less than one-fifth what they are in those Western capitals. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z For Cleopatra, luck came in the form of the civil war being waged between Caesar and Pompey, the two generals who now ruled Rome. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z “That much!” my father cried, astounded; the amount was a tenth of his wages. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Chloe’s brother, Hunter, is paid a little for working part-time at the rendering plant, but the Marshes have told us they’re not giving us any of his wages in rent. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Well, ma’am, Big Charlie tolt me the only way he could go was if I paid him half his wages ’fore going and half once we got back. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Many of the men and women carrying placards were old friends of mine, and they were chanting for higher wages for Works Progress Administration artists and writers. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Also raised his wages fifty cents a week. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z If they didn’t get fair wages and safe working conditions, they could strike. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Trotter had obviously never heard of either the minimum- wage or the child-labor laws. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z As far as tens of thousands of private citizens and many government officials were concerned, these strikes were not simply motivated by hopes for higher wages. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z It would be nice if someone would read this sad-eyed crowd the Sermon on the Mount, accompanied by a rousing commentary on income inequality and the need for a hike in the minimum wage. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They do not explain why the US military waged a ground war against Indigenous nations for more than a century after that, and why conflict continues today in the courts of the United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Thus it is here, in the poverty-stricken, racially segregated ghettos, where the War on Poverty has been abandoned and factories have disappeared, that the drug war has been waged with the greatest ferocity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 makes it illegal to punish people for revealing their wages to one another, but the practice is likely to persist until rooted out by lawsuits, company by company. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The uncomfortable reality is that a literal war has been waged on our most vulnerable communities, and convictions for relatively minor, nonviolent offenses have propelled mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Even though I know, if we touch, a new tug-of-war—one that will be even more painful than the quiet one Adam and I have been waging these past few months— will begin. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In his first month in office, Barack signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which helped protect workers from wage discrimination based on factors like gender, race, or age. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He knows it's wrong to steal from the church, but he tells himself it's for the greater good, it's a war for truth that he's waging. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Mother made sure that Viola got nice new lengths of cotton in the summer and flannel in the winter, along with her weekly wages. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The alchemist had become much more cautious, because they were approaching the area where the most violent battles were being waged. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And the foot soldiers earned just $3-30 an hour, less than the minimum wage. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In some places where they waged war on Indigenous peoples, they destroyed magnificent statuary and artworks just to take the gold and silver the artisans used. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z In spite of his meager graduate student wages he sets aside money to send every few months to his father to help put an extension on his parents’ house. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z A woman whose wages she paid, whose rent she had subsidized, whose daughter spent hours and hours under this very roof every single day. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z This is cleaner, more mechanical, a war waged through the air, invisibly, and the front lines are anywhere. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The gang not only paid for the funeral but often gave a stipend of up to three years’ wages to the victim’s family. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He stayed still, but she saw a tremor pass through him, as if he were waging a war with himself. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z How can a country like that continue to wage war against England? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I explained how I would give part of my wages to my sisters so they could feed me. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Populous native societies not thereby eliminated were destroyed in the same way the Aztecs and Incas had been—by full-scale wars, increasingly waged by professional European soldiers and their native allies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “That is certainly far below the wage that I had expected.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Without high productivity, she says, the work will move to lower- wage countries such as China. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z By then they had gained a few pounds, earned wages, and begun to forget the daily sting of the plantation. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z With wages included, this amounts to about the minimum wage of $5.15 an hour. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They said blacks earned good wages, but that wasn’t true. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I was attempting to organize the campaign and practice as a lawyer at the same time, and that is no way to wage a mass campaign. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But the United States, for all its wealth, leaves its citizens to fend for themselves—facing market-based rents, for example, on their wages alone. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “A rich lady from the town supports the house, and we pay a little for our room and board from our wages.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z They love being your soldiers when you are not waging war, but when war comes, they either flee or desert. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z When Dad brings home the first week’s wages and the weather is fine Mam takes us to the playground. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z But if rents are exquisitely sensitive to market forces, wages clearly are not. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Oh, she says, we’ll have a lovely tea when your Pop brings home the wages tonight. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He would buy some clothes with his wages as soon as he had the chance. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Declaring that he would never take back the strikers, he raised the minimum wage for a police officer and set about recruiting an entire new police force. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z By the second year of his training he began treating minor cases by himself, and from then onwards Kenny paid him a small wage, not regularly but as and when funds came his way. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z By waging a war on drug users and dealers, Reagan made good on his promise to crack down on the racially defined “others”—the undeserving. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Now, thanks to those two neglectful men, their Nemesi are doomed to wage war against each other until the end of time, growing angrier and angrier with each passing year!” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Not only do police discriminate in their determinations regarding where to wage the war, but they also discriminate in their judgments regarding whom to target outside of the ghetto’s invisible walls. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z After the death of Duke Filippo, the Milanese employed Francesco Sforza to wage war against the Venetians; having defeated the enemy at Caravaggio, he joined with them to oppress the Milanese, his employers. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z North Vietnam’s ruler, Ho Chi Minh, was waging war to unite the country under one government—his. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “How long do you think the Yunkishmen will want to continue paying wages to four free companies?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I’m missing all of the new topics that are being added, but I can’t raise my hand if I don’t know what it’s called...wage something. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z I was hired at eight dollars per week and promised a raise of a dollar a week until my wages reached ten. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Fifty thousand pounds in modern money, using a retail price index, but £725,000 in modern money using an average wage multiplier. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They agreed to a five-year contract, during which they were to be paid a daily wage, and were given promise of a return passage back to India. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z In good times, when wages were up, the family might enjoy a little extra mutton on the table or a new pair of shoes. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Successive waves of immigrants filled its factories, working for little above minimum wage as they cut, sewed, and hustled the garments into trucks to carry across the country. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Three hours’ wage was a high price to pay for answers, but I reached into my overcoat pocket for my billfold. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Each weekend I put my wages and my tips under the carpet in the drawing room. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The exposition’s union carpenters, aware of their great value in this final phase of construction, seized the moment and walked off the job, demanding a minimum union wage and other long-sought concessions. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They had freed their slaves, yes... only to hire them back as servants at wages so meagre that most could scarce afford to eat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And there was only one place in New England where a girl could get a good cash wage for her work—and that was in Lowell, in the mills. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z If they’re as concerned about this matter as they claim, then let them judge the evidence in the case and cease using the case as manufactured evidence to wage war against segregation. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z “You’ll go to the whipping post, and a fine will be added to your debt—the sum of the two tickets I just lost. By my calculation, that’s about six months’ worth of your wages.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Three weeks later on a Friday my mother gave me part of her monthly wage, and I went to the clinic. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z At the time, he was earning about nine times more than the average American industrial worker’s wages, but he was ready to devote his life to battling sin and alcohol. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I didn’t have much learning of numbers, but it seemed like they was saving the wages to be $1.15 or $1.50 a week. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In other words, a crack gang works pretty much like the standard capitalist enterprise: you have to be near the top of the pyramid to make a big wage. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Suffragists saw the vote as a way they could make the world a better place by using it to increase wages, eliminate child labor, and reduce government corruption. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z But to paraphrase Keynes: in the long run, we’ll all be broke, at least those of us who work for low wages and live in exorbitantly overpriced motels. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, Bobby launched an aggressive series of moves, waging a board battle that was later described as both a “slugfest” and a “sparkling attack and counter-attack.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Millions of dollars in federal aid have been offered to state and local law enforcement agencies willing to wage the war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Their wages wouldn’t even get them out of debt to my grandmother, not to mention the staggering bill that waited on them at the white commissary downtown. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z That came to almost eight dollars an hour—which my dad said was a lot more than I’d make minimum wage at McDonald’s. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z She worked and worked and worked but, living under my grandmother’s roof, she wasn’t allowed to keep her own wages. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He remembers my father, how he spent his wages and his dole while singing patriotic songs and making speeches from the dock like a condemned rebel. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Kunthi’s two eldest sons were among the first in the village to start work at the tannery, and between them they brought home more than a man’s wages. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z For a wage of about $60 a month, Smith slept and ate in horse stalls and struggled to keep up with the farriery needs of fifty-four horses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z "After you left I was thinking...I really could use a hand. But I could only pay minimum wage, and only a couple shifts per week." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z These new Indian hires had accounting backgrounds and were trained by Reuters, but they were paid standard local wages and vacation and health benefits. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z “When house-elves have decent wages and working conditions!” she hissed back. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z At work he’d see signs of his luck turning — a run of placid chickens, a mistake in his wages to his favor — every time something new to fuel him. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z On the morning of the fourth Friday of Dad’s job Mam asks him if he’ll be home tonight with his wages or will he drink everything again? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z So if Booth is no longer a kidnapper, how will he wage war? Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z I paid George’s and my sisters’ school fees, bought them books and still was left with half my wages. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The distance the Bureau has kept from the rest of the world is an evil separate from the war they intend to wage against our memories—more subtle, but, in its way, just as sinister. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Of course it was Chacko himself who pointed this out to them and promised that as soon as things picked up, their wages would be revised. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “In starting and waging a war,” he told his generals, “it is not right that matters, but victory. Close your hearts to pity! Act brutally! The stronger man is right!” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Sure, almost any old union would boost wages and straighten out some backbones here, but I know that even the most energetic and democratic unions bear careful watching by their members. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They left her to her crying and finished their tea, while Dobby chatted happily about his life as a free elf and his plans for his wages. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I’m part of the Friday-evening commuter throng, just another wage slave amongst the hot, tired masses, looking forward to getting home and sitting outside with a cold beer, dinner with the kids, an early night. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Tomorrow, on the first day of summer, as the sun was setting, he would finish his wall, and then he would leave Asgard with his wages. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z White workers got higher wages, but Fred didn’t complain: eighty cents an hour was more than most Lackses had ever seen. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z They paid her wages full and just, but there was no certificate of honorable discharge from the Concord Corporation, and with no certificate, she would never be hired by any other corporation in Lowell. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z She moved to Philadelphia and cooked for us, saving her wages to set her husband free. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If finishing college and becoming an artist had been a dream for my father, he quickly redirected his hopes, using his wages to help pay for his younger brother’s degree in architecture instead. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It was grueling work up there, and wages were pitiful, but when the call came through camp for workers to alleviate the wartime labor shortage, it sounded better than their life at Manzanar. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “I make a good wage, sir. Lately it’s been three dollars above my board.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Today, opponents debate the need for a minimum wage and workers’ right to organize. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z She was the daughter of King Laomedon, who had cheated Apollo and Poseidon of their wages after at Zeus’s command they had built for the King the walls of Troy. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon blacks were gathered at Quinn Chapel, celebrating the first-ever wage scale in Chicago that gave equal pay to black and white waiters. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I place my wages on the table by her elbow and turn to go. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z British and American planes waged brutal air assaults over Germany in retaliation. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Teaching had paid a poverty wage; his medical practice yielded an income only slightly larger. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Our mandate was to wage acts of violence against the state — precisely what form those acts would take was yet to be decided. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A war has been declared against poor communities of color, and the police are expected to wage it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A charge of“idling” in the fields could result in the loss of a whole week's wages. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Saturday wouldn’t mean nothing to you, either,” I says, “if it depended on me to pay you wages. Get those things out of the crates now and drag them inside.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “You oughta tell your customer use they ashtray, tell them peoples you workin a man in here below the minimal wage. Maybe they be a little considerate.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Why hadn’t I asked all these questions about wages and hours before? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “The ones behind the counter? They get minimum wage.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z From the outset, the drug war could have been waged primarily in overwhelmingly white suburbs or on college campuses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z We also waged a battle for the minds and hearts of the children. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet at so fearful a risk the farmers, with none to hinder them, waged their needless war on blackbirds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Uncle Pa has a steady job and he brings home his wages every Friday. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Further, they stated that the money their society had collected for making coffins and burying the dead “has not defrayed the expense of wages which we had to pay to those whom we employed.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z One is that the battle was waged for more than seventy years. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z At the end of the week Mrs. O’Connell hands me the first wages of my life, a pound, my first pound. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Five different kinds of overpowering cologne waged war in my sinuses as I passed the store. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z If you decide to stay and work, you will be paid wages as free men.’ Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The “resolution” for the sample debate was that “Fair governments should require employers to pay a living wage,” and I kind of have an opinion on that. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z The Boston police had hoped that by going out on strike they would gain the public’s sympathy and would force the city to give in to their demands for better wages and working conditions. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z His second set of awards gave out more wage increases and benefits. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “I don’t want change; you know that. Take your wages.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z She’d heard that many people were leaving Birmingham for the North, for the higher wages they said they could earn in northern cities. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Brown smiled the same smile he had been used to use when he docked Tristran a morning's wages for five minutes' lateness. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Like so many workers in so many different crafts and industries throughout the country, the nation’s steel workers had expected that their wages and working conditions would improve once the Great War was over. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z But whatever keeps wages low—and I’m sure my comments have barely scratched the surface—the result is that many people earn far less than they need to live on. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I am saving most of my wages for the debt. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z They agreed to nearly double the workers’ wages and shorten the workday. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Soon the Rad Lab would have to pay its scientists a living wage. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “He would go to war, if King Uther declared one. Do you know that Homo sapiens is almost the only animal which wages war?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z At the beginning of 1967 our rent was hiked; my father’s busfare was hiked; prices at the store were hiked; my father’s wage remained the same. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though the nation’s steel companies were enormously profitable, their workers were paid wages so low they could barely afford to feed, clothe, and house themselves and their families. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “And after school,” Mr. Nielsen says, “you will be expected to help in the store. We’ll pay you an hourly wage, of course. You know about the store, Dorothy, do you not?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Bottom line: $7.02 worth of food acquired in seventy minutes of calling and driving, minus $2.80 for the phone calls—which ends up being equivalent to a wage of $3.63 an hour. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And now, having waged this war for decades, we claim some blacks “support” mass incarceration, as though they would rather have their young men warehoused in prison than going off to college. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The National Labor Relations Act, also known as the Wagner Act, guaranteed workers the right to form unions and collectively bargain for fair wages and workplace safety. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z The pay was just above minimum wage, which suited me fine. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I helped by using my wages to offset part of my siblings’ school costs. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z With her wages she had bought a new dress and bonnet. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z This development enhanced their ability to wage legal battles but impeded their ability to acknowledge or respond to the emergence of a new caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z For us, such struggles — for sunglasses, long trousers, study privileges, equalized food — were corollaries to the struggle we waged outside prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The economic forces that caused jobs to migrate to low- wage countries are still active. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He brought home his wages but kept his tips for liquor. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Years ago the farmers tried to draw more labor than they needed so that they could lower wages. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z So why don’t employees behave in an equally rational fashion, demanding higher wages of their employers or seeking out better-paying 7 “Companies Try Dipping Deeper into Labor Pool,” New York Times, March 26,2000. jobs? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Each evening he appropriated the boy’s scanty wages doled out by Pai at the close of every long day. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z The wages those Mexicans received for their labor were only a measure of their disadvantaged condition. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A stranger sidles up and whispers, “You want to make a better wage? There’s good work upriver.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He would take half a week’s wages and go out and buy something he wanted, or something he thought she wanted. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z He had lost his entire wage for the past week in dice and had had to borrow bus fare. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z There are 32,000 men playing soccer at some professional level in Brazil, but 80 percent earn less than $540 a month, barely double Brazil’s minimum wage. World Cup fuels longshot dreams for Brazil’s poor 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Tax cuts put into place under the Bush administration that slashed rates on wages, dividends and capital gains are set to expire at the end of 2012. FDA approves diet pill 2012-06-27T17:50:00Z Levy’s noirish novels have long examined the wages of traditional femininity — “the exhausted phantom,” she has called it. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Jihad in Arabic means “struggle,” but, with respect to Islam, denotes “a struggle in the name of faith,” which includes holy war against infidels waged as a matter of religious duty. The real New Atheism: Rejecting religion for a just world 2013-12-14T19:00:00Z Many of them never see their “wages”, as they are paid directly to agents or family members. Beaten, raped and forced to work: why I'm exposing the scandal of Nigeria’s house girls 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z His father, who had been decorated in the first world war, kept the family going throughout the Depression on his wages as a bookbinder. Kenny Ball 2013-03-07T17:31:53Z Other migrants came to the United States as a consequence of the wars that the U.S. waged in the Philippines, Korea, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. 'The Making of Asian America' is a stirring chronicle long overdue 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Minimum wage is what you get; there are no real raises. The glamorous life of a whistleblower: Working a dead-end job for minimum wage 2014-04-25T12:15:00Z Instead of statistical distributions of wealth, Mr. Beckert’s focus is on planters and enslaved workers, manufacturers and wage laborers, the center of the British Empire and colonies and, later, developing nations. ‘Empire of Cotton,’ by Sven Beckert 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Yet his findings were disregarded by the White House gung-ho hawks, who went ahead and made the "Niger" claim anyway in support of waging war. Fair Game ? review 2011-03-10T15:00:00Z But the directors and other senior executives are paid with private funds outside the federal wage system. Women are increasingly getting the top museum jobs. Will more of them finally get equal pay? 