Veterans Across America Face Stumbling Blocks and Delays as They Seek to Access Their Healthcare, Disability, Education and Job Training.
'Voices for Change,' a 55-Page Report Compiled by AMVETS, Contains Specific Recommendations for Reform Proposed by Veterans From Across the Country WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Growing numbers of veterans, including younger ones, are facing medical problems, financial hardships, unemployment and, in some cases, homelessness, because the...

`Underground' notes; Skirting of state hiring laws focus of forum.
Byline: Lisa Eckelbecker WORCESTER - Employers who skirt the law by paying workers under the table or improperly treating them as contractors make up a significant part of the construction and trades industry, making it harder and more costly for law-abiding union and nonunion businesses to survive,...

"The facts which go to form this fiction": Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The Silent Partner and the Massachusetts Bureau of Labor Statistics Reports.
Although not widely taught, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's powerful novel of industrial privation and upper-class privilege, The Silent Partner (1871), is beginning to have considerable importance for students of American literature and society. Phelps's gritty urban verisimilitude has helped revise narratives of the rise of literary realism in the USA,...

Frances Perkins and the German-Jewish Refugees, 1933-1940.
Shall we refuse the unhappy fugitives from distress that hospitality which the savages of the wilderness extended to our forefathers arriving in this land? Shall oppressed humanity find no asylum on this globe? Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address(1) When President Roosevelt appointed Frances Perkins as...

Employment-related crimes.
This article surveys the criminal penalties currently available to protect workers in the areas of occupational safety and employment practices. Under the worker safety section, the Occupational Safety and Health Act ("OSHA")(1) is discussed in detail. As a supplement to these materials, the proposed bill(2) designed to reform OSHA is...

Employment-related crimes.
I. Worker Safety 456 A. Occupational Safety and Health Act 456 1. Elements of the Offense 456 a. Employer 456 b. Civil violation 457 c. Criminal violation 458 2. Preemption 459 3. Penalties 459 B. Federal Mine Safety and Health Act 462 C. State Criminal Law 463 1. Effectiveness...

The president's apprentices.
Vocational education's failing grades America's "forgotten youth," the three quarters of high school students who never complete college, are forgotten no longer. They are now the focus of vigorous White House attention and one of the trendiest movements in education circles: "school-to-work transition" programs. This upsurge of interest...

Charlestown Man Sentenced for Selling Cocaine, Reports U.S. Attorney.
BOSTON, Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- A Charlestown man was sentenced in federal court for distribution of cocaine in Charlestown. United States Attorney Donald K. Stern announced that CHRISTOPHER THORNTON, age 36, formerly residing in Charlestown, but most recently residing at 34 Dalton Road, Chelmsford, Massachusetts,...

Ridge Administration Seeks Nominations for Champions of Older Workers.
HARRISBURG, Pa., April 23 /PRNewswire Interactive News Release/ -- On behalf of Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, Secretary of Aging Richard Browdie and Labor and Industry Secretary Johnny J. Butler today announced that their respective departments are accepting nominations for the 17th annual Hall of Fame of Champions...

Enhancing a curriculum: a focus on the development process.
Many academic departments, concerned with providing curricula that are both current and targeted to student and employer needs, are tailoring their curricula to target specific skill sets. This in turn generates students who graduate more prepared to assume positions being demanded by employers. Curriculum development includes changing content and...