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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 2003
Page
31
Over twenty years stay at home fathers rose 70 percent per census data. Live-out nannies cost 8 to 15 dollars an hour while live-in workers 400 to 800 dollars a week. Day-care annual costs range from 4000 to 10000 dollars, plus Social Security Medicare employer share.
A 356 executive survey shows 62 percent judge accepting a new post by compensation and spousal approval, while only 19 percent cite firm stability. Separately a consumer survey finds home PCs rival TV for leisure with 90 percent using PCs daily and 70 percent deeming them integral.
In Douglas Georgia a wave of plant closures leaves 535 workers jobless. Ex-worker Lewis Burkett observes similar shifts in Cuauhtemoc Mexico where workers earn eight dollars a day for tasks once paid eleven an hour in Georgia. Community leaders and retraining programs grapple with an uncertain future as Tecumseh Product Co ends its Douglas engine plant and locals seek new options.
The U S job losses since 2001 include 2.4 million manufacturing positions, hitting rural areas hard. Douglas Georgia, with 10 600 residents, hosts a Wal Mart distribution center and brick plants as locals struggle with a 1 700 attendee July job fair amid widespread layoffs and low educational attainment. Leaders seek new job opportunities to replace manufacturing closures.
Scott Kirwin and Kevin Sherman, American tech workers, describe training Indian replacements under the L-1 visa system. They stayed on through layoffs to secure severance or new jobs, accepting pay cuts as they tutored foreign hires to take over their duties.
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