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Fox appealed Pauley's ruling, contending that interns are not employees subject to wage protection if they, not the employer, are the "primary beneficiaries" of the internships. NBCUniversal to settle suit by former interns for $6.4 million 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z The Met last month locked out its stagehands in Local One of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees because it has been unable to negotiate wage cuts during the pandemic. Met Opera’s revenue drops, breaks even with gifts, borrowing 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z I'd rather pay someone a living wage for doing an honest day's work. Mayor de Blasio’s Plan for Parks Needs to Grow 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z “Money should be a part of it to help cover for lost wages and lost opportunities but the state’s response should go beyond that,” says Parks. Why Etan Patz still haunts us 2012-05-25T18:00:00Z It’s a tale that acknowledges the eternal struggle we all wage with time, but also the even greater one we fight with ourselves. Why Harold Ramis’ “Groundhog Day” is a perfect guide to life 2014-02-25T16:32:00Z Low wages translate to lower ticket prices, which in turn bring more passengers, who stay longer onboard to spend precious dollars on alcohol, gaming, spas, classes, and other costly add-ons. ‘Overbooked’: the impact of exploding tourism on cultures and environments 2013-03-13T21:39:31Z But then we remembered: because of the wage gap, a dollar for a woman is not the same as a dollar for a man. If Women Had Their Own Currency, Here's What It Would Be Worth 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z The July 2013 lawsuit is one of dozens filed in the United States challenging private companies' longstanding practices of paying interns nothing, or less than minimum wage. Saturday Night Live interns settle NBCUniversal wage lawsuit 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z According to Vidal, the New York Times waged a campaign throughout the 1950s to obliterate him as a novelist by refusing to review his work. Gore Vidal, US writer and contrarian, dies aged 86 2012-08-01T06:41:08Z The ongoing protests by fast-food workers for higher wages and paid sick days underscore the most visible problems. Fast food restaurants don’t need to pay starvation wages 2013-09-11T15:11:00Z Meanwhile, the lost wages put them at an economic disadvantage. Free Tampons Are Actually a Great Idea. Just Don't Mention It Online 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Then a need to trade, to inhabit, to conquer, to preach, to take part in a pilgrimage, to migrate and settle anew, to wage a war or to seek refuge. Travel: Philip Marsden’s ‘Rising Ground’ and More 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z And I’m thinking: Higher wages is good for people. Marty Walsh: ‘I have a president and a vice president who really believe in the mission of the Department of Labor’ 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z Others have embraced activism, picketing outside the orchestra’s office with signs reading, “We demand a living wage!” and “How low can you go?” The Pandemic Struck Orchestras With Underlying Conditions Hard 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Insurgents, many of them from the Karen ethnic group, waged battles with government troops along the Thai-Burmese border. 'Burmese Lessons: A True Love Story': an intimate witness to rebellion in Burma 2010-06-02T22:41:00Z Rainforest Alliance certification tackles living wages, climate smart agriculture and the conservation of biodiversity, among other practices; it also seeks to prevent and otherwise tackle forced labor in tea supply chains. An exploration of the wonderful world of teas 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z We're living in a time of wage stagnation where every dollar, at least in my house, counts. A Thanksgiving Casserole for Everyone at the Table 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z His solutions include a jobs guarantee with living wages and meaningful work. America’s Refusal to Address the Roots of Violence 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z Cuomo said a task force will be assessing salons across the state, requiring them to pay back wages and install ventilation systems where necessary. The high price of cheap manicures: what can consumers do? 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z However, the restaurant still agreed to pay the back wages, Tampa Bay Brewing Company confirmed to Fox News. Florida restaurant paying employees $70K in back wages for allegedly giving tips to managers 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Elliott said there simply wasn't enough enrollment to maintain the full staff and wages. Hip Hop High' charter school closing 2010-06-21T18:48:00Z As the waging of war has grown increasingly secretive and privatized, presidents have built on precedent. Books of The Times: ?Drift? by Rachel Maddow of MSNBC Traces American Militarism 2012-03-28T22:36:04Z Other downsides include going back to an hourly wage. The Return of the Ski Bum 2010-02-19T23:59:00Z Beyond notes and beyond words, you committed yourself and dedicated your fame and career to wage some of the greatest wars of our time. U2 frontman Bono receives France's highest cultural award 2013-07-16T21:52:40Z If your local crowd can only afford to pay £2 on the door, it's hard to match the kind of wages that big-name DJs demand. New Europe: Poles dancing 2011-04-03T20:38:01Z When the minimum wage last went up, staff pay didn’t, so it looks like the company absorbed service charge money to pay the increase. ‘The manager was selling coke to staff’: the truth about top restaurants 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z “We are promised very long hours and low wages and stale bread,” he said. The Carpetbagger: 64th Berlinale Kicks Off With Premiere of ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ 2014-02-07T16:59:55Z And number two: if he is at all sincere – and we will see if he is – in developing programmes to create jobs and raise wages, I think we should work with him. Bernie Sanders meets Spike Lee: ‘Where do we go? Where is the hope?’ 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z Yet the film wages an internal battle between its ripely sensual atmosphere and its often stilted pacing and plotting. 'Circumstance': forbidden love under watch 2011-09-15T19:23:04Z Pundits like to cite that the wage gap for women is 77 cents to a man’s dollar, but forget to note that it’s 64 cents for black women and 55 cents for Latinas. Whitewashing reproductive rights: How black activists get erased 2014-02-25T00:00:00Z The pay cuts will end with the start of the new season on Sept. 8, but wages will be frozen and an expected salary increase will be delayed to 2021-22. Kennedy Center and NSO musicians reach agreement to avert furloughs 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z A couple of places — the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, and the Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kansas — are so ruggedly non-triumphalist they offer critiques of the very conflict that their principal subjects waged so assiduously. America’s forgotten war 2012-11-23T15:00:00Z Mr. Finkelstein said that in both factories they pay workers three times the living wage, plus health insurance. On the Runway: Homegrown, With a World View 2010-11-11T21:01:00Z Dax must wage is one on behalf of empathy and reason over regiment and convention. This Memorial Day weekend watch Kubrick’s “Paths of Glory” 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Some argue that tips should be abolished altogether, and that customers should not bear the responsibility for making up for low minimum wages. 10%? 20%? Apps Are Changing How We Tip 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Our reviewer wrote, “How to approach a memoir of a war still being waged?” Homeira Qaderi Wants Her Son to Know Her, So She Wrote a Book 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z One gives her an angry pre-sex lecture on class warfare: “How many people on minimum wage have ever produced a single job?” Perspective | Two provocative dramas show how a feminist story need not always be a triumphant one 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z How to End the Great Recession To fix the U.S. economy, we must finally deal with wage inequality, Robert B. Reich writes. | 'Vision Disturbance': Seeing in Just 2 Dimensions as Her Marriage Breaks Up 2010-09-03T22:35:00Z On a good day, the service charge can lift her wages to as much as $27 an hour, on par with what she earned downtown. How to Make an Unloved Job More Attractive? Restaurants Tinker With Wages. 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z Next Friday or Saturday . . . they would hand over their wages to Mr Price in return for whatever they had pawned today. Rereading: Love on the Dole by Walter Greenwood 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z Last summer, between her freshman and sophomore years, she fried corn chips and rolled burritos at Chipotle, saving her wages to pay a few contributors. A New Generation of Food Magazines Thinks Small, and in Ink 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z In 2007, a year after Hamas eclipsed the dominant Palestinian nationalist movement Fatah in parliamentary elections, the two groups waged a civil war for the control of the Gaza Strip. Palestinian director overcomes politics to screen love story 2011-12-14T14:00:18Z The people of the region are probably hostile,” he informed them, before giving instructions on how to collect his back wages if he didn’t return. Where Rimbaud Found Peace in Ethiopia 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Among his finest essays on the wages of sex is his 1964 novel The Blue Room. Review: Sex and Death, French-style, in The Blue Room 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Caught in the sweep of police cameras, Maud is implicated as an enemy combatant in what constitutes an early war on terrorism, waged by a nascent U.K. surveillance state. Review: An Uneven Vote in Suffragette 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z “What are the policy reforms that are needed to change this? Everything from campaign finance reform to minimum wage to income tax benefits.” Ashley Biden knows a presidential campaign is coming. For now, she’s talking hoodies and economic inequality. 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z He said to me very clearly that since 1974, American wages have flattened completely per capita -- what a working man can make, union men. Oliver Stone: Our empire is in decline 2010-09-23T11:01:00Z Both are at the same wage level as they were in 1998. Under-30s being priced out of the UK, says Alan Milburn 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z That foundation, also in financial trouble, waged a long court battle to override the wishes of Barnes, who stipulated that none of the collection could be lent, sold or moved. Corcoran Chairman Defends Merger Plan in Court 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Dahlia Lithwick's look back at the legal battles of the Trump era, and the women who waged them, is unexpectedly timely. Arts & Entertainment - Washington Post Rss Loading... Arquette — who acknowledges that she’s not a longtime advocate — quickly rose as a champion for pay equality, after making a fiery call for the end of the wage gap during her Oscar speech. “Women in the United States are being economically smothered”: Patricia Arquette continues quest for equal pay 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z High point Winning the American Film Institute award for best film for Zero Dark Thirty: the citation called it "a definitive tale of our times, where the battle waged is one of intellect over arms". Megan Ellison, the most powerful new force in Hollywood 2013-02-18T19:56:34Z It’s being waged by an economy that has driven the real incomes of ordinary Americans downward year after year for four decades while demanding ever more exorbitant displays of holiday largess. The war on Christmas movies 2012-12-08T17:00:00Z "We feel that our wages, our craft, our creative freedom, and the power of our union have all been undermined in the last decade. We need to reverse those trajectories." Hollywood actors are now on strike too, joining writers on picket lines 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z If we did what other music venues do and actually paid a wage, six of us would be making £16k a year and there would quickly be no Forum. Powered by pure passion: the music venue that runs on love alone 2012-11-25T00:05:30Z The worker who checks their ticket may well be a volunteer, paid not with wages but with a ticket to the show. Dave Matthews Caravan a field of dreams 2011-06-28T21:50:00Z The bulk of the action takes place in Mexico, where assorted splinter groups wage their endless turf wars, and New York City, the central marketplace for heroin and every other drug. Review | Don Winslow’s ‘The Border’ offers a harrowing look at the war on drugs 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z It’s a hat that Ron eventually grows into in a story of a man waging a battle on two inexorably twinned fronts: his ravaged body and newly wakened conscience. ArtsBeat: Toronto Report: The Rebirth of Matthew McConaughey 2013-09-09T14:12:48Z They may also reflect the broader surge in labor activism during the pandemic, as employees have fought for better wages, working conditions and job protection. The Pandemic Struck Orchestras With Underlying Conditions Hard 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Flinty and funny, McDormand never asks for pity for her character, who craves her independence but wouldn’t say no to a living wage. Perspective | Best movies of 2020: Diverse thrills, chills, Dickensian laughs and a pandemic-friendly trip to Greece 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z Former journalist Paul Kingsnorth was recognised for The Wake, in which 11th Century Anglo-Saxons wage a guerrilla insurgency against the Norman invaders. Rylance-backed book wins £5,000 prize 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Leaders said the lowest paid crafts were receiving unlivable wages and streaming outlets including Netflix, Apple and Amazon were allowed to work them even harder for less money. Strike dodged with deal between film and TV crews, studios 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z Husbands squander their wages on “the last lingering pint and the chip-shop queue”; old men, clutching flimsy welfare checks, “walk around and fill in the day.” Shrewd Short Stories That Merge the Hopeless and the Hopeful 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Arguments are still waged online over whether the movie is a commentary on gentrification or racism. ‘Shrek’ at 20: How a Chaotic Project Became a Beloved Hit 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z The same applies to the other great mystery of Heath's prime ministership – the famous U-turn from watered-down neo-liberalism to industrial intervention, wage controls and a doomed attempt to introduce a form of tripartite economic governance. Edward Heath: The Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography by Philip Ziegler 2010-06-18T23:15:00Z And in an effort to hang on to its work force during the so-called Great Resignation, it has also increased wages for some employees by more than 25 percent. Nightlife Inflation: The Cost of Going Out Is Going Up 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z He spends most of her wages down the bookies. TV review: How to Live With Women, Classroom Warriors 2011-02-28T22:01:00Z Teicher speculated on a variety of options: "Increase efficiencies" in the supply chain, tax breaks to offset wage hikes, the removal of price stickers from books and deeper discounts from publishers. Independent bookstores remain on a roll, their membership numbers growing for a seventh consecutive year 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z But you sure can't help noticing the clamorous debate that Limbaugh's outbursts have ignited: Is a war on women being waged, with Rush the poster boy? Rush wreaks the s-word, but why are people so mad? 2012-03-09T13:39:09Z Shortly after Pangu made its displeasure known last week, Paramount Pictures waged a diplomacy campaign. 'Transformers' fight in China continues; Jiaflix swipes at Pangu 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z “We’re working in New York City and paying fair prices,” Ms. Beatty said, referring to the wages she pays sewers and others. The Designer Turning Two Used T-Shirts Into High Fashion 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z They realized fully that the institution was hurting their chances of not only getting jobs but making any kind of a living wage. Roots of white rage: America’s clash of class and race, from the Civil War to the rise of Trump 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z That battle may be waged in the future. 1,000 Years of Art at the Edge of the Gobi Desert 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Money, in the form of donations from wealthy converts and the wages of the angels, kept rolling in. The divine inspiration of Jim Jones: Inside the mind of one of history’s deadliest cult leaders 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Will the anticipated bump in minimum wage help food-service workers hang on in these Seattle neighborhoods against the tide of rising rents? 5 areas where the working poor, well-paid techies live side-by-side 2014-05-07T04:00:00Z Political campaigns are increasingly being waged online and success depends on understanding the algorithms of influence and connection. Celebrity power drives the headlines 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z After James’s death in 1625, Buckingham continued to enjoy royal favor but caused increasing public resentment for waging unsuccessful military campaigns in France and Spain. Newly found Rubens portrait of King James I lover unveiled in Glasgow 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Members are paid according to a formula that takes the cost of feed into account and guarantees a fair wage and a reasonable return on the farmer’s investment. Sustainable pork farming is real 2013-04-14T17:00:00Z Ms. Stum, 30, spurned pricey subscriptions for reservation and scheduling software, and instead used that money to help pay every member of her small team $12.15 per hour, Maine’s full minimum wage. How to Make an Unloved Job More Attractive? Restaurants Tinker With Wages. 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z That is in part because the company pays hourly workers at least $3 more than the $8.50 minimum wage and absorbs the cost of worker training itself. Shinola Takes Its ‘Detroit Cool’ Message on the Road 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z In other places, environmental groups pay local people a living wage to patrol the rain forest and collect those thousands of deadly snares. Vietnam’s Empty Forests 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z The following month, he received a letter from the court saying he owed $1,300 a month in child support – a payment that would be big stretch on his wage of $26 an hour. Dads' rights: the rise of firms for fathers going through divorce 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z It's not like something we're doing to manipulate the wage model or benefit our pockets. "Equity within the whole restaurant": The problem with the tipped wage 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z Both movies are adventures about a lone soul who wages a daring battle with the elements and his roiling anxieties. Denzel Washington in Flight: A Crash Landing That Soars 2012-10-16T19:00:52Z He was apparently angry at Lustig's refusal to pay his assistants what the actor considered to be a fair daily wage. Russell Crowe 'threatened to kill producer with bare hands' 2010-04-28T09:10:00Z And whether that norm is eating meat, driving massive cars or flippantly waging war, changing the status quo warrants more than just knowledge — it requires the will to change once knowledge is available. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z If Lyndon Johnson declared a war on poverty, then Trump is waging a war on the poor. A journey through a land of extreme poverty: welcome to America 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Garment workers subsisting on less than $3 a day recount beatings by bosses who resent unionization and requests for higher wages. Review: ‘The True Cost’ Investigates High Price of Fashion Bargains 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Still, the actual prize money was hardly a living wage and as graduation loomed, the offer from a local software company was the obvious and practical choice. Lara Croft battles male jerks 2012-06-14T16:15:00Z After a lifetime waging battles against American racism and capitalism — in song and deed — Jackson said he’d had enough, and planned to relocate full time to France. Brian Jackson, a Key Gil Scott-Heron Collaborator, Reintroduces Himself 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Has man’s urge to wage war changed much? Is civilization good? Author Jared Diamond investigates 2012-12-29T03:08:49Z China Miéville at the Edinburgh international book festival, where he called for a uniform, blanket salary for writers, novelists and poets equivalent to the 'wage of a skilled worker'. China Miéville: Writers should welcome a future where readers remix our books 2012-08-21T18:15:42Z Then in wage discrimination, so really across the board. New "OK Boomer" book tries to heal generational rift between Millennials and Boomers 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Since the photo project started, the Fight for 15, now 2 1/2 years old, has gained ground; last month, McDonald’s announced that it would raise wages and add benefits at its corporate-owned stores. ‘I, Too, Am America’ Shares Snapshots From Workers Living on the Edge 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z They started having concrete victories with wages and developed an "office workers' Bill of Rights." 9to5 eventually went national, and even unionized, transforming the labor movement. New doc "9to5" spotlights the women who rose up against sexism and harassment at work in the 1970s 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z Its war has been waged through images as well as armaments. The Ancient Syrian City ISIS Is Destroying, Preserved Online 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Was it a difficult museum boss who staffers say worked them to the point of exhaustion for low wages and treated them with little respect? Mass Resignations Embroil Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z A report by the thinktank said ministers needed to strengthen controls in the gig economy both by enforcing current minimum wage rules and broadening protection to include new groups of workers. UK minimum wage law 'should cover more self-employed workers' 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z To calculate her reported wages on “CSI,” raise that figure somewhere into the hundreds of thousands. Marg Helgenberger, theater lover, gets the big break she’s been waiting for 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z I earned, I think, 40 cents extra for each lathe over the required quota, but the quota was so high that few of us earned more than minimum wage. Magazine readers respond to stories on tobacco, workplace advice 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Much like Captain Kidd and Johanna, the quartet moves from place to place, navigating saloons, dance halls, public houses and other places trying to string together a meager wage. Paulette Jiles’s New Novel Goes Deep in the Heart of Texas 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Among the most haunting stories recounted in these pages is that of two brothers, Akbar and Manouchehr Mohammadi, who led a secular student group and who were found guilty of waging war against God. Review: Laura Secor’s ‘Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran’ 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z But Nolan’s centre found that three-quarters of these jobs pay around £3 an hour, less than half the minimum wage. Is Finland’s basic universal income a solution to automation, fewer jobs and lower wages? 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z The wage gap continues to yawn lazily without effective laws to reduce it. All of Your Heroes Teamed Up to Make a PSA Encouraging Women to Vote 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z For me, watching a character figure out how to come up with rent from the wages available in today’s economy is ultimately suspenseful in the most sobering kind of way. David Simon, J. Cole, Patricia Lockwood and Others on Social Issues as Manifested in Art 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z In addition to performing in that pageant, he works for puny wages at a restaurant catering to tourists coming to sample Native American culture in kitschy doses. Theater Review: ‘Cherokee,’ Lisa D’Amour’s New Play, Opens in Philadelphia 2014-01-31T22:22:10Z For almost a decade, Taylor Swift has been waging, and winning, a war, smiling all the while. Taylor Swift's '1989': New Album Review 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Some diners may balk at the idea of having to pay a set gratuity, but the charge is not a tip and instead, a service fee that is treated as a wage for workers. Are forced gratuities legal or not? The answer may disappoint stingy diners 2023-07-30T04:00:00Z In this century of nonstop military conflict, the American public has never fully confronted the immense costs of the wars being waged in its name. The American way of war is a budget-breaker 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z The campaign that was waged against midwives did a great job, and it did a great job on me. "Aftershock" directors on how the anti-midwife campaign wrought the Black maternal mortality crisis 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z It continues to be relevant today in the gig economy, among restaurant workers, at Amazon, among those engaged in the fight for a $15 minimum wage, etc. Punching the Clock (and the Boss) With Dolly, Lily and Jane 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z “They are protesting for a living wage. They are protesting for basic human rights. They are protesting for full and rich lives, and they’re not getting paid enough to create that for themselves,” he said. Protests disrupt London Film Festival in cinema wage dispute 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z So the fact that the wages would be fairer would be something that I would look forward to seeing. Yalitza Aparicio Is the Oscars’ First Indigenous Mexican Actress Nominee 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Even back in the 19th century, when newspapers were the primary arbiters of who or what was worth knowing, Dickinson understood fame's impermanence and the risks and wages involved in pursuing it. Ready, set, bake! Apple's vibrantly witty "Dickinson" layers in the sweetness and spice of fame 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z Seriously - "more social supports, like guaranteed paid parental leave. I’d argue that universal health care and a higher minimum wage would help, too." Are iPhones Bad for Kids? 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Restaurants must run on a mix of both, accepting payment mostly in CUCs but using CUPs for supplies and wages. What, Reserve a Table? Cubans Confront a New Dining Culture 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z “I think the wage structure there has gotten out of control over the years, and it’s not sustainable,” she said. Met’s Labor Woes Divide Opera Fans as Well as Participants 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z That can’t be welcome news for the Seattle City Council, which in May authorized an action plan to address the discrepancy between men’s and women’s wages. Did Amazon's growth widen the gender pay gap in Seattle? 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z She, like all of us, is waging a daily battle against entropy. Review | ‘Brood,’ a quiet meditation on the small stuff, makes for a perfect pandemic read 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z But Rupert Murdoch waged an unrelenting campaign to bring his elder son back into the corporate fold. Rupert Murdoch names sons to lead Fox 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z He is touched by some employees’ kindness and moved to tears by an office worker, a cancer survivor with a large family to support, who performs three people’s jobs for one hourly wage. 2010-02-06T07:37:00Z They bend to their work, or what they call their art, like wage slaves on a North Korean assembly line. David Chase's Not Fade Away: The Sopranos Sing the '60s 2012-10-05T23:52:58Z The lawsuit, filed Monday in San Jose, said the companies "agreed to work together to deprive thousands of workers" of better wages and positions at other firms. DreamWorks Animation, Disney sued over alleged no-poaching scheme 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z It shows the disconnect between those reading the balance sheets and those grinding themselves into the ground for the minimum wage. TV highlights 25/08/2011: Edinburgh Comedy Fest Live 2011 2011-08-24T22:00:01Z It would also improve the bargaining power of millions of low-wage workers — forcing employers to increase wages, add benefits and improve conditions in order to retain them. What if the Government Gave Everyone a Paycheck? 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z And the cheaper the manicure, the more likely it is that the technician’s wages are being stolen. 5 of the most horrific revelations about New York City’s nail salons 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Workers protesting for higher wages were reportedly arrested during a “planned act of civil disobedience” at Kennedy International Airport in New York. American Airlines demonstrators at Kennedy airport arrested 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z With Cesar Chavez he picketed grape-growers, demanding better wages and living conditions for workers. 