>Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 15:52:28 -0400 >From: 32 HOURS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >MIME-Version: 1.0 >To: 32 HOURS: Action for Full Employment <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: US Economic Miracle -- For Some > >Today's Wall Street Journal provides a special report on the latest in >corporate excess. Disney's Michael Eisner wins, with total compensation >of $575.6 million in 1998, even though Disney's total shareholder return >was - 5%. CEOs are making a killing whether or not their companies >perform, while average workers are struggling to return to 1973 real >wage levels. > >On the front page of the same WSJ issue, there's a story of a woman from >Kentucky who's given $900 to get out of town to find a job. She's one of >the people for whom the clock is ticking now that there's a five-year >lifetime limit for receiving welfare. She ends up in Cincinatti, with a >string of dead-end jobs, dreams of more work hours to get by, and >occasionally relies on picking through garbage with her 11 year-old son >to make ends meet. Such is the American economic miracle. >
