Anti Wage-Slavery Pro-Freedom Quotations Of The Week 1367-1370

Protests by members of a relatively prosperous caste in India who want to be included in affirmative action programs highlight a major problem: India isn’t creating enough good jobs.
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The Patidar campaign, which is led by a 22-year-old firebrand named Hardik Patel, seeks a bigger slice of the economic pie. But no matter how officials decide to allot government quotas for the underprivileged, the main problem is that there is not enough pie to go around.
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It should come as no surprise that young Indians, especially those in the middle class like the Patels, are frustrated. Many have college degrees but still cannot land the kinds of professional jobs that they want….
India’s Middle-Class Revolt
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
New York Times
SEPT. 7, 2015 
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 Since the early 1970s, median pay has risen by only 8.7 percent, after adjusting for inflation, while productivity has grown by 72 percent. Since 2000, the gap has become even bigger, with pay up only 1.8 percent, despite productivity growth of 22 percent.
You Deserve a Raise Today. Interest Rates Don’t.
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
New York Times
SEPT. 7, 2015
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 Federal regulators said on Tuesday that Fiat Chrysler Automobiles had significantly underreported to regulators the number of death and injury claims linked to possible defects in its cars.
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In January, the Japanese automaker Honda agreed to pay $70 million in fines for failing to properly disclose to the government more than 1,700 deaths and injuries over an 11-year period.

That penalty was the largest ever imposed on an automaker by the safety agency — until Fiat Chrysler agreed to the penalties in July that could ultimately total $105 million.
Fiat Chrysler Concedes Violating Rule on Reporting Death and Injury Claims
By BILL VLASICSEPT. 29, 2015
New York Times

Europe's biggest automaker has admitted cheating in diesel emissions tests in the United States and Germany's transport minister said the company also manipulated them in Europe, where Volkswagen sells about 40 per cent of its vehicles.
Volkswagen to recall 11 million vehicles as emissions scandal expands
CBC News
Sep 29, 2015
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