50 years after Robert Kennedy’s assassination: Don’t get caught up in conspiracy theories 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Gomis, 39, said the film was against this fear, showing the main character wage an internal war to overcome it. Senegalese film celebrates last day of life 2012-02-10T16:10:56Z In the process the show reduces McPherson’s remarkable life to a cliché-bestrewn fable about the wages of fame. Theater Review: ‘Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson’ 2012-11-16T03:00:13Z Both companies deny they failed to comply with wage- and-hour laws regarding their interns. Charlie Rose settles $250,000 suit with interns over wages 2012-12-21T03:14:52Z She also pointed to how the federal government was, at the time, waging armed conflict against Native activists in Wounded Knee, South Dakota. From political protest to perceived slights, 7 reasons why actors have rejected their awards 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z If she still refuses to speak English during your visits, your mother may be waging a small war for dominance over your husband. Mom, Can’t We Speak English Here? 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z The system, I think, it's set up for a full-time minimum wage worker. "There's no way to save up money": "Maid" author Stephanie Land on the rigged math of being poor 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z The suit claims Henry routinely worked more than 40 hours a week, but never got any overtime wages. Warner, Atlantic sued over unpaid internships 2013-06-17T23:19:07Z "And they wage a silent combat, which is a real combat waged by humankind. That's where the optimism lies in the film." Mike Leigh brings Turner's stormy seas to sunny Cannes 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Last year, she left New Orleans after six years, citing stagnant wages as a reason. We asked bartenders to talk about a topic they traditionally avoid at work: politics. 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z “A few — not very many — theaters will try to make the minimum wage agreement work,” Flynn said. For actors in L.A.'s small theaters, curtain rises on new minimum-wage rules 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Taking The High-Road: In-N-Out Burger The striking fast food workers have been calling for better working conditions, starting with higher hourly wages and paid sick time. Fast food restaurants don’t need to pay starvation wages 2013-09-11T15:11:00Z Was I surprised by the fear-mongering campaign waged by those against Houston’s equal rights ordinance? Civilities: Why Houston’s repeal of the ‘bathroom bill’ isn’t surprising 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z It’s also a company that pays a living wage. Generation B: Experienced Hands, Still Valued 2010-03-05T22:10:00Z Amazon announced yesterday that it has reached a settlement with Hachette Book Group, ending a contentious period of negotiation the two entities have waged in public since last year. “The Sword of Bezos is no longer hanging over our head”: Author Douglas Preston on the Amazon/Hachette deal 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z “Congratulations to the workers for taking this step,” Sawant said during the Friday rally, and touched on her signature twin themes of higher wages and affordable housing. Frye security staff form union, joining unionization push at other museums across the country 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z But there were limitations to his vision, an ambition sapped by studio bills, staff wages and the need to think deeply about branding possibilities for multinational clients pushing luxury products. True to type: why letters are a labour of love 2010-10-16T23:00:00Z “The wage gap between men and women hired for major roles in Hollywood is still an issue,” he said of the continuing divide between male and female actors. Watch Andy Samberg Tackle Diversity and Sexism at the Emmys 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z With incredible timing, the show’s second season began airing in the UK days after the BBC was forced to reveal the wages of its top stars, exposing a cavernous gender and ethnicity pay gap. Insecure’s Yvonne Orji: 'I’m 33 years old and I’m a virgin' 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z The other, the Kendleys, worked in the mill, lived in company housing, and received their meagre wages in credits for the company store. Weekend Reading: A History of L.A. Palm Trees, Two Civil War Families 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Nor should it be forgotten that defending difference took a lifelong fight, one which she was willing and able — supremely able — to wage. ‘I’m Nobody’? Not a Chance, Emily Dickinson 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Supporters credit them with the 40-hour work week, the weekend, fair wages, safe working conditions, overtime pay – much of the edifice that build the American middle class in the mid-20th-century. Can unions save the creative class? 2013-03-18T16:25:00Z Stagnant wages and mounting debt may discourage them from paying expensive greens fees and investing in costly equipment. The future of “golf” may not be on the links 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z While Germany is considered a wealthy country by most standards, the average annual wage of ordinary workers is 34,000 euros. Globetrotting Germans dig deep for Brazilian adventure 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Reader: On May 11, you said the Department of Labor requires employers to pay for or reimburse workers for uniforms if the expense reduces their weekly pay below minimum wage. @Work Advice: When no more raises are in the cards Yes, white workers suffered a loss of relative economic privilege, but it was global macroeconomic forces that drove down wages, not “unqualified minority applicants.” Why we fight about Colbert and Lena Dunham: Twitter politics are all we have left 2014-03-29T16:00:00Z “Eliminating the two-tiered wage system is essential to ensuring a fair and just future for the nation’s 11 million restaurant workers.” Restaurant industry leader Danny Meyer ends tipping. Who will follow? 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z The new wage could quadruple what actors earn from a typical production. L.A. actors send union strong message against enacting pay hike 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Unemployment in Detroit is down, profits are up, wages are good, and there is no problem too tough or too challenging for us to solve.” Review: ‘Once in a Great City’ Chronicles Detroit’s Glory Days 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z Pianko founded the group Intern Justice as a vehicle to represent unpaid interns challenging wage violations. PBS' Charlie Rose settles with unpaid interns as lawsuits spread 2013-07-01T23:47:10Z The handful of local companies that run trekking and cave tours mostly have kept the groups small, and the prices and wages above average, with an emphasis on leaving no trace behind. Exploring Spectacular Caves in a Quiet Corner of Vietnam 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z Attorney General Eric Holder commended the agency and the city for the fight they’ve waged so far, but he said there’s much more to do. ‘Your dad’s in jail’ 2012-06-26T16:33:00Z But wages are so pitiful at around £60 per month that workers are currently risking their lives in protests to fight for more. Virginity for sale: inside Cambodia's shocking trade 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z The median wage of waiters and waitresses in London is 7.33 pounds per hour, just above the legal minimum wage of 7.20 for people aged 25 and over, according to official statistics. For London's food and wine businesses, Brexit has a bitter taste 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z Because that's the equivalent of a whole year's wage — not just for him, but for all of his staff as well. Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z "These apps currently pay workers far below the minimum wage, and this pay rate would help lift thousands of working New Yorkers and their families out of poverty," she said. Judge blocks new NYC delivery worker minimum wage increase until hearing is held 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z "We aren't asking for huge wage increases, or extravagant bonuses. All we want is to be offered a fair contract in line with the industry standard." 'Transparent' on Amazon isn't tolerant when it comes to unions, musicians say 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z This Metropolitan Playhouse revival of Bayard Veiller’s 1912 play reminds us that income inequality, living wages and an arbitrary criminal justice system have long been fodder for popular entertainment. Theater Listings for June 27-July 3 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z One bottle costs more than 6 percent of the minimum monthly wage in Turkey. Steep alcohol taxes drive Turkey's drinkers to home-brew 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z My grandmother needed equal wages; she needed help with childcare, not a boss who’d let her off in time to start the roast. So much for “family values” 2012-10-28T21:00:00Z Increase the minimum wage, ensure decent housing, provide medical care. Perspective | The true connection between poverty and obesity isn’t what you probably think 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Female rural workers in China, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh earn up to a third less than their male counterparts, but the wage gap appears to be narrowing, the report said. Rising rural wages in Asia will reduce extreme poverty: report 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z He waged a lifelong campaign to improve the tuba’s image. Harvey Phillips, a Titan of the Tuba, Dies at 80 2010-10-24T04:19:00Z But it’s a demanding grind that has Mr. McCarthy’s crew working long hours — at union wages — for months at a time. A Shop Where Movie Cars Are Born, Then Modified 2010-05-15T03:03:00Z The wage freeze and deferred increase result in an additional $1.5 million in savings, according to the Kennedy Center. Kennedy Center and NSO musicians reach agreement to avert furloughs 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Permanent global war waged in the name of freedom. Review: ‘Doomocracy’ Looms at Fright Night in Brooklyn 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Additionally, organic certification is not required, though there is a stated focus on worker rights and living wages. The basics of coffee labeling 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z Proponents argue that instituting one single minimum wage will combat poverty. Growing push to raise the minimum wage for tipped workers 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Some are gilded poster-boys, some are Marxist militants, and some are lowly seamstresses, supposed sitcom fodder, hunched over their Singer sewing machines,expecting an honest day's wage for an honest day's work. Made in Dagenham 2010-09-20T23:36:00Z This gimmick gets old, especially in the final scene when Quint and the Governess are waging a tug of war for the soul of Miles. Britten ghost story at City Opera 2013-02-25T15:53:18Z Working at a restaurant with set wages, said Wilkinson, would eliminate uncertainty. Why some restaurants are doing away with tipping 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z In addition to millennials changing eating habits, some say the growing push for a $15 minimum wage is another threat to the industry. Celebrity chefs Giada, Ramsay and Fieri on how industry can attract millennials, deal with wage hikes 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Warshawski, always ready to wage war against injustice, tracks a missing mother and son whose compelling story reaches back to pre-WWII Austria and encompasses nuclear secrets past and present. Adam Woog’s 10 best mysteries of 2013 2013-12-04T22:02:39Z Straightway the plotline’s pickup in 1984 forces Saint to confront the wages of his criminal ambition as his burgeoning crack empire rips apart his community swiftly and mercilessly. What to watch after "Stranger Things" season 3: Start with "Harlots" 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z You don’t know their cost of living or what wage they receive. The Blue Flame of ‘Hotlanta’ 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z When we talk about IP today, we are talking about free speech, access to information and health care, the right of repair, fair wages and equal dignity. Was Andy Warhol's portrait of Prince copyright infringement? How this case could reshape IP law 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z As we grow increasingly disillusioned with quick-fix consumerism, we may want to consider an option which exists in many non-digital industries: quite simply, demanding that writers get paid a living wage for their work. Are books dead, and can authors survive? 2011-08-22T16:21:14Z The battles that Van Ness has waged against the darker corners of his soul to become the bright light we know today provide the necessary context for this book to shine. Jonathan Van Ness, Ali Wong and John Hodgman Walk Into a Bar … 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z "We have to wage a determined fight against radical Islam, against these religious symbols which are filtering into public spaces," Valls said in an interview on BFM-TV. French PM defends burkini ban but some in cabinet wary 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z His job approval soared to 89 percent after he waged the brief Persian Gulf War. Book review: ‘41: A Portrait of My Father’ by George W. Bush They're also supporting various groups that further their political interests, including climate change denial and the abolition of Obamacare and the minimum wage. If Larry Wilmore boycotted the Koch brothers, what would he give up? 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z I had stopped working at a pub in December, and I was on minimum wage. In New ‘Star Wars,’ Daisy Ridley and John Boyega Brace for Galactic Fame 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Whether you measure success in wages or personal satisfaction, superstars in the workplace tend to be energetic and proactive, with a high need for achievement. Your partner is the secret to career success 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Strippers allegedly worked more than 40 hours a week but didn't get paid overtime and had "unauthorized deductions" from their pay that meant in some weeks they weren't paid minimum wage, according to the complaint. Strip club owner sued in wage dispute 2011-08-19T19:08:00Z Stocking's complaint states that the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble in Los Angeles owes her back wages totaling more than $6,000. Essential Arts & Culture: Trump v. Shakespeare, LACMA in Venice, Beyonce's think tank 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z She had a low wage job in a department store, a high school diploma, and a mother who told her she'd kick her out if she didn't get married. My mom finally made her choice, after a lifetime colored by the one she wasn't allowed 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z Another recognition: “Cab driver, pointer finger in a pot of Tiger Balm/dabbing on the temples and nasal septum for that sting of wakefulness,/cutting through the edgeless fog of wage labor.” Jenny Xie Explores the Subversive Power of the Concealed and the Overlooked 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Woven throughout the haunting visuals is a timely meditation on cinema, capitalism and the wages of Manifest Destiny. Perspective | Best movies of 2017: ‘Mudbound’ is a quintessentially American classic 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Neither Mr. Paiva nor his supervisor would say what the job pays, but ZipRecruiter estimated the average annual wage for a fish cutter at about $32,500. Cutting Up Big Fish and Cultivating an Even Bigger Fan Base 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z While DHL’s post and parcel division employs its own delivery staff and pays them according to collective wage deals, the freight and forwarding unit operates an “asset-light” strategy based on brokering services from third parties. Keeping on truckin': DHL seeks to counter driver shortages 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z “Either I can get a job at a grocery store, make minimum wage and never see my children,” she told Cissy. The evangelical women who visit strippers to 'show God loves them' 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Though it seems unfair to punish the server for a diner’s beef with the kitchen, federal law allows such deductions, as long as they don’t reduce average hourly pay below minimum wage for the workweek. Work Advice: When it comes to tipped employees, things can get complicated 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z The chance wages of the tip jar are mystical, undefined, practically psychedelic; therefore they are more attractive than the cold hard reality of the paycheck. Tipping breeds indentured servitude 2013-09-09T12:00:00Z This results in high wages not just for skilled workers but for most workers. What gets declassified? 2012-05-31T21:09:00Z The implicit rate of return on college expenses, received in the form of college graduates’ higher wages, is 14 percent, Lieber reports, or nearly twice what most would consider a decent stock market return. How to Pay for College (and Not Lose Your Shirt) 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Amazingly, they're super friendly to the family, as are all "lost tribes" to western film crews, chiefly because they've usually been paid the equivalent of five years' wages by a fixer. Andy Capper's Screen burn: My Family's Crazy Gap Year 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z What are the hourly wages of a dancer compared with the soaring costs of insuring and transporting fine art? Dance Finds a Home in Museums 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z A 2010 follow-up in the American Economic Review found that factories targeted by anti-sweatshop activists saw the largest wage increases while Nike has responded by shifting production to other nations, like Vietnam. Sweatshops still make your clothes 2013-03-21T15:36:00Z To call a detention center a childcare center is a dystopian misnomer that sends a clear message: The war on immigration will be waged on the bodies and souls of children. A liberal parenting paradox: Meticulously raising our kids while migrant families are torn apart 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z Wages are 20 to 30% below what wages in the Bay Area are, but home prices are relatively high. Tomorrow's Real Estate Trouble Spots 2010-04-27T17:00:00Z For an organisation rooted in the principles of equality we are very disappointed that Mobo is once again seeking to exploit weak enforcement of the national minimum wage by choosing not to pay its interns. Mobo criticised over unpaid workers 2013-09-27T09:52:20Z When the Confederacy lived, ordinary Southerners distinguished between themselves and the wealthy and well-connected Confederates waging war to maintain slavery. Ibram X. Kendi Likes to Read at Bedtime 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z The video is part of an aggressive media war being waged by Islamic State, especially online and on social media sites, in addition to its brutal military tactics on the ground. Baghdad's National Museum of Iraq re-opens in rebuke to Islamic State 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z In the next breath, she notes that the wage gap still has women averaging about 70 cents for every dollar earned by men. ‘Rapture’ and ‘Heidi Chronicles’: Feminism then and now 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z For a decade, the anonymous soldiers of the Jewish underground waged a terror campaign to establish a state, targeting first Arabs, then British forces, then Arabs again. Long, long road 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Strong unions helped keep wages high, local political power brokers and party bosses made sure that working-class needs were represented in the marble corridors, and mass-membership organizations put a check on runaway greed by elites. Why Do Trump Supporters Support Trump? 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Your suggestion that wages are the obligation of employers is a hedge, not a solution. Do I Really Need to Tip for Drip Coffee? 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z The Pope suggested in his Easter address that “this may be the time to consider a universal basic wage”. Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z This battle, as the women knew from the start, is waged through public opinion as much as through the courts. Seven Turning Points from the Year in Sports 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z It accuses the companies of conspiring to fix the wages of animators, digital artists, software engineers and other workers and making "non-solicitation" agreements with each other. DreamWorks Animation, Disney sued over alleged no-poaching scheme 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z After a decade mired at minimum wage, Mac meets three stoners who predict a glorious future for him. Ten Years Later, Adam Gwon Is Looking to Kill 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z All told, the television and movie industry created $8.2 billion in direct wages in New York state last year, trailing only California’s $17 billion. Tax break helps New York City lure back ‘Tonight Show’ 2014-02-22T22:35:17Z In February, the congresswoman tweeted that she would be paying everyone on her staff “a living wage.” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez uses pricey croissants to criticize opponents of $15 minimum wage 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Should they offer modest improvements in wages and political access in the hopes of quieting popular fury? ‘Peterloo’ Review: Political Violence of the Past Mirrors the Present 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z But on March 12th, the International Transport Federation published a letter criticizing the partnership, noting that Uber drivers often lack basic job protections like minimum wage and health care. UN Women Breaks Off Partnership with Uber 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Culinary Union members receive free health care and are paid above-average wages. 98 arrested in union protest on Las Vegas Strip 2013-03-21T03:21:12Z To stand out, Gallego has spent a lot of time talking about progressive politics — with hopes of raising the minimum wage and lowering the cost of prescription drugs. Ruben Gallego made mental health part of his campaign. Specifically, his own. 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z And the president is committed to getting that wage up. Marty Walsh: ‘I have a president and a vice president who really believe in the mission of the Department of Labor’ 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z Once Mr. Murphy’s cerebral, melancholy, exactingly rhythmic songs offered listeners a new language with which to explain themselves: sentimental yet ironic, self-mocking, focused on friends and the complicated wages of adulthood. Pop: James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem: ‘Shut Up and Play the Hits’ 2012-07-07T04:51:37Z We’ve had wage cuts across the board and very, very sadly, a round of redundancies. Six Months in the Life of a Locked-Down Theater 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z Union leaders also question the cost of the impasse, saying Strathmore has spent money on lawyers that it could have directed toward employee wages. How a dispute with a handful of Strathmore ticket-sellers led to impasse with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, canceled concerts 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Set in Oakland, California, where writer-director Riley was born and lived for 30 years, the theme of rising rent, lower wages and fewer careers couldn’t be more relevant. Sorry to Bother You: why Boots Riley’s surreal race allegory is this year’s Get Out 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z The rights of immigrants and the wages and working conditions of those who pick, process and transport food are still live and contentious political issues. Movie Review: Hero Worship Abounds in ‘Cesar Chavez’ 2014-03-27T22:07:35Z At the same time, however, the resistance campaign waged by the Deltas is decidedly apolitical. From Bluto Blutarsky to Donald Trump: The United States of "Animal House" at 40 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z Regardless of the customer, the wages earned help almost everyone in the community. Fishing by Lantern on an Island in Kenya 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z We are told to start our own businesses, and some of us do, although many of these businesses are not successful enough to pay a living wage. Can women over 50 “lean in”? 2013-03-23T15:00:00Z When the wages of Amy's rage bring violent men into Jordan's fortress, the wealthy white woman's privilege ends up being her undoing, and her gruesome comeuppance becomes the plot's big "O." What makes "Beef" so seductive? Understanding the intimacy of rage sheds light on that ending 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z These are not living wages for adults or families. Fast food restaurants don’t need to pay starvation wages 2013-09-11T15:11:00Z Thus the war on drugs was waged mostly on hippies and slackers and the underprivileged. ‘High Times’: A 40-Year History of the Magazine 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z “I think the things that would support artists are the things that would support everyone: a living wage, Medicare for all, and affordable housing,” she said. For Artists in Need, a New Coalition Brings $11.6 Million in Speedy Relief 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Tipping originated in feudal Europe, and while it gradually became less popular there, it’s only become more critical for service workers in the United States, whose wages still depend on the whims of diners. What Is Hospitality? The Current Answer Doesn’t Work. 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z But it's hard to imagine that such efforts could be waged without the protection of the Nato troops. Bibi Aisha, victim of the Taliban's political strategy 2010-12-05T00:06:00Z "If you combine that with the fact that wages are static or falling, that unemployment is an issue and that private rents are going up, it can only mean one thing." Britain's hidden homeless and the death of Michelle Conroy 2013-01-20T08:00:00Z Come nightfall, they’re either avoiding the cleaver or somehow related to a group of hunters wearing clown masks, who are waging a campaign of dread upon an upscale Middle American town. "American Horror Story: Cult" is FX's way of saying, "Tag, America — you're 'It'!" 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z The economy is growing, wages are finally climbing, crime is at or near historic lows and we live in a new golden age of television. Dystopias are fantastic in fiction. But do you really want to live in one? 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z While some essential workers did receive hazard pay in the form of lump-sum bonuses and wage multipliers during the pandemic’s early months, that hazard pay was available for a short amount of time. How Long Can N.Y.C. Museums Survive at 25 Percent Capacity? 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z Argyro Roula Manis is seeking unpaid wages from the past five years and asking that a judge allow other current or former strip club employees to join her claims. Strip club owner sued in wage dispute 2011-08-19T19:08:00Z It turned out to be a roomful of arguing Trumps, spouting verbatim the contradictory statements he has made on issues like abortion, the minimum wage and nuclear proliferation. The New Politics of Late Night 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Thus, for at least several savvy employers in Virginia, Myers says, there was effectively no minimum wage. The wage theft epidemic 2013-02-20T16:00:00Z Some people are surprised that the Republicans are waging a war on women, or that they voted against equal pay for women. Jane Fonda: “I never was a hippie!” 2012-06-09T22:00:00Z Dining is 15 to 20 percent more expensive there, in no small part due to the fact that the waitstaff makes a minimum wage of $17/hour, and costs are passed on to customers. Readers respond to tipping story 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Prosecutors claim the Teamsters were trying to secure wages for unnecessary services as drivers during the filming of "Top Chef," which had hired non-union workers for those positions while filming throughout the Boston area. Trial of Teamsters accused of 'Top Chef' extortion plot to wrap up 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Whether you’re black, white, Latino, there are millions of people today who are working longer hours for lower wages, and they’re seeing almost all new income and wealth going to the top 1%. Bernie Sanders meets Spike Lee: ‘Where do we go? Where is the hope?’ 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z One of the most fascinating elements of City of Ghosts is the thoroughly modern media war being waged by both sides, via messaging apps and social media accounts. City of Ghosts director Matthew Heineman: 'Imagine seeing people crucified – every day' 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z In countries like Mexico, where wages are low, she advised tipping in restaurants as you might at home. A Traveler’s Guide to Tipping in a Changed World 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z He has also helped create a culture within the company — elevating starting wages to $13 an hour, creating career paths for staff — so that employees see their job as a lifestyle, not a paycheck. Fast Casual Nation: The movement that has changed how America eats 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z It unfolds against the upheavals of 1930s China, as the Nationalists and Communists face off and the Japanese wage war. 