There is less to be said for the outdated social safety net, which manages both to be stingy and to discourage work.
Compounding matters is the fact that these jobs are largely uncovered by an outdated social safety net, created decades ago as a last resort in an era when most men could expect lifetime jobs.
The Senate's failure to pass a bill that would require background checks for gun buyers has inspired Senator Frank R. Lautenberg, Democrat of New Jersey, to take a final shot at revamping the nation's outdated chemical safety laws, John M. Broder writes.
Once a reliable visual marker of neighborhood borders — no guards, some surmised, implied there was no need for guards — many bars have been casualties of an aesthetics-driven calculation, as families brush aside what they view as outdated home safety concerns.
The American Public Health Association, a member of the Make Our Food Safe coalition, celebrated the bill, which, it writes, "will finally begin to address the dangerous gaps in our nation's woefully outdated food safety system".
The accident that flooded the Quecreek Mine in Pennsylvania last summer, trapping nine miners whose televised rescue riveted the nation, could have been avoided if the mining companies had realized they were using outdated maps, federal safety investigators said today.
Neither is able to develop bipartisan legislation to deal with a slew of urgent social problems, from immigration and the minimum wage to the strengthening of outdated health and safety laws.