'The Golden Era' a 'Reds'-like tale of Chinese novelist Xiao Hong 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Obama has campaigned relentlessly this year for populist issues like raising the minimum wage. Obama shares an (atypical) 'day in life' of Minnesota woman 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Those battles were waged with armies of cardboard squares, which you pushed around on a map board of hexagons. ‘Of Dice and Men’: the lure of Dungeons & Dragons 2013-08-22T21:09:02Z In court documents signed just before the wage announcement, Lucas accuses Price of paying himself an “excessive” salary and depriving him of the “benefits of ownership in Gravity Payments”. Dan Price: the CEO who took a pay cut to give his staff a $70k minimum wage 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z They spend their obscene and endless pits of money when people are fighting and striking to make liveable wages. Mocking Burning Man's muddy catastrophe is just the latest example of how we cope with the rich 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Steiner says she’s trying to pay her staff more than a fair wage, and bravo to that. Review | I want to cheer for Pom Pom. But it’s complicated. 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z The two had another fight over the telephone later that morning after Hudson arrived at work and discovered her wages had been garnished because a car she co-signed with Balfour had been repossessed. Tears, drama at Hudson murder trial 2012-04-24T03:15:00Z Fiercely competitive from an early age, Mitchell waged a lifelong battle against sexism. Painter Joan Mitchell finally gets her due 2011-05-02T10:57:09Z As the distant war rages on multiple fronts, smaller wars — for position, honor, territory and profits — are being waged in Ybor City. Adventures from Dennis Lehane and Lene Kaaberbol 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z Still, there's reason to be optimistic about unionization efforts in the food system moving forward: California recently established a Fast Food Council where workers will have a say in determining minimum wage for the industry. Looking ahead: Top food and agriculture stories for 2023 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z And now, as the summer heat wages on, internet communities are spreading winter cheer. Christmas Time Is … Here? 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z In the mid-1990s, as this battle for hearts and minds was waged, effective medical treatments arrived. An AIDS Museum: The Challenges Are Huge, but the Timing Is Right 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Patricia Arquette, who won supporting actress for her performance as a single mother in "Boyhood," said "wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women." Oscars 2015: Diversity onstage stands in stark contrast to nominees 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Van Buren brought along two other men: his cousin and another fired worker also seeking back wages from Brown. The wage theft epidemic 2013-02-20T16:00:00Z You get free things and a really good wage and people quite often say quite nice things to me and that's really nice. 'Where I'm where I've always wanted to be' 2012-06-16T23:05:17Z Do you want to wage emotional combat with another woman? Perspective | Ask Amy: His ex and current girlfriends circle each other 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z “Our organization’s view is that contract between the diplomat and domestic worker was not a fair and just wage, of 25,000 rupees and 5,000 rupees overtime,” Mary said. High-profile arrest uncovers plight of India’s invisible workforce 2013-12-29T20:00:00Z She offered an even more convoluted and no more contrite response to the fact-checking of her statements about “living” wages, including her assertion that Walmart and Amazon are “paying people less than the minimum wage.” When it comes to calling out the news media, Ocasio-Cortez has some things in common with Trump 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z The Medical College of South Carolina settled the strike by offering higher wages and better job protections. Lonnae O’Neal: I wish everyone could see history the way my son and I did 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Eight continue to be unemployed or are working part-time jobs that pay near minimum wage. Generation B: Time, It Turns Out, Isn?t on Their Side 2010-03-12T02:14:00Z The result is “rampant minimum wage and overtime violations,” the report said. A nation of temps 2012-08-22T21:53:00Z “That’s my take on politics: I don’t know if the battles are winnable, but I know that I have to help wage them.” Theodore Bikel, singer, activist and Oscar-nominated actor, dies at 91 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Travelers have to reward businesses that pay their workers a fair wage and reject tips. Tips are being solicited more than ever, and travelers are prime targets 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z “So many of the things that you fought for are now in the Democratic party platform — fifteen-dollar minimum wage, overturning Citizens United, claiming your Hacky Sack as a dependent. It’s all in there.” “America will finally catch up with 1960 Sri Lanka”: Stephen Colbert puts Hillary’s run in perfect perspective 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z I worked in retail for minimum wage at age 16 and again at 53. The glamorous life of a whistleblower: Working a dead-end job for minimum wage 2014-04-25T12:15:00Z AGMA, the dancers’ union, said in a statement, also on Wednesday, that the artists boycotted the gala “based on management’s failure to adequately address the group’s substandard wages and benefits.” Ailey dancers skip gala after inspiring opening performance 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z His standard practice in villages was to determine the daily wage for a laborer and then pay the musicians double that for each hour of recording. David Lewiston, Who Recorded Indigenous Music Far and Wide, Dies at 88 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z How to approach a memoir of a war still being waged? When Rape Becomes a Weapon of War 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Though wage disputes and other financial challenges remain, the strike ended within 48 hours and the musicians signed a new contract. Classical Music Listings for Oct. 7-13 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Unskilled men’s wages have fallen in recent decades, but not by much. The new merry-go-round 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Romney's rivals were mostly waging a fierce battle to win undecided voters to capture second place in New Hampshire. Race for 2nd as Romney eyes N.H. win 2012-01-10T20:11:02Z We wage war, we burn sacrifices, and pillage and plunder and tear at the flesh of our brothers. Martin Scorsese’s Strained “Silence” 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Thanks as well to pandemic-era supply chain issues, food functions as a lens through which more and more Americans view topics like workers' rights and minimum wage. Shedding the misconception that cooking and politics don't mix 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Before long, they are waging a personal religious war of words in which neither listens to the other. Movie Review: ‘Paradise: Faith,’ the Second in Ulrich Seidl’s Trilogy 2013-08-22T21:51:23Z But after taking time to recover and care for her infant, Dimmock fell short of the yearly wages required to keep her health benefits with the Directors Guild of America. Hollywood Women Push Directors Guild for Better Parental Benefits 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z So, to increase employee wages without raising prices, more employers are succumbing to the temptations of tip creep and tipflation. Tipping etiquette and norms are in flux − here’s how you can avoid feeling flustered or ripped off 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z Or are you appalled by the idea of a child body care budget that represents 27 hours of work at minimum wage? Motherlode Blog: $200-a-Month Beauty Products for Babies? 2012-03-29T15:07:10Z There a trio wages a battle that will not save them but might save others. ‘The First Fallen’ Review: A Remembrance of Those Passed 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Raising the minimum wage, I know, is a priority of yours. Marty Walsh: ‘I have a president and a vice president who really believe in the mission of the Department of Labor’ 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z In Detroit, members of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra went on strike on Monday to complain about plans to cut their wages by a third. Motown sounds an orchestral warning 2010-10-08T15:43:00Z Questions about identity, paths not taken and the wages of time are also sprinkled over the narrative. Books of The Times: ‘NW’ by Zadie Smith 2012-08-26T19:49:57Z Most notable writers in the history of books were paid a living wage: they include Dostoevksy, Dickens and Shakespeare. Are books dead, and can authors survive? 2011-08-22T16:21:14Z “White Pearl’s” twist is to set this story of the wages of capitalism among young Asian women of various nationalities, and watch as the rivalries, ethnic misunderstandings and outright prejudices explode. Review | ‘White Pearl’ is an amusing take on the beauty business. But watch out — things get ugly. 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z They steered clear of Vietnam altogether while the war was being waged. Oscars 2013: and the overall winner is … politics 2013-02-23T23:22:53Z Minor league baseball players are subject to some of the poorest wages and most dreadful working conditions in America. America’s next big labor battle could be Minor League Baseball 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z “International organizations are waging a desperate fight to support these young people who are subjected to abuse and deprived of their human right to education. ‘ Iranian director calls Venice premiere ‘like a new life’ 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z Classes were canceled on Aug. 21 in East Baton Rouge Parish, when bus drivers and cafeteria workers pledged to call in sick that day over wage increases and short staffing. 12 of the biggest strikes during this Hot Labor Summer 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z Even though he came up in professional kitchens starting as a line cook, Ron Hsu didn't internalize the implicit inequity and racism of the tipped wage system until he became a restaurant owner, in 2019. "Equity within the whole restaurant": The problem with the tipped wage 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z Retail politicsAs a way of applauding Gap for raising its minimum wage the other week, the President went shopping at one of the franchise’s locations in Midtown Manhattan. | Pharrell’s Phragrance, Karl’s Custom Emojis and Obama’s Shopping Trip 2014-03-14T20:27:33Z Employees receive a detailed breakdown of their wage sources every other week. The Restaurant Service Charge Isn’t Going Anywhere 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z In addition to trauma, guilt and shame, the movie business is now left to contend with the wages of their idolatry, however artistically high-minded. Perspective | Harvey Weinstein and the dark side of Hollywood’s talent-worship 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z For now, here’s reminder of what Stewart looking like when it all began, 16 years ago. and when he waged war on Christmas We asked readers for their favourite moments as well. Jon Stewart hosts his final Daily Show - live! 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Though if she writes about the wage gap, family leave policies and all those other difficult, virtuous things, Lord knows if that book would sell as well. Review: ‘We Were Feminists Once,’ on a Movement Co-Opted 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z As the debate topic turned to candidate's views on the gender wage gap, Gillibrand instead pivoted to what she called a "broader conversation" at hand of "whether we value women." Sunny Hostin slams Gillibrand's attack on Biden: "She really played a game of dirty politics" 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Like many Americans of her generation and background, she spent the 1930s balancing — or rather juggling, while riding a unicycle on a high wire — radical politics, artistic ambition, wage labor and domestic life. Tillie Olsen Captured the Toll of Women’s Labor — on Their Lives and Art 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Politicians and philanthropists, psychologists and historians play a huge role in the launching and waging of America's war on cancer and the examination of that war. PBS' 'Cancer' documentary cuts to the heart of the matter 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z It will soon be 70 years since the Luftwaffe waged war on Britain and, to see what effect the bombing had, a specially built terrace of houses on a military base is subjected to attack. The Beauty of Maps 2010-04-19T05:45:00Z The wage theft epidemic Topics: In These Times, , wage theft, Budget cuts, Low wage, , , This article originally appeared in In These Times. The wage theft epidemic 2013-02-20T16:00:00Z The Guggenheim ultimately agreed and offered a better rate to “Timelining” performers than the living wage, which will vary according to inflation and the city where the piece is performed. Looking at How Performers Are Paid for Performance Art 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Politicians chosen by the wealthy won’t support labor unions, minimum wage increases or higher overtime thresholds. The college admissions scandal is just the tip of the inequality iceberg 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z Most private attorneys are unwilling to take wage theft cases, since they involve comparatively small sums of money. The wage theft epidemic 2013-02-20T16:00:00Z To tackle wage disparity between women and men. Marty Walsh: ‘I have a president and a vice president who really believe in the mission of the Department of Labor’ 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z The study finds that labour costs in the childcare industry relative to the wages of American women with college and advanced degrees decreased by 10% and 16% respectively in the past 30 years. High-fliers have more babies, according to study 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z If a borrower is in default, the government can seize tax refunds and garnish wages or Social Security. Are student loans the new subprime mortgages? 2012-10-07T14:00:00Z Mars and Earth wage war, then find a common cause in defeating the extremist threat posed by Inaros and his Free Navy. On its final run, "The Expanse" serves a last supper for we who continue to for our humanity 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z The actors fear that some small theaters forced to pay the minimum wage — which is $9 per hour in California — will fold. Some Los Angeles Theaters Told by Actors' Union to Pay Minimum Wage 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z He's in a more dangerous position, but Abbie is exploited by poverty wages and no minimum wage. "They are not victims": Director Ken Loach on his working-class heroes in "Sorry We Missed You" 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z In an industry that has been waging a 40-year global economic war of attrition, and mostly losing, it is heartening to see an apparel company committed to America. The Annals of Flannel 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z The role is yet to be clearly defined and she says the wage is "a glass of white wine". Malmesbury bids to become UK's first 'philosophy town' 2010-10-17T23:01:00Z In the 1950s she waged guerrilla warfare against the wearing of "paper-nylon" petticoats, designed to give a sticking-out effect to the skirts of summer dresses. Glamour versus feminism? Just look at the images in the media we all adore 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z The Bracero Program, among other things, guaranteed Mexican contract workers a minimum wage and sanitary housing. The largest deportation campaign in US history is no match for Trump’s plan 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z Prosecutors claimed the Teamsters were trying to secure wages for unnecessary services as drivers during the filming of "Top Chef," which had hired non-union workers for those positions while filming throughout the Boston area. Four Teamsters in Boston acquitted of 'Top Chef' extortion plot 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z “The… situation is urgent and dire,” the Drama Critics Circle added, with “a vastly constricted... less exciting theater scene” the likely outcome if the $9 wage goes through. L.A. drama critics pan pay hike plan for actors in small theaters 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z The musicians’ new contract is valid until 2019 and calls for wages to gradually increase over the next 3½ years. Olney, musicians union finally achieve harmony after 16 months of negotiations 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z That meant drivers who had been waged employees became “independent contractors” who now had to pay medallion owners for the privilege of driving cabs. Will “alt-labor” replace unions? 2013-01-29T20:45:00Z She is waging a comeback after a turbulent few years in her life in which she lost custody of her children, entered rehab and shaved off her hair. Britney Spears considers long-term Las Vegas deal 2013-02-08T20:05:14Z Quite the opposite, my mom waged a war to get me into more feminine attire. Mom’s girly presents to me 2013-12-24T23:00:00Z A decade ago, such platform wars were being waged abroad by American companies eager to expand. What Happens When Americans Join the Global Internet 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z He repeatedly asked Miller for statistics to support Miller’s contention that low-skilled immigrant workers displace American workers and depress wages. Clashes in the White House press room are riveting. But how far is too far? 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Seasonal employment, low wages, food scarcity and the booms and busts of the international coffee market drove them ever deeper into poverty. How Coffee Ruined a Country 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z He also hasn’t put his name on our son’s birth certificate, for fear that child support services will garnish his wages. Ask Amy: Mom needs to get real with deadbeat dad In practice, a complex compulsory medical insurance system plus low wages for doctors and nurses means that without substantial bribes, gaining a decent level of care outside the better private clinics is almost impossible. Which country has the world's best healthcare system? 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z “I was a geography teacher but the wages were poor, so I became a guide,” he said. Mountains of the moon: climbing Uganda's highest peak 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z In the case of Sangeeta Richard, she said the wage should be much higher as she was traveling overseas to a country where goods and services are much more expensive than India. High-profile arrest uncovers plight of India’s invisible workforce 2013-12-29T20:00:00Z Today, North Tulsans — 61% of whom are people of color, compared to 28% in South Tulsa — are about half as likely to earn a living wage as residents of South Tulsa. A century after the Tulsa race massacre, a grocery store opens to serve the community 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z But my grandpa didn’t consider how much lower his wages were back then. Thanks, "Avengers: Endgame," for showing us inflation 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z Last year’s sustainability report gave the company a frowny face for falling well short of its goal to get seventy-five per cent of its Los Angeles manufacturing team to a local living wage. The Vexed Appeal of Reformation 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z “This account puts almost as much weight on the hurricanes that badly damaged the Kennebunkport compound as on the decision to wage the gulf war,” Alessandra Stanley wrote in her review for The Times. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ and Michelle Obama 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Ms. Harris was on the search for a livable wage. Helen, With the Gold Teeth 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Workers had no rights; they had to make do with casual periods of work, and their wages were pitiful. The People's History Museum provides pieces of a global jigsaw 2010-12-04T10:59:00Z Fair trade produce might be more expensive, however as a result farmers and farm workers receive fairer wages and there is greater transparency throughout the entire supply chain. The true cost of food: High grocery prices are not the root issue 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z Famous for defending Progressive-era wage and hour regulations against laissez-faire judicial ideology, Holmes was himself a firm believer in social Darwinism. The Many Contradictions of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z In August, New York’s City Council moved to institute a moratorium on new vehicles and a minimum wage for Uber and Lyft drivers. Uber and the Ongoing Erasure of Public Life 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z While many are quickly integrating into new countries abroad, many more are struggling to earn a decent wage and are encountering a growing tide of xenophobia. Street-singing Venezuelan migrant gets chance of a lifetime 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z For people in precarious work who are more at risk of food insecurity, missing work could mean losing their job, placing future wages at risk. How food insecurity affects people’s rights to choose whether or not to have children 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Another hurdle can be how undocumented migrants receive their wages, since all payments go to the account holder in the first place. How undocumented migrants find work as substitute couriers in the UK 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z He sings in his raspy growl about the wages of living a wild life, about his experiences in prison and about being shot, and about his sorrow over being an absent father. Dr. John?s New Album ?Locked Down? and BAM Residency 2012-03-29T22:22:02Z I also review curator Nato Thompson’s latest book, “Culture as Weapon: The Art of Influence in Everyday Life,” which looks at how culture is deployed to sell iPhones and wage war. Essential Arts & Culture: What L.A. loses if we lose the NEA; starchitecture in Hamburg; Kerry James Marshall at MOCA 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z When Frase, a better reader of Marx than I could hope to be, uses the term “work” he means wage labor, rather than the Marxian definition of free, productive activity. Karl Marx and the semantics of a “post-work left” 2013-03-02T15:00:00Z Many of the factories that disappeared for ever were "hot, filthy, body-and soul-crushing" but they offered decent wages and a sense of belonging – to a community, a class, a nation – since extirpated. The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer – review 2013-06-17T07:30:01Z “It is a war — a silent war — but it is a war against religious liberty. This war is waged in our courts and in the halls of political power,” Jindal says. Kansas, Arizona and the GOP’s terrible new Jim Crow-style laws 2014-02-26T13:23:00Z They don’t even really work for the companies, so they don’t have any place to go for wage theft or whatever. Jane Fonda Is Paying Close Attention 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z The monthslong battle he led against one of the largest corporations in the world wasn’t waged in a suit and tie or even jeans, as Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos often wears. Christian Smalls Is Leading a Labor Movement in Sweats and Sneakers 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z “Sometimes you get someone saying they are adamantly opposed to minimum wage, and then they’ll say it should be raised,” American Bridge President Brad Woodhouse says in an interview from his D.C. office. Tracking the trackers: What it’s like to have the most mind-numbing job in a campaign They talked about income inequality and living wages, universal health care, North Korea and 2020. Bernie Sanders calls Trump "the worst president in the history of the United States" 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The Ebo sisters were raised in the Southern Baptist tradition in Atlanta, where the movie is set, and the director displays a tart and nuanced understanding of pastoral power and the wages of hypocrisy. ‘Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.’ Review: Resurrecting a Megachurch 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z It is, however, the entire year’s earnings of a parent working full-time at the federal $7.25 minimum wage. The college admissions scandal is just the tip of the inequality iceberg 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z And the war that pop culture wages on the female body should be looked at closely. Skin Deep: Capturing Beauty, With All Its Flaws 2011-05-17T22:52:27Z But the culture of servers is that this is such a novel wage model they don't trust it. "Equity within the whole restaurant": The problem with the tipped wage 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z For 10 years, the Orozco family waged war on frosty pod. The world's biggest chocolate-maker says we're running out of chocolate 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z In Carlo Goldoni’s “The Servant of Two Masters,” staged by Shakespeare & Company here, the oafish Truffaldino attempts to earn two wages and two suppers by waiting on two gentlemen at once. Goldoni’s ‘The Servant of Two Masters,’ in the Country 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z “Let people earn a real wage,” she cautions. Practical Traveler: Is There a Right Way to Spend Money When Traveling? 2011-03-09T15:36:48Z Half the wages went to states like Georgia that offer tax incentives and rebates to the industry. James Bond studio to open 1st US facility in Ga. 2013-04-29T11:26:09Z In stark contrast, most small business owners already pay more than the minimum wage, and a large majority support raising it to $10.10 and indexing it for inflation. Hey, McDonald’s: Not every restaurant treats its employees like dirt 2014-01-31T13:30:00Z The work speaks volumes: the young Mandela about to wage the fight of his life. Seeing Johannesburg Through Artists’ Eyes 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z In this system, according to the “Chain of Greed” report, workers are paid piecework, according to the number of containers or trucks they finish unloading on a shift, instead of an hourly wage. A nation of temps 2012-08-22T21:53:00Z His wages are being garnished by the multibillion dollar company he works for because he falsely confessed to theft. ‘The Good Fight’ Season 1, Episode 2: Minority Status 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z What he actually said: “If you earn minimum wage there — 7.25 an hour — it would take you.” John Oliver’s British accent is breaking YouTube’s closed captioning, apparently 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z By the 1700s, global ambitions were playing out with remarkable speed and force across the province of Quebec: Britain would wage war for seven years to wrest it from the French. At 375, Montreal’s cosmopolitan charm still seduces travelers 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z For me it was not an “inconvenience,” it was a loss of wages that I will not be able to recoup. Work Advice: Stood up? Don’t take it lying down. 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z So, when the Hindu nationalist BJP calls the scene a "disturbing attack on Hinduism" that "wages a war on the Hindu community," that is not at all accurate either. Defending that "Oppenheimer" sex scene as a Hindu woman who delved into my religion's sacred truths 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z Even so, he admitted that, if he had had sufficient resources, a greater portion of workers who filed wage theft claims with his department would have won their cases. The wage theft epidemic 2013-02-20T16:00:00Z The battle for Charlie’s soul has been waged in secret between Bear and Dodd all season, though the boy’s affliction should have Bear believing that God has already ruled in his favor. ‘Fargo’ Season 2, Episode 5: The Butcher of Luverne 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Opponents say it leads to lower wages and poorer quality jobs, and they accused of rushing the bill through to avoid disrupting the Super Bowl. Indiana poised to pass right-to-work measure 2012-02-01T10:30:00Z It’s not that they didn’t want people to make decent wages, but the 35 people their theater employed were mostly high school students in after-school jobs. ‘I feel like this is the last shot’: A Kentucky family greets the Trump era 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Does anyone still need that allegory, between the reality of their frozen wages—assuming one’s lucky enough to have a job—and their climbing grocery/fuel/healthcare bills? The Queen of Versailles: How the Biggest House in America Became a Brokedown Palace 2012-07-19T12:00:40Z Stanley wages a grouchy, sarcastic war on her credibility, only to find himself smitten by her gamin charm and persuaded by her claims of paranormal ability. ‘Magic in the Moonlight’: Another Woody Allen Odd Couple 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Despite his credentials, Slater, 68, called the wage differential between lower-paid jobs and jobs like his former one “ridiculous.” ‘I like giving the gift of time’: Time banks build economies — and communities — without the almighty dollar 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z The choice was also something of a surprise: Mr. Dildine was not a veteran of the friendly but hard-fought Berkshire theater wars, waged by companies like Williamstown Theater Festival, Barrington Stage and Berkshire Theater Group. Shakespeare & Company Caught in Its Own Drama 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z Here’s a topic: Does the president have a constitutional right to wage a long-term military campaign against the Islamic State? Spare Times for March 27-April 2 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z This story of wage stagflation and the working poor is just as applicable in Britain. Low-paid Britain: 'People have had enough. It's soul destroying' 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z Conclusion: Some elites might be willing to raise the minimum wage just a bit. Global elites deeply anxious about income inequality, refuse to fix it 2013-12-05T13:00:00Z As one of Bitov’s characters puts it, time “wages war on time before our very eyes.” Review: ‘The Symmetry Teacher’ by Andrei Bitov Earlier, she makes the point that Clinton’s refusal to back the $15 minimum wage, “tells you she’s not a feminist, when 50% of the households in America are headed by women.” Susan Sarandon: ‘I thought Hillary was very dangerous. If she'd won, we'd be at war’ 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z Reed also waged long legal battles with other artists who performed and recorded under the name the Platters. Platters founder Herb Reed dies at 83 2012-06-05T17:46:04Z A decade ago, I was part of a teenage cohort working for minimum wage at a small cinema in Cornwall. Puke, pasties and poo: the secret, stinky world of cinema ushers 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z US President Barack Obama is slated to push his proposal for a minimum wage increase again Wednesday, this time before a group of governors meeting in Connecticut. 9 countries that pay a higher minimum wage than the US 2014-03-06T12:50:00Z No doubt that’s why director Sheila Daniels has given a contemporary setting to this raucous tale of women waging a sex strike to keep their husbands out of battle. A&E highlights: Arts in Bellevue, Randy Newman at the zoo 2013-07-19T16:29:11Z Over dinner, the lawyer recounted to her that he advised the field bosses to stop charging the workers a huge fraction of their hourly wages for water. Dolores Huerta’s ‘One Life’ at the Portrait Gallery: Yes she could 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Though the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, the government’s minimum cash wage for tipped workers is $2.13 an hour, as long as they get at least $7.25 an hour total. Hooters server reveals how much she makes in tips in TikTok video 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z But what about the supportive scenario, an across-the-board increase in farmworker wages? Perspective | Illegal immigrants help fuel U.S. farms. Does affordable produce depend on them? 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z “Mr. Nugget,” he adds, is “still working in the basement for regular wage,” thinking of ways “to make the fries taste better.” ‘The Wire’ Stands Alone 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z And like theologians after the catastrophic 18th-century Lisbon earthquake, who saw the wages of sin in the disaster, many intellectuals didn’t wait long to assert that this blowback was payback. Critic?s Notebook: 9/11 Memorials: Many Perspectives, Few Answers 2011-09-02T23:58:41Z I should’ve been part of a campaign for rent control and higher wages.” Boots Riley: how the outspoken musician is taking on Hollywood 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z Many find themselves subject to below-minimum wage or overtime violations, hazardous work conditions or discrimination based on age, disability or family responsibilities. 10 shameful ways the United States is failing to preserve basic human rights 2014-03-18T11:50:00Z The line is delivered an angry coup de grace in a 10-day war white bigoted neighbors wage upon the Emorys, a Black family recently arrived from the South. Scare goes the neighborhood in Amazon's "Them," where trauma porn collides with our visceral reality 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z This report represents a significant beacon, shedding light on that strategy, the battlefield it’s waged on, and the kinds of long-term responses needed to counter-organize against it. This is the religious right’s radical new plan: The very real efforts to create an American theocracy in plain sight 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z These killings were not in the context of war over contested terrain; they often took precedence over the very waging of war. Critic?s Notebook: Making the Holocaust the Lesson on All Evils 2011-04-29T23:11:04Z Leading up to the resolution, unresolved issues dragged out negotiations, including disagreements over staffing levels, wages and overtime pay. Kennedy Center stagehands reach agreement with the performing arts venue, sparing ‘Hadestown’ from cancellation 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z If there's a custody battle being waged across popular culture, the men are fighting back – by, er, fighting. Stolen: Why all the father-daughter action films? 2013-03-21T19:31:01Z Industry drove huge changes in lifestyle and demography, building up cities and hollowing them out after the capitalist management class moved jobs to places where they could pay lower wages. Review | Some cars are more seductive than art. Should they be included in art museums? 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z An example would be the minimum wage today. Christopher Meloni on His 'More Wolf Than Human' Slave Catcher in 'Underground' 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z In 2010, when the play is set, that’s just 25 cents above the federal minimum wage, yet he accepts it willingly. Review: Rude T-Shirts and Rude Awakenings in ‘A Bright New Boise’ 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Writers often write for a pittance, far less than minimum wage when the hours of work are figured in. Art doesn’t pay 2012-09-30T14:00:00Z But online isn’t the only place activists are waging war against terrorism. Trevor Noah mocks Fox News, Geraldo Rivera for insane idea that ISIS is taking over Amazon drones 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z The service charge is a solution, he said, and additional tipping “gets these servers closer to that livable wage.” The Restaurant Service Charge Isn’t Going Anywhere 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Don Draper and company fought tooth and nail — and waged office politics — to sell us flattering and illusory ideas about cigarettes and hamburgers and air travel. ‘Halt and Catch Fire’: Suffering from some faulty code The hiring crisis has prompted many restaurants to raise wages: Pay for hourly workers in leisure and hospitality jumped 13 percent to an average of $16.60 in August, from $14.72 a year ago. How to Make an Unloved Job More Attractive? Restaurants Tinker With Wages. 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z If the hard numbers were out there for everyone to see, perhaps the gender wage gap — and Jenji Kohan — wouldn’t be so easy to dismiss. Matthew Weiner Is Wrong. The Gender Wage Gap Is Real, Even In Hollywood 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z This is due to the low wages and long hours at the start of one’s career, as well as those seeking to be parents. Female Architects Speak Out on Sexism, Equal Pay and More 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Even though the taxi workers won major concessions, the drivers’ raises only brought their wages back to where they were, adjusted for inflation, following their last sizable raise in 2004. Will “alt-labor” replace unions? 2013-01-29T20:45:00Z The order no longer wages war, focusing instead on caring for the sick and poor. Beneath Malta’s Beauty, a Tangled History 2013-12-06T18:20:39Z You see the collision of a stagnating wage market with a rising house market during a moment of low interest rates. Class decides everything 2012-06-24T16:00:00Z The wages of celebrity are being assessed all over this city in productions that should give weighty pause to those who would be stars. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Punished By Fame 2011-02-25T16:44:55Z Hartman’s story started in 2014, when she waged a virtual assault on San Francisco international airport, where she attempted to sneak onto half a dozen planes over the course of several months. 'Serial stowaway': how does a 66-year-old woman keep sneaking on to flights? 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z But many Greeks believe their living standards are collapsing already and the new measures, which include a 22 percent cut in the minimum wage, will deepen their torment. Greek protesters hurl Molotov cocktails 2012-02-12T19:28:00Z Hollywood’s gender wage gap has attracted much attention in the past several years, with actors like Jennifer Lawrence advocating equal pay for male and female performers. Off-Key, but on Point 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Pioneering social historians had been studying working people since the early 20th century, but the focus remained squarely on the tangible, the measurable, the "significant" – wages, living conditions, unions, strikes, Chartists. EP Thompson: the unconventional historian 2013-03-06T15:05:11Z "The programme might be filmed in Scotland using local runners, electricians, make-up artists etc. who are paid and then will spend their wages in Scotland to the benefit of the Scottish economy." BBC 'boosts UK economy by £8bn' 2013-01-16T16:26:12Z Governments have long waged a war on cash in an attempt to curb terrorism and tax evasion. The penny may be worthless, but let’s keep it anyway 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z The daily wage was a penny or two. Means of exchange 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z “Unlike servers, who are often paid less than minimum wage that is then made up by tips, hotel housekeepers’ pay is not contingent upon tips. A Traveler’s Guide to Tipping in a Changed World 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Workers have been so hard to find, even after the restaurant raised wages, that the owners had to call in relatives from across the country to help. Back to Normal? It’s a Tall Order as New York City Restaurants Struggle. 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z Whiteness may pay a psychological wage, but even for poor whites they receive material advantages compared to nonwhites. Roots of white rage: America’s clash of class and race, from the Civil War to the rise of Trump 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z There I’d be, prancing around the stage in a leotard, fishnet stockings and high heels, singing about the “wages of sin” while in real life I had never even been kissed. Modern Love: He’s Playing Our Song 2012-09-21T22:26:05Z Lower wages attract less qualified and committed employees. Michigan’s failed effort to privatize prison kitchens and the future of institutional food 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z "It seemed abusive," she said, but "sometimes the families wanted them to work. They wanted income. Everything counted. And sometimes the boys were proud they were getting wages." Julia Wolfe's Pulitzer-winning 'Anthracite Fields' makes its West Coast debut at Disney Hall 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Other countries, including the United States, Mexico, the United Kingdom and Australia, are working towards ending the wage gap but aren’t quite there yet. Iceland becomes first country to make equal pay mandatory 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Assistants’ wages, she says, have decreased in the last 10 years, with many working for just $12 an hour, the minimum wage in California. #PayUpHollywood: behind the fight for better treatment at the bottom 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z He said he believed that “supporters of a criminal war waged by a dictator and a mass murderer should have no place on the concert stages of the civilized world.” Too Close to Putin? Institutions Vet Artists, Uncomfortably. 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z I did try bar work for a while, but it was 12-hour shifts for slightly less than the minimum wage, so I soon went back to cam work. What I’m really thinking: the cam girl 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z Attractive people have been found to get better wages and shorter prison sentences, for instance. Perspective | Why does Hollywood keep equating beauty with virtue? 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z And I see in Lee a traitor who waged war against the United States in defense of the indefensible, slavery. We Need to Move, Not Destroy, Confederate Monuments 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z The result was slower wage growth for most households. We’ve been brainwashed 2012-06-14T17:21:00Z Thanks to this rare distinction, with wages to match, he became one of the town's most prosperous citizens. Cranach and His Time ? review 2011-03-08T13:59:01Z Wealthy citizens accused the slum-dwellers of making the city filthy and unliveable, even as an oversupply of human capital kept the wages of their maids and chauffeurs low. The Guardian first book award: the shortlisted authors introduce their work 2012-11-09T22:50:02Z In the 15th century the Erzgebirge was the most important source of silver in Europe — but mining wages were so meager, many workers supplemented their incomes with farming or woodworking. Dreaming of an Artisanal Christmas 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z The same holds for the second-hand thought offered a moment later, “They say low wages are reality.” Bob Dylan in Trumpland: The workingman in "Modern Times" 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z Grégoire Chamayou’s “A Theory of the Drone” looks at drones from a philosophical standpoint, considering technology, history, epistemology, ethics and the problems of waging asymmetrical war. What to Do This Weekend 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The poets, all white, wrote of pumphandles and snow geese, never of low wages or police shootings, never of the global events of the era — of apartheid in South Africa, famine in Ethiopia. A Monumental and Rapturous New Anthology of Black American Poetry 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z He said the low minimum wage helps smaller operators to defer labor costs and get their businesses off the ground. We asked bartenders to talk about a topic they traditionally avoid at work: politics. 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z He wages war, but doesn't know why he's sending his men off to die; he doesn't listen to his own officers, instead insisting they follow his dumb plans. "The Great" is the cheeky post-enlightment balm we've been waiting for 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z U.S. submarines played a critical role in sinking 1,113 Japanese merchant ships and 201 warships, starving Japanese troops and industry of what they needed to wage war. ‘The War Below:’ subs’ role in WWII’s U.S.-Japan conflict 2013-08-24T15:12:17Z The trend coincides with a decrease in real wages and what she calls the “de-professionalization” of some jobs. Tips are being solicited more than ever, and travelers are prime targets 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z It’s long been known that female elephants cooperate, but before ethologists began systematically studying free-roaming horses, few people suspected that cooperating mares were capable not only of waging such a fight—but of winning it. The secret lives of horses: Why they’re more like humans than you’d ever imagine 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z There is no such thing as "the veteran experience," particularly in a war on terror waged across multiple countries for more than 10 years. Veterans' new fiction adds needed perspective on war zones 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z There was the agony of Sam’s fight to live, which he waged with grace and courage. Modern Love: The Race Grows Sweeter Near Its Final Lap — Modern Love 2013-01-24T19:53:37Z For example, after filming the pilot episode in L.A., producers of the L.A.-based show "Graceland" took the USA series to Florida, representing a loss of $10.2 million in wages. New York surpasses L.A. in TV pilots 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Murphy senses, probably correctly, that their preoccupation with the status of their vehicles is a kind of anxious compensation for low wages. ‘The Long Haul’ Is a Trucker’s Slangy Tour of the Road 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z In fact, if you adjust for inflation, the median hourly wages of men aged 25 to 34 are a fifth less than they were in 1980. Why a Quarter of Millennials Will Never Get Married 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z There were also practical concerns: He was earning $210,000 a year, he said, but he was 50 years old, had a family and could scarcely afford to leave his wages behind. With ‘Gunfight,’ an Insider Takes On a Community That Was Once His Own 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Tasmania is in a state of war between what Billy calls “white fella” and “black fella,” a conflict waged without mercy or morality. ‘The Nightingale’ Review: A Song of Violence and Vengeance 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z At the very least, the War on Christmas is not being waged on television. Christmas Shows Are TV’s December Comfort Food 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z The Minnesota Orchestra in Minneapolis locked out its players in October after it failed to reach a deal with the musicians union over wage cuts, leading to performances being canceled through April 7. Striking San Francisco Symphony cancels second show as talks resume 2013-03-15T19:38:48Z The strike began on Wednesday after contract talks deadlocked over disagreement on wages and benefits. Striking San Francisco Symphony cancels second show as talks resume 2013-03-15T19:38:48Z He is not paid a living wage for his work as a clown. "Joker": A harsh indictment of neoliberalism and gangster capitalism 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z They also pull poor whites into their political parties and say, "Look, we share the same class interests. We should be arguing for the same things, the same wage protections, the same labor protections." Roots of white rage: America’s clash of class and race, from the Civil War to the rise of Trump 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z An unusually public battle is being waged between Amazon and one of America's top five publishers, Hachette. Amazon and Hachette: The dispute in 13 easy steps 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z Let’s assume your young colleague is earning a living wage to get us all over the hurdle of poverty-induced hunger. The Drink That Stands Between Recovery and Relapse 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z I knew that this was a battle I had to wage with a smile, never complaining, never whining. A Conductor’s Battle With a Classical Music Gender Barrier 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z News has just broken that national leaders of the Actors' Equity Assn. imposed a $9 hourly minimum wage for members who perform in Los Angeles County theaters with fewer than 100 seats. At Road Theatre Company, how the Equity-mandated minimum wage might play out 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z This is about two extraordinary women who waged a battle for survival, with neither time nor energy left for politics. This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood by Alan Johnson – review 2013-05-02T13:00:01Z Lillian Hellman’s “Days to Come” begins with domestic conspiracy in an expensively appointed living room — one servant firmly coaxing another to hand over her wages because, she says, “The boys need it.” Review: A Sprawling ‘Days to Come’ Has Everything Except Central Figures 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z Since the war was waged in the TV era, the filmmakers rely less exclusively on the trademark “Ken Burns effect” pans over still images. Review: Ken Burns’s ‘Vietnam War’ Will Break Your Heart and Win Your Mind 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z While waging their legal fight, Spletstoser and Solomon have been engaged in a parallel battle over records, including emails and investigation testimony, they say the Air Force and Defense Department refuse to provide. Retired Col. Kathy Spletstoser wasn’t able to stop Joint Chiefs vice chairman Gen. John Hyten from being confirmed. But she’s not done with him. 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z And she was a major factor in the Department of Labor's recent decision to extend federal minimum wage and overtime protections to those who care for the disabled and elderly. Meet MacArthur's new 'genius grant' winners 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z In one lawsuit filed last week, two former interns who worked at W Magazine and The New Yorker sued parent company Conde Nast Publications for allegedly failing to pay them the minimum wage. Warner, Atlantic sued over unpaid internships 2013-06-17T23:19:07Z Among the conspiracy theories they cited as prevalent among Greeks: European bankers and policymakers are using Greece as an "experiment" to see how far they can drive down wages and pensions before the population snaps. Greek crisis: An odyssey seen through ancient myth 2012-06-24T11:41:12Z The goal is to create a sustainable business that allows her to, among other things, offer her employees respectable wages and health insurance. On the Cajun Coast, a Chef Grapples With Threats to a Seafood Tradition 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z It's a largely accurate portrayal of a profession where jobs that pay a livable wage are growing scarcer by the year. 'Mozart in the Jungle': What it gets right and wrong about classical music 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z The sector supports 5.1 million wage and salary jobs, according to the U.S. A ‘Great Cultural Depression’ Looms for Legions of Unemployed Performers 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z He has also promised, at least rhetorically, to wage war on finance. “The Intouchables”: Racial comedy, French style 2012-05-22T20:45:00Z By contrast, last year Amazon raised its pay to $15 an hour and started lobbying in favor of minimum wage increases. McDonald’s ends its war against higher salaries, so what does that mean for the minimum wage? 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z The newest battle against HIV/AIDS stigma is being waged in blood and ink. Magazine prints entire issue with HIV-positive blood to combat stigma 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Unable to earn a decent wage, Maya's mother enrolled in Columbia Business School in New York to get an MBA. Maya Forbes recalls her loving, troubled father in 'Infinitely Polar Bear' 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z There are large corporations who employ people on minimal wages in south east Asia in difficult conditions and we are buying these goods all the time. Should you feel guilty owning Rolf's art? 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z The American banking industry has left behind a large proportion of the United States, forcing people who earn low wages to rely on payday lenders, check-cashing vendors and other types of predators. Paperback Row 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z But the practice persisted in restaurants, and was even excluded when Franklin Roosevelt signed the nation's first minimum wage into law in 1938. "Equity within the whole restaurant": The problem with the tipped wage 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z “It wasn’t just the criminal war in Southeast Asia that he was waging but his vile character that aroused the wicked impulse to satire.” Philip Guston and His Barbed-Pen Nixon Years 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z That we can advance the country: Workers are going to be respected and paid a good wage, and businesses can still be very successful. Marty Walsh: ‘I have a president and a vice president who really believe in the mission of the Department of Labor’ 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z Dear Heloise: More restaurants are now becoming self-service as demands for higher wages force restaurants to change the way they serve the public. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: A simple family recipe to dress greens 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z “If fundraising for salaries was easy, more museums would be paying better wages.” Donors rescind $50 million in gifts over Baltimore museum’s planned sale of Warhol painting 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z The main problem is his low wage.His research shows that a one-bedroom flat in the area costs between £900 and £1,000; a studio flat is also beyond their budget. Landlords have a new solution to the housing shortage – live in a garage 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z About 100 of the orchestra’s musicians have been on strike since March 11, at odds with orchestra officials over pension and wage issues. Chicago Symphony musicians’ strike over wages, pension 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z But using league revenue, economics professor Dave Berri was recently able to calculate a significant gender wage gap in another respect. The case for boosting WNBA player salaries 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z She’s glad that the discussion about Hollywood’s wage gap has moved into a public sphere: “It’s not being held by women!” Meryl Streep on Guns, the Wage Gap and How She Picks a Role 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z While several states and cities have already set rates nearing this, campaigners such as Fight for $15 want a living, not a minimum, wage to be paid. Dan Price: the CEO who took a pay cut to give his staff a $70k minimum wage 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Pay a living wage with affordable benefits to EVERYONE. A Worker Shortage Is Forcing Restaurants to Get Creative 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Later parts of the book outline how the buildup of C.I.A. secret forces and these private contractors have dimmed public awareness of how and when war is waged. Books of The Times: ?Drift? by Rachel Maddow of MSNBC Traces American Militarism 2012-03-28T22:36:04Z The biggest takeaways from Abramason’s talk are that investors are very interested in the new startup, journalists will be paid a living wage, and there will be “one big story a year.” Jill Abramson confronts David Carr for dismissing NYT sexism: “That’s ridiculous!” 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z “In this country, people are paid ridiculously low wages,” said Ms. Vimont. Counter Service Tipping: Who Gives? 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z Vladimir Putin's Russia is waging war on the Ukrainian people. Ti West on anyone walking out of his slasher film "X": "What did you think you were signing up for?" 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z Everywhere in this city of high prices and low wages, people are hustling for kickbacks and bribes. ‘Every Day is for the Thief:’ back home in tumultuous Lagos 2014-03-20T21:15:07Z In 1912, coal miners went on a national strike for the first time, hoping to secure a minimum wage and highlighting how miserable life was for many working-class people. ‘Downton Abbey’ and the History of Difficult Royal Visits 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z In effect, Russia is helping fund the country against which it is waging war. How a D.C. lobbyist tried to stop Putin’s pipeline before war started 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z The battles she has chosen to wage, however, can backfire. Kathy Griffin Is Trying to Get Back on the D-List 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z It's why he wages his own one-man war in the cinema against boredom: you can experience many things watching his films, but you will never complain of longueurs. What Danny Boyle did next 2010-12-05T00:04:00Z Debate over the proposed wage hike has been intense since February, when union leaders announced that change was on the table. L.A. actors send union strong message against enacting pay hike 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Tipping has always been a vital source of income for workers in historically tipped services, like restaurants, where the tipped minimum wage can be as low as US$2.13 an hour. Tipping etiquette and norms are in flux − here’s how you can avoid feeling flustered or ripped off 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z “To be clear, the casting directors are not attempting to ‘fix prices,’ neither in wages nor benefit contributions,” Mr. O’Donnell said. Theater Producers Accuse Casting Directors of Forming Illegal Cartel 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z These are the deranged devotees of a supposed government agent who they believe is waging war against the “deep state” that threatens the Trump presidency. Perspective | As the bizarre QAnon group emerges, Trump rallies go from nasty to dangerous 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Bush’s flair for compromise enabled him to work with a Democratic Congress: He passed environmental legislation, increased the minimum wage and signed the Americans With Disabilities Act into law. Review: In ‘Destiny and Power,’ George H.W. Bush Epitomizes a Vanishing G.O.P. 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z A temporary payroll tax cut that has been of benefit to nearly every wage earner in 2011 and 2012 is set to expire, costing the average family an additional $1,000 a year. FDA approves diet pill 2012-06-27T17:50:00Z But Clark waged the battle of his life when he lost the private health insurance that paid for his meticulous care. Friends remember Rocky Clark 2012-01-14T21:08:00Z In the sixth year of the nation’s economic recovery, wages have yet to rise significantly. A sampling of editorials from around New York 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z The Trump administration has dedicated a lot of energy to barring Syrian refugees like Abdulraheem from coming into the country, while waging a multifront campaign against undocumented immigrants from Latin America. In praise of refugee chefs: They came from Syria, but they represent an American ideal 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Ms. Buckley’s show is a witty, powerfully sung female occupation of male territory, waged with good humor and gusto. Music Review: Betty Buckley at Feinstein?s - Review 2011-10-06T19:55:50Z That remains to be seen, but at least into February, the company is promising to match the average wage by position from the same time last year. Danny Meyer’s Team Faces a No-Tipping World 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z What if they've already received a free education, but are still struggling due to unfair wages, unfair hiring practices, or because they have to carry a number of family members who weren’t as fortunate? Reparations are overdue: "Confronting the truth" about slavery means paying for it 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z In his State of the Union Address, President Obama urged that the federal minimum wage be raised to $9 an hour. The glamorous life of a whistleblower: Working a dead-end job for minimum wage 2014-04-25T12:15:00Z How else would we in our own homes adequately stoke the battle between good and evil waged on Eternia? He-Man: Most powerful Gen X unifier in the universe 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z Readers gradually discover that Grant Allen’s thief Colonel Clay is waging a war against Gilded Age hubris as much as replenishing his own coffers. Perspective | With ‘Lupin,’ Netflix created a series worthy of Maurice Leblanc’s enduringly popular gentleman thief 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z You cannot do that by waging a war of words against them. How to pull a friend out of the conspiracy theory rabbit hole 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z For them, evolution into superherodom is an escape from the mundanity of wage labor, and provides them a means to leave "real" labor behind them. The labor laws of the superhero universe amount to disturbing propaganda 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z I might look like a wage slave, but I’m a hippie at heart.’ Trading Up: Bohemian Wrist Tangles, Also Known as ?Kanye Bracelets,? Trend, Rising Even Among Bankers 2012-02-22T20:57:37Z The president is right that it’s time for a change, but what’s needed is far more than a minimalist nudge to the minimum wage. The glamorous life of a whistleblower: Working a dead-end job for minimum wage 2014-04-25T12:15:00Z The victims of nonpayment of owed wages—referred to as “wage theft”—are most frequently workers at the bottom of the income scale. The wage theft epidemic 2013-02-20T16:00:00Z Previously, it matched up to 5 percent of eligible wages for a maximum match of 2.5 percent. Journal Communications to freeze pension plans 2010-10-15T01:02:00Z In general, such laws bar discrimination based on age in hiring, promotions, wages, termination of employment, layoffs and benefits. BBC case fuels debate on changing the face of TV 2011-02-09T12:13:09Z Already there have been indications that Bannon’s former organization might enjoy something akin to most-favored media status, even as the White House wages avery public verbal war with mainstream media outlets. Bannon molded Breitbart into a far-right sledgehammer. How it will be wielded in the Trump era? 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Every dream was mine but not any more – now I earn less than the national minimum wage. HarperCollins sued by former death row prisoner over ditched book 2013-03-12T14:13:51Z So far, the family has raised more than $10,600 and they say the money will be used for attorney fees and lost wages. Subway employee says she's suspended after fighting off robber 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z For her best-selling 2001 book Nickel and Dimed, she went undercover for three months, working in cleaning, waitressing and retail jobs to experience the difficulties of life on a minimum wage. When do you know you're old enough to die? Barbara Ehrenreich has some answers 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z Some diners said that tips allow business owners to deflect the responsibility for paying a living wage. To Tip, or Not to Tip? 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z The last time Chicago symphony musicians went on strike was in September 2012 for two days over wages and health care costs. Chicago Symphony musicians’ strike over wages, pension 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Minimum wage laws, for instance, were passed on the condition, set forth by members of Congress from the South, that they exclude occupations like agriculture or housekeeping, jobs held predominantly by blacks at the time. Deep Thinking on Affirmative Action 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z Hussman, who is White, said he objected to Hannah-Jones’s assertion in her 1619 Project essay that American colonists waged the Revolutionary War to preserve slavery, a statement that the Times later clarified. One of the voices objecting to Nikole Hannah-Jones’s hiring at UNC: A newspaper baron — and major donor 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z "You start caring, you'll end up like me, working minimum wage on a ferry." AMC's 'The Killing': back to life for season 3 2013-05-08T14:22:09Z The cutbacks are the latest in a series of reductions since 2009, when the company implemented wage freezes and furloughs, reduced numbers of performances and eliminated positions. Seattle Opera board anticipating shortfall, cuts to next season 2012-06-27T01:29:38Z In lots of fields such salaries would barely be considered living wages for young professionals of comparable accomplishment. Four Guys Named JACK 2010-09-03T15:19:00Z When Duplass waged a one-man awards campaign for Romano last fall, it was seen as a bit of savvy publicity for a film that debuted on Netflix to little fanfare last February. My streaming gem: why you should watch Paddleton 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z That dispute is the origin of the Fair Food Program, a voluntary initiative to raise wages and working conditions for farmworkers. 'Food Chains' Doc Sheds Light on America's Farmworkers 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum noted that Republican congressmen had waged " a conservative revolution against him when he was speaker of the House," referring to a failed coup attempt against Gingrich's leadership in 1997. Gingrich, Romney set sights on Obama 2011-12-16T06:10:00Z María: Many household workers suffer from wage theft and not being paid minimum wage. Meet the L.A. household worker taking on the toxic cleaning industry 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z A deeply able singer with a penchant for overemoting and high anxiety, she detailed the wages of torturous love as well as anyone around. The Week Ahead: Sept. 9 — 15 2012-09-09T07:00:07Z Thus dispossessed, these people were at the mercy of mine owners for sustenance, sent daily for pitiful wages into sphincters of the earth. The Story of Appalachia, With Plenty of Villains 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Only about 4% of GM’s 48,500 hourly workers are currently paid the lower wage. The Secret To Lower Labor Costs At GM 2011-09-20T21:16:18Z "We continuously evaluate employee compensation and benefits packages. Our average hourly wage is $15 and with benefits factored in, like health care, the hourly wage is over $20." Kroger still plans to slash employees' "hero pay" after another grocery worker dies of coronavirus 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z Just as concrete numbers have helped illustrate the wage gap, Judd is hoping they can offer a similar boost to the fight against online harassment. Ashley Judd on How to Put an End to Online Gender Violence 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z In Horace's poem, the speaker implores Venus to wage no further erotic wars on him. Poem of the week: Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson 2011-03-14T11:48:11Z He sings the orchard bit from the hypothetical perspective of an orchard owner, not employee, and the character might be picking fruit for some personal reason other than earning a wage. Labor watch: Fleet Foxes versus The Head and the Heart 2011-02-01T20:32:06Z Marissa can buy whatever she needs to succeed, but this isn't an option for 99% of working women on normal wages. Do Marissa Mayer's maternity plans make her a fit role model for women? 2012-07-21T23:05:56Z Guards at the Seattle Art Museum only announced in January their intention to create a collective bargaining unit to pursue higher wages, better benefits and improved safety protocols. After MoMA Stabbings, Museums Review Their Safety Protocols 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z The psychological wage is what they accumulate, is what they’re paid in, it’s the coin of the realm of white supremacy. Michael Eric Dyson: Donald Trump is “what black people have warned America about” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z These are familiar issues in the UK, where the hourly minimum wage, introduced in 1999, stands at £6.70 for those over 21. Dan Price: the CEO who took a pay cut to give his staff a $70k minimum wage 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z But the unfortunate reality is bleak, with low wages, long hours and high stress levels. Social Q?s: When Bakers Go Bad ? Social Q?s 2011-09-29T19:05:50Z The waiters rightly take pride in their work and the diners are paying their wages. The secrets of a maitre d’: what it’s really like feeding the 1% 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z It gave an insight into the ways the owners think about wages and strikes, and also what the workers think about their situation in life which causes them to strike. Tips, links and suggestions: Our review list and the books you are reading 2012-08-02T08:58:37Z Take the typical forty-year-old male worker with a high school education: today his hourly wage is 8 percent lower than his father’s was in 1980, adjusted for inflation. What gets declassified? 2012-05-31T21:09:00Z Hampton’s replacement has been assigned to also help with child labor investigations, leaving the wage-and-hour unit without a single dedicated wage theft investigator. The wage theft epidemic 2013-02-20T16:00:00Z In terms of popular Internet culture, it's a war of the titans, waged over a deceased house pet with apparent piano skills. Keyboard Cat owner claws Threadless 2011-06-30T23:38:00Z And when both of her men are down, she brings them to the table not to broker peace, but to join forces and wage war. Smart Watch: "Billions" makes organized crime on Wall Street and in politics fun to watch 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z Now we are seeing how a race to the bottom on wages is being removed, wages have to right themselves and trained American workers of all stripes get the jobs at a decent wage. A Worker Shortage Is Forcing Restaurants to Get Creative 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z This gives activists much greater leverage to demand oversight, wage increases, organizing rights and effective safety standards. Sweatshops still make your clothes 2013-03-21T15:36:00Z The battle being waged isn’t just between Eddie and May, but between them and their father’s ghost. Nina Arianda and Sam Rockwell Star in ‘Fool for Love’ 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Clearly, the “clarification” process that she’s involved in — explaining why workers should accept increased food costs, even as their wages fall — “didn’t clarify far enough,” she says. ‘Dear Comrades!’ Review: When the Party Line Becomes a Tightrope 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z For while the threat of danger to herself has certainly evaporated, the responsibility of making life and death choices while waging war from an emotional distance begins to unsettle and unnerve her. Anne Hathaway’s Solo Turn as a Fighter Pilot in ‘Grounded’ at the Public Theater 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z One recent morning, Sheikh woke up at 5:30 to gigs whose wages teased incrementally higher amounts, and he beat himself up for not letting them take over his day off. Apps have turned restaurant work into a gig-economy hustle. Here’s how one cook chases a paycheck. 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Those tracking Polish migration say that the outward flow will not be reversed as long as wages are significantly higher in other parts of Europe. Poland counts the cost of losing millions of its workers 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z “I typically work for my age in wages,” Ms. Alvin said. In the Garden: Thea Alvin on Life With Pebbles and Bam Bam 2013-07-17T23:02:03Z The Qataris required the project to adhere to sharia law, a potential public relations nightmare given that Washington was waging wars in two Islamic countries. D.C. got everything it wanted out of CityCenterDC — except the crowds 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z So, they have lower wages, if they have wages at all; they have high housing cost; and, in the advanced countries, there are ever more demanding credential races to qualify for professional employment. Class decides everything 2012-06-24T16:00:00Z You are an artist and the year is 1789; a baguette costs almost a day’s wages, though you can always eat cake. The Dangerous Beauty of Jacques-Louis David 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z The money is by no means a livable wage. Paid by the laugh 2011-06-14T21:20:00Z In Canada, agricultural sector wages are below the average, with weekly earnings about 21% less than other sectors. The true cost of food: High grocery prices are not the root issue 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z Shillong is in a troubled region hit by a separatist insurgency waged by various groups, and Dylan's words against war resonate with many local inhabitants. Bob Dylan mania in India's northeast 2010-05-26T14:17:00Z What Mr. van Hove and his adapters have done is to strip the texts down to their political marrow, concentrating on the dynamics of waging war and other, more devious modes of power seeking. Review: Shakespeare’s Take on the Game of Thrones 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Hourly wages were dropping, the stock market was rising, taxes for the rich were falling, public housing was not a priority anymore, and in-your-face tract mansions were sprouting everywhere. Let them eat McMansions! The 1 percent, income inequality, and new-fashioned American excess 2014-04-13T11:00:00Z Or would you focus on the things that were part of his proposed agenda, like women’s wages and workplace policies? Motherlode Blog: ‘Big Block of Cheese’ Day: The White House Offers a Chance to Ask Questions 2014-01-29T17:55:49Z Pope Francis opened a global Roman Catholic assembly on Sunday showing his apparent irritation with Church leaders who have waged a sometimes bitter public battle between progressives and conservatives on family issues. Pope opens synod with call for bishops to stop in-fighting 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z Despite corporate America telling us that raising wages will kill jobs, these restaurants are extraordinarily successful. Hey, McDonald’s: Not every restaurant treats its employees like dirt 2014-01-31T13:30:00Z I have to say I waged my own battle against Easy A; its assurance rankled me. Easy A: We Heart Emma Stone 2010-09-17T17:35:00Z The intelligence community warns of multiple foreign bad actors waging election malfeasance, not so much a matter of if but who and how. ‘I’ve been crying for a few days’: How voting became the latest of 2020’s many anxieties 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z She told Ekho Moskvy radio station that a defamation campaign was being waged against her and others, a campaign that accused her of joining the protests in exchange for alcohol and money from radical organizations. Russian Director's Power Play 2010-12-28T15:00:03Z The profits had to be off-set against the cast's stellar wages, though. Looking back at Friends 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z A liberal who enjoys spending time with the man who waged an illegal war in Iraq? Why I can still be best friends with someone whose politics I despise 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z He was one of more than twenty-six thousand Palestinians who worked in the settlements, about one third of them illegally and most for less than the Israeli minimum wage of $6.55 per hour. “When the occupation is over, then I’ll allow myself to dream” 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z Gibson, whose career includes the smash hit "Lethal Weapon" movies and Academy Award winner "Braveheart," has waged a bitter custody battle for almost a year with Grigorieva over their infant daughter, Lucia. Mel Gibson gets probation for domestic violence 2011-03-12T00:17:44Z Before the film's launch, the production company waged a strong anti-piracy campaign to prevent illegal copies from reaching the internet. Gritty police film a hit in Brazil 2010-12-14T09:19:34Z They often work in low wage jobs with many job hazards — and employers must provide these workers with a safe workplace.” When workers die: “And nobody called 911″ 2013-03-27T00:00:00Z Because of the perceived futility of the culture war the right is waging, it's perhaps easy to dismiss Kid Rock's video as laughable. "The groomer of beers": Conservatives vow to boycott Bud Light over partnership with trans activist 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Certainly in politics – interns are mostly from middle and upper classes, because those wages are going, and I presume that's true in most industries. David Morrissey: 'Acting gave me a life' 2012-11-09T17:00:01Z This seems preferable to waging a turf war over your checkbook. Social Q’s: Hello, Dear ‘Friend’? 2013-04-18T18:51:42Z Carnegie, then the richest man in the world, was criticised in his day for distributing his unprecedented largesse because his fortune was built on ruthless tactics such as cutting the wages of his steel-workers. How philanthropy benefits the super-rich 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Follow the Costco method: Pay a living wage, benefits, health insurance, and paid holidays. A Worker Shortage Is Forcing Restaurants to Get Creative 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z What the average American needs is not habit-lists and inner switches but a living wage and affordable housing. Review | Can a new self-help book cure procrastination? I tried it and here’s what I found. 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z It costs the tollway less to pay the agency's money truck drivers overtime than it would to hire more full-time drivers and pay them wages and benefits, Lafleur said. Overtime a windfall for many at Illinois Tollway 2012-03-22T12:33:00Z Though some states have higher minimum cash wages for tipped workers, South Carolina has the federal standard of $2.13 an hour for tipped employees. Hooters server reveals how much she makes in tips in TikTok video 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z There are, of course, social and political histories behind all of this art, histories of wars waged, of ideologies promoted and suppressed. What Museums Don’t Reveal About Religious Art 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z If a writer waging a write-in campaign sounds like a piece of performance art, the interpretation isn’t a stretch—Myles has been involved in the contemporary art scene for decades. Shining a Light on Eileen Myles 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z They brainstorm how to combat sex trafficking, they discuss wage inequality and they talk of masculinity not as a fixed biological state but as an evolving cultural construct. Michael Kimmel is out to show why feminism is good for men 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z Becoming a true centrist pop star is a battle Swift never quite won, and is a battle no longer worth waging. Taylor Swift, a Pop Star Done With Pop 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z The author writes at length about his houses, but too little about what Cromwell really thought of the great intellectual wars then being waged in Europe over religion and the power of the church. Henry’s hooray 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z And Week 7 really brought out the smoky eyes, spooky-looking trees and upped the production value in the glitterverse, while as host Tom Bergeron said, “Boys and ghouls wage terror on the dance floor.” 'Dancing With the Stars' recap: Halloween night tricks and treats 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Moyers didn’t back down, firing back that Tomlinson was waging “a surreptitious and relentless campaign” against him, his program and public broadcasting. Bill Moyers signs off — for the final time, he swears 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z Plus, there’s the transparency of tips: Tipped wages are legally protected, and though servers may choose to pool their tips with busboys and other front-of-house staff, that money can’t be touched by owners or cooks. Restaurant industry leader Danny Meyer ends tipping. Who will follow? 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Take the example of Jaguar Land Rover: the company pays every pregnant employee full wages for a year on maternity leave – and 99% return to work. Do Marissa Mayer's maternity plans make her a fit role model for women? 2012-07-21T23:05:56Z The “executive’s” email contained other red flags: poor English; an online-only contact with a generic email address; a “temporary wage” for the initial tasks, with promises to discuss salary later. Work Advice: Beware the crafty job scammers, even on the most trusted ad sites 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z What’s more, the expectancy of tips is built into a barkeep’s wages. Social Q?s: A Husband?s Thoughts and Actions Count - Social Q?s 2011-12-01T21:39:37Z The concert, a benefit for the Blues Foundation, with proceeds supporting a building fund for its Blues Hall of Fame in Memphis, could have succumbed to corny maxims about the mortal wages of the blues. Music Review: ?Robert Johnson at 100? at the Apollo Theater 2012-03-07T19:51:48Z But ROC’s biggest complaints about Capital Grille have to do with intentionally stealing wages from its employees of color, and discriminating against them in promotions. Fast food restaurants don’t need to pay starvation wages 2013-09-11T15:11:00Z Or the asymmetric warfare waged in Avatar, whose largest dragon, the Toruk, is vulnerable to attack from above precisely because of it's size. Pacific Rim: 'thrilling bit of blockbuster sublimity 2013-07-12T13:32:00Z Globalization might then have had a chance of bringing rising wages instead of a three-decade period in which increasingly productive workers have in effect not seen a pay raise. How Fox News created a new culture of idiots 2012-10-28T12:00:00Z Special overtime and minimum wage exemptions exist for certain computer professionals, depending on the kind of work they do. @Work Advice: More questions about employers’ demands 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Those paid below minimum wage have been met with hostility and subject to retaliation by their employers for speaking out for higher wages. 10 shameful ways the United States is failing to preserve basic human rights 2014-03-18T11:50:00Z The proposed hourly wage increase has been a controversial topic. Grubhub, Uber Eats and DoorDash sue New York City over imminent minimum wage increase 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z Adulthood did, in fact, prove difficult for Haim, as work dried up and he waged a public battle with drugs and alcohol. Video roundup: Corey Haim's charmed, tortured life 2010-03-10T15:11:00Z This protection applies to regular workplace complaints and grievances—for instance, joining with your coworkers to form a union or ask for a wage increase—but can also apply to political activity. Want to speak out about politics at work? Here are 3 things you need to know 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z He waged war against the powerful business trusts in pursuit of a "square deal" for average Americans, but his party turned away. 'To Make Men Free' is a timely tale of the ever-changing GOP 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z The government will increase this to £7.20 per hour for people over 24 from next April, renaming it the “national living wage”. Dan Price: the CEO who took a pay cut to give his staff a $70k minimum wage 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, Michael Gove, who has long waged war on what he calls “the blob” of the educational establishment, is preparing to axe 1,000 Civil Service jobs. Grayling's rehabilitation speech and Clegg taking DPMQs: Politics live blog 2012-11-20T16:11:00Z California’s minimum wage is slightly higher than Virginia’s, so labor costs are a bit of a differentiator but not the deciding factor. Why does a strawberry grown down the road cost more than one grown in California? 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord," according to BibleGateway, which cited the New International Version of the Bible. North Carolina restaurant receives $1K tip from ‘Holiday Angel’ 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z Almost as soon as the “Boyhood” star garnered praise for her public advocacy of equal pay, she received backlash for her narrow approach to tackling the wage gap. Patricia Arquette doubles down on equal pay: “Why aren’t you an advocate for equality for all women?” 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z “All previous wars were considered what we call here ‘wars of no choice’ — wars waged with a sense that they were absolutely necessary to secure Israel’s very existence. Film: ?Lebanon,? Samuel Maoz?s Tank?s-Eye View of War 2010-08-01T01:53:00Z That reminded her of own path to a living wage. ‘I, Too, Am America’ Shares Snapshots From Workers Living on the Edge 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z For now, here’s reminder of what Stewart looking like when it all began, 16 years ago. and when he waged war on Christmas We asked readers for their favourite moments as well. Jon Stewart hosts his final Daily Show - live! 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Sometimes, such “for your consideration” efforts are mounted in advertisements in trade publications; this one is being waged, it seems, mainly by talking up the idea in free forums. Perspective | The 2020 Democratic National Convention won with viewers. Now its organizers hope to win an Emmy. 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z The English writer Tom McCarthy has been waging a one-man war against literary realism, or as he sometimes calls it, “the middlebrow commercial novel,” for coming on 20 years now. Reality According to Tom McCarthy 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Few machines are more powerful at waging such offensives successfully than Hollywood. Meeting "Harry & Meghan": the Sussexes launch the next stage of their strategic charm offensive 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z In a clever move, researchers looked at parts of the country with a boom in fracking, bringing new jobs in the oil and gas industries and an uptick in wages for working-class men. New study: Women don’t want to get married just because men make more money 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Ms. King is a taut, unsmiling crusader waging a war not only against breast cancer but also against the smug, dismissive, mostly male medical establishment that leaves her research perpetually underfunded. Movie Review: ‘Decoding Annie Parker’ Follows a Breast Cancer Discovery 2014-05-01T22:30:50Z As such ,the psychological wages of whiteness can be used to manipulate whites to work against their own self-interest. Roots of white rage: America’s clash of class and race, from the Civil War to the rise of Trump 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Along with the ongoing debate over raising the minimum wage, “Good People” also reflects a growing trend: the sinking into poverty of households headed by single women. Playwright’s working-class roots inspired Seattle Rep’s ‘Good People’ 2013-03-07T20:19:42Z Red poppies have become a symbol of remembrance since the trench warfare waged in the poppy fields of the Belgian region of Flanders during the war. Lights go out across Britain, 100 years on from World War One 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z The city offers incentives for productions, including cash payments of up to 16.2% of wages paid to production personnel. The gray mood of Portland, Ore.: Like a character on 'Grimm' 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Chinese, North Korean and Russian leaders realized that cyber tools allowed them to wage asymmetrical attacks. ‘Dawn of the Code War’ Review: The Cyber Threat Reconsidered 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z The rise in the cost of living has also seen workers demand wage increases to counteract the impact of inflation on their pay packets. 5 problems that could slow supplies of food and other goods this winter 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z He outlines 15 proposals that would boost egalitarianism, including setting a minimum wage and a suggested maximum at a multiple of the minimum. Mind the gap 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z She deploys teams of lawyers, issues writ after writ, and ties Alexander up in so many knots of alimony and maintenance that his writing becomes not just a reasonable career option but wage slavery. My First Wife by Jakob Wassermann – review 2012-12-06T08:00:02Z The amount on the cheque was a little more than the average annual wage for somebody in full-time employment, before tax. William Leith: my problem with money 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z Filing the intent to sue back in November, Bennett reportedly requested $3.5 million in damages from "the intentional infliction of emotional distress, lost wages, assault and battery." Asia Argento, sexual assault accuser and accused: One #MeToo story doesn’t cancel out the other 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Under the new wage agreement, existing guards who were being paid $15.51 an hour were given raises and are now being paid $17 an hour. The Met Increases Its Pay to Guards to Address Covid-Related Shortages 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z You will need to worry about earning a wage, paying your taxes, beginning a retirement fund, paying for health insurance, and so on. 5 Real World Skills You Won’t Learn in School 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Until the recession hit, Mr. Murray insisted, his blue-collar friends were eager to hire apprentices at good wages but struggled to find anyone willing to do the work. Charles Murray?s ?Coming Apart: The State of White America? 2012-02-05T22:33:26Z “He is innocent of the false and hurtful accusations in the ongoing smear campaign against him, waged by enemies seeking a payoff.” Should Streaming Music Services Penalize Bad Behavior? 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z Sustainable business practices such as fair wages and an ethical work environment are also being touted, with Roopa Pemmaraju’s use of natural fibers and the recycled materials of Tribe & Glory. N.Y. fashion week reaches beyond runways toward diversity 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z The weekly wage went on the weekly rent, on the weekly food, on medicine, on booze. LS Lowry's rage against the machine 2013-06-13T06:00:04Z Visiting this demure, borderline drab wage slave, he finds she lives in a gaudily decorated apartment, wears slinky outfits and pursues the secret life of a sexual cougar. Todd Solondz's Dark Horse: Misery Loves Comedy 2012-06-08T10:45:56Z Even by the beginning of the pandemic, when the museum slashed 25 jobs in April 2020, he said there had been a gradual whittling down of wages and resources for those who make the least. ‘We are in crisis mode’: Museum workers are turning to unions over conditions they say are untenable 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z As someone upon whom the sun has waged a truly epic campaign to kill, I obviously have my own dog very actively in this hunt. Is sunscreen worse than cigarettes? 2012-08-24T20:45:00Z He also addressed Haiti's infamous corruption by saying that he wants to pay people a minimum wage and pay public servants on time. APNewsBreak: Jean seeks dual citizenship for Haiti 2010-08-15T01:34:00Z For American viewers right now, the contradictions that wage war within this reluctant fundamentalist are haunting and, quite possibly, terrifying. The Reluctant Fundamentalist: How a Nice Islamic Guy Got Mixed Up in Terrorism 2013-04-26T03:30:28Z In these discussions, inequality is exemplified by the wage gap, the number of women in Congress, and whether women are courting poverty and death by having babies before they’re rich. A woman’s right to say ‘meh’: being sex positive won’t guarantee you an orgasm 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z Large swaths of this book concern the depressing blame game the administration and Congressional Republicans waged against each other after talks between President Obama and Mr. Boehner about the grand bargain abruptly collapsed. Books of The Times: ‘The Price of Politics,’ by Bob Woodward 2012-09-08T00:31:09Z The two men traded personal put-downs and waged ideological war on each other’s politics for ten nights. What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Empire’ and ‘Pitch’ 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z "The amount he spends on company is like someone's yearly wage...," the man told the newspaper. AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd charged with plotting to kill two people 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z And few would deny that theater employees, like other workers, are too often compensated at rates well below the minimum wage, let alone the living wage, in their communities. When Paying Dues Doesn’t Pay the Rent, How Does the Theater Survive? 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z "The truth is how much books cost is not specific to the minimum wage," said Heather Fain, senior vice president and director of marketing strategy at Hachette Book Group. Independent bookstores remain on a roll, their membership numbers growing for a seventh consecutive year 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z It’s difficult to determine the precise wage gap for Hollywood in particular. Emma Stone Says Male Co-Stars Cut Their Own Salaries to Tackle Inequity 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z An Actors’ Equity Assn. membership company, Antaeus is exempt from the union’s relatively new rule that Los Angeles theaters with 99 or fewer seats must pay Equity actors a minimum wage. Which actress is Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'? (And yes, that's a trick question) 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Leaders say the lowest paid crafts get unlivable wages. Film TV workers union says strike to start next week 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Catastrophic depopulation altered the balance of power between authority and labourers, who were now in a position to demand higher wages and more rights. Brilliant threads 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z This is why the “wages of whiteness” that came with such jobs are so highly prized and protected to this day. Who gets to borrow white privilege? This is what happens when an Asian-American cop kills an unarmed African-American 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z It includes a tax break for companies that hire new workers, an extension of the payroll tax holiday to wage earners, and now to small businesses, as well. Obama to Congress: Stop 'political circus' 2011-09-08T22:40:00Z It is the reason the federal minimum wage and the overtime threshold are stuck at poverty levels. The college admissions scandal is just the tip of the inequality iceberg 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z Industry officials admit the discrimination in wages and recognition of skills of female workers, but say attitudes are beginning to change among the country's bigger companies. Building India's cities, silent workforce of women goes unrecognized 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Walker hires the brothers to work his land, paying them a fair wage and sometimes dining with them, along with his wife, Isabelle. A Civil War Novel Imagines More Racial Kinship Than Horror 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z By 2004, so many road shows were doing this that Actors’ Equity intervened, introducing new contracts with wages as low as $500 a week. On the Road, Actors Seek Higher Pay 2014-01-26T22:56:37Z Third, many humblebraggers take solace in a rationalization that runs roughly, “I’m not throwing away my afternoon on the Internet, I’m waging a jihad of quirky auto-branding.” Circa Now: Bah, Humblebrag: The (Unfortunate) Rise of False Humility 2012-11-30T20:49:55Z In the film, the warden of Shawshank prison, Samuel Norton, legally employs prisoners working inside the prison for below the minimum wage. Prisoners want work, but undercutting civilian pay is not the answer 2012-08-08T10:00:00Z In reality, it was an era when slavery was legal, women didn’t have the vote, and wage inequality created Dickensian conditions for the working class. The 5 most fevered overreactions to “50 Shades of Grey” 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Yet another bitter battle over art, appropriation and censorship is being waged this week — this time over a depiction of a Chinatown waiting room. Artist’s Chinatown Depiction Ignites Protests 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z One bottle costs more than 6 percent of the minimum monthly wage in Turkey. Steep alcohol taxes drive Turkey's drinkers to home-brew 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z Since it lost power in 2010, the Labour party has been in search of an answer to the de-industrialisation, growing wage inequality and economic insecurity that proved fertile territory for the Brexit campaign. Is Finland’s basic universal income a solution to automation, fewer jobs and lower wages? 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z I told myself that these were the wages of true artistry. Learning to Look at L.A. 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Organizers are also trying to reach parents and youth group leaders, believing that their misperceptions are steering kids away from an occupation that is more than pushing a lawn mower at minimum wage. The horticulture industry’s age problem is bigger than you think 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z In 2015, he introduced a much-heralded “hospitality included” policy that eliminated tipping in favor of a consistent hourly wage, while raising prices for dishes by 15 to 20 percent. The Restaurant Service Charge Isn’t Going Anywhere 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z There is something even worse than minimum wage. ‘Poor people don’t plan long-term. We’ll just get our hearts broken’ 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z There is an emerging subgenre of British nonfiction in which journalists from The Guardian fearlessly recount their own derring-do in David-and-Goliath battles waged against omnipotent state interests in the pursuit of Big Important Truths. ‘Hack Attack’ Puts a Spotlight on Rupert Murdoch 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z He promised to hire at least 130 people and pay them a starting wage of $15 an hour. A Religious Community and the Weed Farm in the Middle of It 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z Thanks to such a low minimum wage, many fast-food workers qualify for programs like Medicaid, energy assistance, and food assistance for children. What It Was Like Being a Left-Wing Pundit on “The O’Reilly Factor” 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z The tasks he was performing meant he was an employee under state law that should be paid minimum wage and overtime, the complaint states. PBS' Charlie Rose settles with unpaid interns as lawsuits spread 2013-07-01T23:47:10Z The idea, for the uninitiated, is global sustainability and fair wages to everyone in the commerce supply chain, from artisans to exporters. Perspective | In Va., a shop rooted in a couple’s global policy 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z Others, like Danny Meyer, the influential New York restaurateur who founded Union Square Hospitality Group and Shake Shack, have tried to replace tipping by raising menu prices, and paying all workers a consistent hourly wage. To Tip, or Not to Tip? 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z The movement to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, for example, succeeded through street activism and strikes. The Fight Over the Future of the Democratic Party 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Rothko waged many internal battles—especially out of his fears over the approach of the next generation of artists. Mark Rothko and Selling Out in the Art World 2010-03-26T20:43:00Z In other words, Apple reconstructed its business around a trade system that allows it to make products at Chinese wages and in Chinese conditions — all while selling those products at American prices. Will Walmart eat L.A.? 2012-06-26T19:39:00Z In James Anthony Tyler’s new drama, directed by Charlotte Brathwaite for the Labyrinth Theater Company, a group of workers struggle for a living wage and a dignified life. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z It offers a potential career path and the kind of meaningful work that pays a living wage without a college education. In Appalachia, Crafting a Road to Recovery With Dulcimer Strings 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z They are less supportive of a minimum wage than the rest of the population. How philanthropy benefits the super-rich 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z But even after a successful film, that’s not a guarantee of fair wages for female actresses. Reese Witherspoon is right: We have to keep pushing for pay equality in Hollywood and beyond 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z We spoke about resurrection, right-wing pundits and whether Congress should raise the minimum wage in order to celebrate Easter. “You want people like that to hate you”: Reza Aslan on Glenn Beck, that Fox News interview, and who gets to speak for Jesus 2014-04-20T10:59:00Z She said that her biggest expenses include electricity for her two kilns and the hourly wage she pays the modeler she works with. Can Old-World Ceramics Survive Modern Tastes? 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z Shaken, Price reined in wages and continued to even after the economy recovered. Dan Price: the CEO who took a pay cut to give his staff a $70k minimum wage 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z But the symphony also saw its musicians strike last year in a dispute over wages and health care costs. New Kennedy Center leader Deborah Rutter blazed trail in Seattle 2013-12-12T19:31:25Z So the determined older professor, who didn’t rise to the top by being gentle and giving, decides to wage war against Msemaji, and to do so on the younger woman’s unfamiliar turf. Review: In ‘Relevance,’ a Titan of Feminism Confronts a New Generation 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z Instead of expecting customers to tip the people who wait on them, tip-free restaurants pay all employees wages that reflect their skill and seniority. Year of Upheaval for Restaurants That Ended Tipping 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z At the same time, the show stayed faithful to the fundamental precept of the original series: Here was a documentary film crew shooting wage slaves at their workplace. 'The Office': shutting down on NBC after 8 years 2013-05-14T14:26:08Z In addition to demanding higher wages and safer working conditions, Palmdale organizers are fighting to get Amazon to recognize the Teamsters, respect their contract and reinstate unlawfully terminated employees. 12 of the biggest strikes during this Hot Labor Summer 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z The under-30s in particular are being priced out of owning their own homes, paid lower wages and left with diminishing job prospects, despite a strong economic recovery being enjoyed by some. Under-30s being priced out of the UK, says Alan Milburn 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z Starting April 1, crew members will be paid 80 percent of their average wages for two months. Coronavirus pandemic: EasyJet grounds entire fleet during outbreak 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z Sure, there are traditional long-term volunteer programs dating back to the Peace Corps that allow you to see the world for a small wage by pitching in on local projects. Practical Traveler: Budget Excursions for Volunteers 2011-07-13T15:01:50Z It will also appeal for all political parties to back a living wage to help combat the illnesses. Rickets returns as poor families find healthy diets unaffordable 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z To reopen smoothly, the Met’s staff members still have numerous battles to wage. The Met Opera Races to Reopen After Months of Pandemic Silence 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Opponents of right-to-work call it "union busting" and say it will lower the wages of workers. Indiana joins right-to-work ranks 2012-02-01T20:39:05Z Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez used her shock over a pricey croissant to call for a fair minimum wage Monday on Twitter. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez uses pricey croissants to criticize opponents of $15 minimum wage 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z The contagion doesn’t just spread because of proximity or air droplets; it feeds on disparity in housing, insurance, transportation, wages, child care, food security. American exceptionalism was our preexisting condition 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z But few collectors in China publicly flaunt their wealth the way Mr. Liu and Ms. Wang do, particularly as the government wages a crackdown on extravagance. With Modigliani Purchase, Chinese Billionaire Dreams of Bigger Canvas 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Although workers united under the banner of the union earn good wages, few can afford to live in Manhattan, let alone escape to the putative security of a weekend refuge. From White Gloves to Latex, the Doormen of New York 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z The company is pushing for a wage freeze for the dancers, whose contract expires in July. NYC ballet company faces off with dancers' union 2011-01-11T22:38:11Z On Dec. 7, 2020, Tank Noodle Inc. agreed to pay the back wages owed. Chicago restaurant pays almost $700G in back pay for wage violations 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z The statistics say Binghamton’s unemployment and wages are just slightly below the national average. Love couldn't break heroin's grip as sons became casualties of epidemic 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z The point of the story: pay a living wage, pay a decent minimum wage. A Worker Shortage Is Forcing Restaurants to Get Creative 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Within weeks, small teams of these soldiers formed coalitions with the Afghan Northern Alliance, waged war on enemies and, at the time, drove the Taliban from power. Review: ‘Legion of Brothers’ on Secret Missions in Afghanistan 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Its top priorities, Lee said, are wages, scheduling, and transportation and healthcare support. Frye Art Museum workers vote to form union 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Henry Ford was enlightened, in many respects: he introduced the five-day week, a $5 minimum wage, and his Model T Ford liberated individual Americans. TV highlights 31/05/2013 2013-05-31T06:00:03Z That was the norm in the U.S. from the 1950s through the late 1970s, when Republicans regularly joined with Democrats to raise the minimum wage. McDonald’s ends its war against higher salaries, so what does that mean for the minimum wage? 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z In “Death’s End” spaceships encounter mysterious artifacts when they pass through a region of fourth-dimensional space, and we meet a killer super-civilization, which wages war by altering the laws of physics. China's most popular science fiction writer, Cixin Liu, brings his spectacular trilogy to an end 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z The announcement underscored the fragility of finances at the Met, which has cut wages and fees in recent years to curb its mounting costs and offset struggles at the box office. Requiem for a New Metropolitan Opera Production 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z No one can make a standard living being paid the fenders minimum wage. Havana’s Symphony of Sound 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z So we began to focus on education and the workplace and equal pay, even though there still is a wage gap. WATCH: The worldwide war against abortion rights: “If you keep pushing a fetus-first mentality, women are going to be punished” 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z All her employees start above the minimum wage. Hey, McDonald’s: Not every restaurant treats its employees like dirt 2014-01-31T13:30:00Z Workers in the toy factory earn pitiable wages, but the elite are gathering in the riches. A Magic-Filled Island Where Life’s Struggles Rage 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z At this point, you may think the last person you want to spend time with is a crazy, capricious head of state with the power to wage cataclysmic war. Review: Mark Rylance Returns to Broadway as a Mad Monarch to Cherish 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z The war in “Chi-Raq” is strictly a domestic affair, waged by black male citizens on other black citizens. Review: Spike Lee’s ‘Chi-Raq,’ a Barbed Takedown of Gang Wars, With Sex as the Weapon 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Beyond those deaths, bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics cause millions of illnesses – 2m annually just in the United States – and cost billions in healthcare spending, lost wages, and lost national productivity. Read this and you may never eat chicken again 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z At the same time, the way working class wages have just seen the bottom fall out. New "OK Boomer" book tries to heal generational rift between Millennials and Boomers 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z And chlorine changed the way nations waged war. 'Periodic Tales' a charming look at the elements 2011-04-08T12:06:12Z For many workers, particularly those in places where businesses are permitted to pay a lower wage to employees eligible for tips, the extra money is a lifeline. To Tip, or Not to Tip? 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z They would be reflections from bureaucrats and wage slaves, from stay-at-home moms and retired managers, from middle school kids and people who are illiterate. “Comment sections are brilliant and extremely relevant”: Christy Wampole on the awfulness of Facebook, the utility of “think pieces” and why you might be reading the Internet all wrong 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z The Breakthrough’ is the story of this desperate war waged on a cellular level.” 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z But what really enrages her is that men at the same level receive substantially higher wages. | 'Made in Dagenham': ?60s Sweatshop Girls Fighting Ford 2010-11-19T06:05:00Z Most of this is attributed to inadequate wages and a lack of social security for farmers and farm workers. The true cost of food: High grocery prices are not the root issue 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z He and others in the party point to the fact that Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton waged their fight through the very last primary in June. Extended GOP fight raises new questions about primary process 2012-03-01T13:34:00Z Among the conspiracy theories they cited as prevalent among Greeks: European bankers and policymakers are using Greece as an “experiment” to see how far they can drive down wages and pensions before the population snaps. Myths explain Greece 2012-06-25T15:15:00Z It transpires that, as with too many of the toughest jobs in the urban economy, some of the most educated people in the restaurant kitchen are the ones working the sinks on the lowest wage. Wash, clean, scrub: Can Jay Rayner hack life as a kitchen porter? 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z In the sequel, an alliance of Greek city-states wage battle on the seas against the Persians. '300' tops 'Mr. Peabody' to capture weekend box office 2014-03-09T23:29:15Z It was a bumbling war, waged by a team of swaggering novices. All the president’s ‘Guys’ 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Abigail Disney argued it was not enough for the company to commit to paying double the minimum wage. Walt Disney heir says paying chief executive £50.5m is 'insane' 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z For example, left feminists argue that the 1970s influx of professional women to the rich world's workplaces allowed the bosses, employing some rational-choice theory of their own, to drive down wages for everybody. The XX Factor: How Working Women Are Creating a New Society by Alison Wolf – review 2013-04-26T08:30:01Z It also conforms to the outdated notion of husbands as primary wage earners. Just So We’re Clear: I’m Also Paying the Bill 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z In her spare time, she has been waging a Twitter battle against Donald Trump, who called her a “washed up psycho” on the platform earlier this month. Bette Midler Looks Back on Her Autobiographical, Fantastical Children’s Book, “The Saga of Baby Divine” 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z He belonged to the same clubs, drank the same booze and wore the same ties as the other men who secretly waged war against Britain’s enemies. Rogue mate 2014-04-16T04:00:00Z Implacable rivals and die-hard punters Packer and Murdoch wage a battle of wallets and dominance using Boling and King as their generals. Paper Giants: Magazine Wars - TV review 2013-06-02T15:04:00Z Starting around 1980, globalization and automation began exerting downward pressure on median wages. We’ve been brainwashed 2012-06-14T17:21:00Z Instead of howling about misspent youth against huge, churning guitar riffs, he ruminates on the wages of adulthood, musically enveloped in a cosmic, plaintive version of Americana. Craig Finn of the Hold Steady on ?Clear Hearts, Full Eyes? 2012-01-22T02:23:06Z Postal workers, on strike over low wages and treacherous conditions, had stopped delivering the U.S. mail. The Best Song for Soothing Your Election Anxiety 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z They live in cramped dormitories and are paid subsistence wages, risking their lives with little prospect of advancement. | 'Iron Crows': Documentary on Shipbreakers, and Where Tankers Go When They Die 2011-08-23T21:53:07Z “Like, ‘I brought this on myself — I became an artist, signed up for low wages and financial and career insecurity.’ Arts workers are building a labor movement to save a creative economy in peril 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Options included putting a lien on his wages, property or bank account. I went to D.C.’s small claims court and learned a big lesson — in something Can’t workers, through union organizing and living wage policies, win better pay and benefits through the growing service and healthcare sectors? Reviving manufacturing would help all of us—not just white men 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z And in the wake of automation, in real wages, the white man without a B.A. earns less now than he did in 1979. What’s Wrong With the Meritocracy 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z “There is a quote in episode two where he says there is evidence that lower wages increase productivity.” ‘We've had a love-hate relationship’: Steve Coogan on bringing Alan Partridge back to the BBC 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z If the labor supply - in a nation in which many people do not have good jobs, healthcare, and living wages - cannot be filled, then wages are not high enough. A Worker Shortage Is Forcing Restaurants to Get Creative 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z There are NO other solutions to address America’s wage gap. John Oliver has solved America’s gender wage gap problem with “Ladybucks” 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z Fleck dreams of being a successful standup comedian but earns minimum wage as a pathetic party clown named Carnival. Joker strives to capture our cultural moment – but it’s smug and banal at heart 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Bennett initially requested $3.5 million in damages from Argento for emotional distress, lost wages, assault and battery, according to the Times. Asia Argento denies sexual assault allegations, claims Anthony Bourdain “insisted” on payout 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z When psychoactive substances gained recreational popularity as street drugs, the Nixon administration waged its war on drugs, passing the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. Psychedelic mushrooms could cure anxiety for cancer patients 2014-04-27T16:00:00Z I have kept all my staff on full wages as statutory sick pay will not allow them to pay the bills. 'Over one hour everything was cancelled' – how coronavirus devastated the film industry 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z After an editorial decrying unpaid internships, the New York Times announced Tuesday that it will pay academic interns minimum wage. Interns are now protected against sexual harassment in New York City 2014-03-29T19:00:00Z The E.P.I.’s calculator is part of the group’s larger efforts to draw attention to the unrealistic estimates of the government’s standard poverty level and a minimum wage — but it still offers a very limited picture. Motherlode Blog: The Price of Urban Family Living 2013-08-07T14:31:02Z “Everybody here works for me, and I want to pay them a fair living wage that’s guaranteed,” she said. Amanda Cohen Replants Her Vegetable Restaurant Dirt Candy 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z But Mitch McConnell’s Senate Republicans and the Trump Administration continue to oppose raising the minimum wage – and are fighting most other action to protect workers, like paid family leave and equal pay. McDonald’s ends its war against higher salaries, so what does that mean for the minimum wage? 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z After almost 25 years of searching and waging legal battles for the shepherdess, Dr. Meyer remains resolute to continue her quest. Will a Looted Pissarro End Up in Oklahoma, or France? 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z This gap between intent and reality also emerged in a May report from University of Sheffield researchers in Britain on apparel companies not delivering on promises to pay workers a living wage. H&M’s Different Kind of Clickbait 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z How many times had a callow lad slaving for the minimum wage poured me an unsatisfactory Guinness? Some say the affable charm of the people and the culture is Ireland's draw, but it's the pubs 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z Part of what the agent negotiates is not just a good wage for the headliners, but also leveraging the band's clout for good slots on the festival bill for other acts on the agent's roster. Ask the indie professor: How many musicians does it take to plan a tour? 2010-09-21T12:38:00Z Under the agreement, which was ratified by the union on Tuesday, the dancers will receive a wage increase of 6.7 percent this season, tied to the rate of inflation in New York City. Raises and Safety Protections in City Ballet Dancers’ New Contract 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Employers recognize the tipped individual as a great boon to the business: someone who needn’t be given benefits, a living wage, or employment security. Tipping breeds indentured servitude 2013-09-09T12:00:00Z The Esperanto activists are here, as always, waging an uphill battle for their purpose-built international language. France's 24-hour parti people 2010-09-17T16:00:00Z For those students the wage premium for attending college without getting a degree is basically zero. Free college isn’t the solution: How the push for “college for all” sets up students to fail 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z Paying actors a fair wage has worked in other cities, Equity spokeswoman Maria Somma says. At Road Theatre Company, how the Equity-mandated minimum wage might play out 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z As for the employees at your coffee place: If they are like the employees at mine, many of them are struggling with piecemeal shift work and low wages. Male Ally or Apologist? 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z When families can’t make ends meet because of sluggish wage growth, ruthless benefits cuts and a rising cost of living, children suffer. Why aren’t we outraged by child poverty in Britain and the US? | Mary O’Hara 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Attell is far too wedded to the economical structure of hard jokes to veer off into the poetic flourishes of Dave Chappelle, and he seems to have little interest in waging culture wars. Dave Attell Is Our Greatest Club Comic (Says the Writer He Made Fun Of) 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z When you maximize unemployment and depress wages, people have to cut back. Farmers? sand-frac nightmare 2012-05-21T16:31:00Z This novel made me laugh, quite a lot, as the generations wage war. Ali Smith’s ‘Summer’ Ends a Funny, Political, Very Up-to-Date Quartet 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z “Child labor and minimum wage laws are flouted,” Mr. Estabrook writes. Books of The Times: That Perfect Florida Tomato, Cultivated for Bland Uniformity 2011-07-05T21:04:11Z Karla: The private school that hired your son may be exempt from paying the federal standard minimum wage under a special “youth minimum wage” exception, explained in Labor Department Fact Sheet 32. @Work Advice: Summer job pay leaves teen’s parent cold 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z "But when we started out, it was sort of secretive. "The first wages I ever got was 60 quid, which I went out and bought a Super 8 camera with. Spandau bring 'emotional' film to Cannes 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Without new funds, the newspaper might not be able to keep printing and paying wages through the summer. Le Monde Seeks a Financial Savior 2010-06-03T13:45:00Z The specter of proletarian dependency haunted the lives of the country’s self-reliant handicraftsmen who watched apprehensively as shops employing wage labor began popping up across the country. Why Etan Patz still haunts us 2012-05-25T18:00:00Z He wages a ground war to get at the truth, which comes less in one single “aha” moment than as a slow drip of facts penetrating a tissue of lies. ‘Hack Attack,’ About a Rupert Murdoch Paper’s Trials, by Nick Davies 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z This sea change in the entertainment world isn’t always reflected in the wages or treatment of the average dancer. What It Means to Become ‘America’s Favorite Dancers’ 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z “Where are you going to find PhDs in astro-engineering who will work for minimum wage in the maintenance department?” he asks. Imagining a five-star hotel among the stars 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z For example, Robert E. Lee’s death in 1870 provoked a controversy about whether the flag of the United States should be lowered to honor a man who had waged war against the nation. How We Remember the Civil War 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z By 2011, a friendly war between artists soon emerged – waged, instead of bullets, with the likes of Brad Pitt’s melancholy, ideological rants in “Fight Club,” scantily-clad pin-up girls and kid-friendly “Looney Tunes” characters. 10 striking images of graffiti in Kandahar 2014-01-05T13:00:00Z In a parting jibe, the marquee performers said they left in search of creative freedom not money -- although a free flat and generous wages were part of the Mikhailovsky offer. Russia's shiny new Bolshoi grappling with gripes 2012-02-01T15:46:09Z The industrial dispute began last month when Actors Equity arranged an international boycott of the movies when Jackson refused to hold talks on a union-negotiated agreement on wages and conditions for local actors. New Zealand tries to keep 'The Hobbit' 2010-10-26T03:18:00Z Almost from the moment India became a sovereign nation it turned into a colonial power, annexing territory, waging war. Arundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part Four 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z Furthermore, a spokesperson said that the shop is proud to treat their employees fairly by offering breaks, a benefit plan and a "living wage." Justin Trudeau's doughnut order sparks controversy among Canadians 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z She highlights the reality of surviving with low wages, no paid sick leave, no paid parental leave, and no subsidized childcare. Is marriage really on the decline because of men's cheap access to sex? 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z The two sides remain at odds over several key issues, including staffing levels, wages and overtime pay, according to the union. Kennedy Center stagehands authorize strike, putting ‘Hadestown’ and other scheduled shows in jeopardy 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z The Sons of the Harpy are waging urban guerilla warfare in payback for the slave rebellion, and former slaves are paying back the payback. Game of Thrones Watch: Making a List, Checking It Twice 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z “The other future is what we call the ‘low road,’ and involves digitization and extremely low wages. Will robot-led restaurants be a gift or a curse to food workers? 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z I wanted to give someone a living wage in New York. ‘It’s More Money Than I Imagined.’ So He’s Giving Some of It Away. 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Last week, McDonald’s upended the debate over raising the minimum wage when it announced it would no longer lobby against increasing it. McDonald’s ends its war against higher salaries, so what does that mean for the minimum wage? 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z She’s trying to work, too, to make a wage and a living, and I’d messed up the precariously smooth operation of her day. Selling my eggs to make rent 2013-02-03T18:00:00Z That is the equivalent of a few weeks’ basic wage for the German players who are employed by wealthy European clubs like Arsenal, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid. How World Cup cash is paid to teams, players 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Buckingham Palace often advertises vacancies for butlers and so on at below the London living wage. Meghan and Harry's story is quite the drama, but it's no abdication crisis 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z The striking airline workers were said to be protesting over wages and health benefits, specifically those provided, or not provided, to employees working for subcontractors serving American Airlines. Hundreds of airport catering workers arrested during Tuesday protests at airports across the nation 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Even with over-the-top food and party favors that cost about a month’s local wages, everyone here seemed dreadfully bored. A very happy new year, that happened in Havana 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z The Ricky Gervais haters are legion and vocal and the petty war he wages against certain critics becomes more understandable when you read through the cuts. Ricky Gervais 2010-07-17T23:08:00Z Musicians went on strike Saturday over wages and health care costs, forcing the cancellation of the season's first Saturday night show less than two hours before it started. Chicago Symphony, striking musicians reach deal 2012-09-25T02:04:11Z We need to use public dollars to invest in job creation, from construction workers to school teachers, all with good wages and benefits. Can schools fix our economy? 2012-08-05T12:00:00Z “After a while, it was feeling morally reprehensible to ask people to do what I was asking them to do in a high-volume craft cocktail situation and pay them such a low wage,” she said. We asked bartenders to talk about a topic they traditionally avoid at work: politics. 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z And the hourly wage, I'm pretty sure it was under $1. Baratunde Thurston is making America love the outdoors again: "There's history in nature for us" 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z Unsurprisingly, Trump, thrilled that someone noticed him, has spent his Wednesday waging a one-sided war against Brian Williams. Trump: You’re fired! 2012-11-07T20:54:00Z After James’s death in 1625, Buckingham continued to enjoy royal favor but caused increasing public resentment for waging unsuccessful military campaigns in France and Spain. Newly found Rubens portrait of King James I lover unveiled in Glasgow 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z According to a new report from the Associated Press, California will raise the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 per hour. California raises minimum wage for fast food workers, which will go into effect next April 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z The “family wage” that a man earned was supposed to be sufficient to subsidise his wife’s unpaid efforts. The foul reign of the biological clock | Moira Weigel 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z “The current conversation is a reminder that those of us in a position of influence have a responsibility to challenge inequities, including the gender wage gap,” the statement said. Mark Wahlberg and Agency Will Donate $2 Million to Time’s Up After Outcry Over Pay 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z I’d argue that universal health care and a higher minimum wage would help, too. Are iPhones Bad for Kids? 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Brendan seems to be describing the Federal Work-Study Program, the point of which is to help students offset debt with wages earned on campus. The Bullshit-Job Boom 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z She was fired after complaining about her wage. L.A. Philharmonic's notable lead clarinetist scales down her career after 54 years 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z The loss of hope can be seen in economic numbers, like declining wages, or the number of factories and coal mines closed. America's opioid addiction: 'I ended up selling all my valuable stuff to buy pills' 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z It was bad enough for craftsmen to see their own livelihoods and standards of living put in jeopardy by “free” wage labor. Why Etan Patz still haunts us 2012-05-25T18:00:00Z You know, somebody asked me the other day, “Don’t you think that higher wages will drive inflation?” Marty Walsh: ‘I have a president and a vice president who really believe in the mission of the Department of Labor’ 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z Also in the Friday night proposal were two other enhancements cited by Kaplon, relating to new-media wages and low-budget film productions. Hollywood drivers ratify labor deal, avert strike 2010-07-26T05:53:00Z “He’s not a progressive,” Sanders told The Washington Post about Ossoff — who is pro-choice, supports increasing the minimum wage, is anti-war and supports immigration reform. Bye bye, Bernie: He’s not fit to captain the Democratic ship if he can’t stop chasing the great white male 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Young women earned a decent living wage, Detailing tiny digits on the mark. Style Invitational Week 1109: Fictoids of Columbia — tell us some fake D.C. trivia 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z The exception: When the expenses reduce the workers’ hourly rate for the week to below minimum wage or cut into overtime owed — which I doubt will happen at $1 per week. Expense retorts: Workers question paying for trade shows and bad coffee 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Donald Trump is a master of chaos, waging his own personal war on truth and reality. Decoding “the first Twitter president”: Mathematician Anthony Bonato on the science of Trump... 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z As for a solution, raising the minimum wage, both videos hint, would be a good place to start. This 'My Little Pony' Parody Explains Income Inequality 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z But when you’re on one wage for the five of us, you budget accordingly. ‘I was not willing to die for my breasts': the young women opting for mastectomies 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z For an alternative, this tour of Greenwich Village invites participants to learn about the figures and events that contributed to reform through demands for fair wages, safe working conditions and a shorter workweek. Around Town for Sep. 2-8 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Without them and what they make, crops could not be cultivated, wars waged, homes protected, rituals performed. An Art Critic in Africa: In Mali, Finding Art as Authentic as Life Itself 2012-04-16T18:59:43Z And Ver.di, one union behind the strike in Germany, has said it is prepared to stage more walkouts if wage negotiations are not resolved. Strikes in Europe Are Leaving Some Travelers Stranded. What You Need to Know. 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Bad idea: Fight a good wage for poor workers. Style Invitational Week 1459: And we quote: ‘It’s Parody Time’ 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z At the same time, he said, the cost of living has increased, and so he has adjusted the wages for his videographers accordingly. Have a Wedding Budget? Expect to Spend More Because of Inflation. 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z Photograph: Ted S Warren/AP On both sides of the Atlantic, some companies have decided to pay more than the national minimum wage voluntarily, including Ikea, Aldi, Costa Coffee and Morrisons. Dan Price: the CEO who took a pay cut to give his staff a $70k minimum wage 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z An audience of 30 or 40 people will work just fine, says Marriott, who is nevertheless committed to paying musicians a decent wage — $200 for side players, $300 for leaders — about double the usual stipend. Trumpeter Thomas Marriott helps start Seattle Jazz Fellowship where jazz veterans can mentor younger musicians 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Compared to McDonald’s, they start by paying all workers, including new hires, several dollars above the minimum wage. Fast food restaurants don’t need to pay starvation wages 2013-09-11T15:11:00Z Late in “President Me,” the author vows that he wouldn’t raise the minimum wage. Adam Carolla outlines his America in new book, ‘President Me’ He is a man waging war with the inept humanity he sees everywhere he goes. 'Listen Up Philip' is a toxic triumph 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Parents who worked for an hourly wage and chose between volunteering or earning money were unrepresented. Motherlode Blog: When Elite Parents Dominate Volunteers, Children Lose 2014-01-19T13:00:55Z A couple of decades ago, it wouldn’t have been possible for an upstart group to wage war, take over a few cities, and develop a cartel without high-level federal government connections. The Missing Story of the Drug War 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z For foes and friends, the feverish battles waged by neoconservatives over America’s military engagement and defense of Israel have loomed largest and provoked the deepest passions. Benjamin Balint?s Inside Look at Podhoretz?s Commentary 2010-06-11T22:30:00Z Perhaps this is a way for Miller, who writes the episode with Moss directing, to address those critiques about June's inexplicable survival by making her wages of her sin very dear this time. Hulu's tiresome "Handmaid's Tale" should learn from the sins of "Planet of the Apes" 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z Perhaps, Mr. Just said, the United States might have “won” by waging total war against North Vietnam, using atomic weapons or carpet bombing until the North’s cities were destroyed and the countryside left barren. Ward Just, 84, Dies; Ex-Journalist Found Larger Truths in Fiction 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Tipping is the onus of the purchaser who pays the wage of the worker on top of the cost of whatever service provided, which goes to the business itself. Tipping breeds indentured servitude 2013-09-09T12:00:00Z Saul is an hourly wage drudge who lives alone and constantly scans for anyone who might recognize him from his days as a wanted man in the aftermath of “Breaking Bad” infamy. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 6, Episode 10 Recap: Sweet Revenge 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z The reason why a living wage for writers is essential is that every industry that has become digital has seen a dramatic, and in many cases terminal, decrease in earnings for those who create "content". Are books dead, and can authors survive? 2011-08-22T16:21:14Z Even as the ranks of low-wage workers have swelled since the recession, Democratic and Republican legislatures in more than a dozen states have quietly slashed funding for the agencies that enforce minimum wage law. The wage theft epidemic 2013-02-20T16:00:00Z But since there was no corresponding wage increase for women, it caused the city’s gender pay gap to balloon. Did Amazon's growth widen the gender pay gap in Seattle? 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z The New Zealand Actors' Equity had claimed the film's producers would not allow them to negotiate on a minimum wage and working conditions for their members. Hobbit deal costs New Zealand changes in labour laws and $25m tax break 2010-10-27T16:06:00Z The Mead paid good wages, and moreover, it was a convenient place to drink and do drugs — Mr. Pollock’s two main interests back then. The Child of a Ragged Town Keeps Returning for Inspiration 2011-07-11T15:10:40Z Under the settlement, Rose and his production company, Charlie Rose Inc., will pay back wages to a potential class of 189 interns. Charlie Rose settles $250,000 suit with interns over wages 2012-12-21T03:14:52Z Goldsmith covers Bobby Kennedy’s scorched-earth campaign against Hoffa, first waged when Kennedy was the chief counsel for a Senate subcommittee on investigations and then when he became attorney general. ‘In Hoffa’s Shadow’ Details How a Famous Disappearance Hit Close to Home 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z They made do under the most adverse circumstances, providing sustenance for their own loved ones from their employers’ leftovers as well as ingredients bought with the cash wages earned with their labor. Black recipes matter, too: Why I wanted to break the Jemima code 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z The scheme recommends the minimum wage employees should be paid in London. 2010-02-12T13:50:00Z "We need to guarantee farmers a living wage for what they do," Nelson said. Upstate NY to host annual Farm Aid benefit concert 2013-06-14T04:09:08Z During the 1920s, tensions sprang up in the South over the influx of Mexican immigrants who worked for low wages. The real reason cocaine, heroin and marijuana are illegal has nothing to do with addiction 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Over the course of a decade, in the midst of caring for wounded, a community waged war not only on a virus, but on sclerotic institutions that refused to deal with it. Can AIDS activism battle the Tea Party? 2012-07-24T15:15:00Z Illuminating white-collar wage slavery with the ruthlessness of fluorescent tubes, the sitcom is a satire of life under capitalism that captures its texture: that of factory-farmed gruel. My Favorite TV Shows of 2018 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Edu said he relied on other couriers to rent him food delivery account details for a weekly fee that was deducted directly from his wages. How undocumented migrants find work as substitute couriers in the UK 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z Often desperate to secure waged work but with no options for lawful employment, they are willing to accept pay standards well below the UK's national minimum wage and put up with stressful working conditions. How undocumented migrants find work as substitute couriers in the UK 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z The tape recorder my parents had bought us, although nowhere near at the top of the range, would have cost more than four times his weekly wage. My father paid four times his weekly wage for the greatest gift of my life 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z One of more than 20 books written by Ms. Ehrenreich, “Nickel and Dimed” bolstered the movement for higher wages just as the consequences of the dot-com bubble snaked through the economy in 2001. Barbara Ehrenreich, Explorer of Prosperity’s Dark Side, Dies at 81 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z According to the lawsuit, which was filed in the Fulton County State Court, Ray and Crosby are seeking the full cost of their "medical bills, property damage and lost wages." Wedding musicians sue hotel, vendors after tent collapse: ‘I thought I was going to die’ 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z Remember when Cruz accused supporters of marriage equality that they were waging a “jihad”? “Let’s get rid of Ted Cruz!”: Jon Stewart axes GOP’s weakest link for 2016 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z “The Breakthrough” is the story of this desperate war waged on a cellular level. Could Immunotherapy Offer a Cure for Cancer? 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z In addition to the “all white, all male” chain of command at NBC, there was Weinstein himself, waging a war on all fronts. In ‘Catch and Kill,’ Ronan Farrow Recounts Chasing Harvey Weinstein Story 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z David’s father wages an especially insidious kind of psychological warfare. Review | Playwright David Adjmi’s stirring memoir, ‘Lot Six,’ explores the very meaning of identity 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Employees are seeking improved wages, staffing, and benefits. Starbucks "partners" continue to find success in union efforts 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z I confront this in my work as an advocate for a higher minimum wage. Why are the poor blamed and shamed for their deaths? 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z “They are protesting for a living wage. They are protesting for basic human rights. They are protesting for full and rich lives, and they’re not getting paid enough to create that for themselves,” he said. Protests disrupt London Film Festival in cinema wage dispute 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z You committed yourself and dedicated your fame and career to wage some of the greatest wars of our time. U2's Bono receives French honour 2013-07-17T14:33:57Z That August, Congress appropriated $1 billion to support the Economic Opportunity Act, which promised to wage a “War against Poverty.” Everything you know about the 1960s is wrong 2012-11-24T14:00:00Z Disney made no mention of the living wage ordinance in a letter it wrote to the Anaheim city council on Tuesday, alluding only to an “adversarial climate” and a “difficult working relationship with the city”. 'Pay a living wage': Bernie Sanders accuses Disney of dodging fair pay 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z And in “Death’s End” we encounter Thomas Wade, an American intelligence officer who is prepared to wage a horrific civil war in order to pursue transformative research into light-speed travel. China's most popular science fiction writer, Cixin Liu, brings his spectacular trilogy to an end 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Delivery drivers are classified as independent contractors, not salaried employees, which accounts for the higher intended minimum wage. Grubhub, Uber Eats and DoorDash sue New York City over imminent minimum wage increase 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z Miéville also called for a uniform, blanket salary for writers, novelists and poets, equivalent to the "wage of a skilled worker". China Miéville: Writers should welcome a future where readers remix our books 2012-08-21T18:15:42Z But he overstates his case when he dismisses “the traditional explanations” for America’s success: its individualistic culture, Puritanism, the lure of open land and high wages, Yankee ingenuity and government policies. Blood cotton 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Unlike conflicted draftees, warriors exist solely to wage war. Killing me softly with militarism 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z The center’s initial proposals of 40 percent were reduced, he added, but it still wants to cut wages and overtime. Kennedy Center stagehands authorize strike, putting ‘Hadestown’ and other scheduled shows in jeopardy 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Thus in the first season we watched as Buscemi's Nucky Thompson waged an interior battle between the businessman who ruled his head and the gangster he was at heart. Boardwalk Empire: a slow-burner with a fierce flame 2012-09-28T14:15:00Z "Ten percent to 20 percent of each of our monthly wages goes there for common expenses." Actress Matarazzo plans to wed longtime girlfriend 2011-07-26T10:04:08Z Bureaucracy may not immediately solve fair wages, but vegetable seeds may help communities when times are tough. 54 million people in the U.S. may go hungry during the pandemic — can urban farms help? 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z It was criminal wages for people we call criminals. Baratunde Thurston is making America love the outdoors again: "There's history in nature for us" 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z Workers need national minimum wage rises as part of a wholesale improvement to tackle employability and improve job market prospects. Price inflation: 5 ways stronger UK supply chains can help reduce rising food costs 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z They tell us it’s because they can’t find the staff, but the store saved about £1m on wages last year and they know we can get through it, even if it almost kills us. ‘The manager was selling coke to staff’: the truth about top restaurants 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z But beyond the food and flair of Vegas Uncork’d, many restaurant owners are dealing with new obstacles as millennials search for alternative food options and there is a growing push for a $15 minimum wage. Celebrity chefs Giada, Ramsay and Fieri on how industry can attract millennials, deal with wage hikes 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Cuts to state minimum wage investigative units have happened with almost no fanfare. The wage theft epidemic 2013-02-20T16:00:00Z The only catch was, Bonham was currently backing the singer Tim Rose, and making a decent wage out of it too. How Led Zeppelin came to be 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z The show even depicts the dancers’ low wages, the grimy corridors and inadequate changing rooms of the company’s new work base. Flesh and Bone: great dancing, shame about the plot 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Similar battles over educational “ideological bias” and the “negative aspects” of history have waged in Georgia and South Carolina. Oklahoma’s fight against AP history 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z |
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