Blanchard et al. observe that flexibility achieved through (the Nordic model of) flexicurity namely a system that seeks to reconcile the managerial prerogative to hire and fire with the workers' need for security or, more bluntly, the protection of workers not jobs may be especially attractive in view of its comparative distributional implications.
The Senate measure includes more money than the president requested to help local police, firefighters and emergency workers, for port security and to fight bio-terrorism.
Now that the new security legislation is in place, federal authorities are preparing to assume responsibility for employing and training airport guards, a job that right now remains in the hands of undertrained and often poorly supervised workers for private security companies.
In Bangui, Farrow spoke to a health worker who, for security reasons, was no longer able to get to her job at the main hospital and was instead volunteering to treat women and children in a health centre in her community.
Those concerns were the focus of a Senate subcommittee hearing on Thursday, as senators grilled representatives of the U.S. government's personnel office over how closely contractors scrutinize prospective workers for high-security jobs.
For instance, a co-worker for hotel security guard Jesus Campos started an online fundraiser for him, but also had to report a second campaign that claimed to be raising funds for him.
In 1960, there were more than 5 workers for every Social Security beneficiary; today there are 3.3, and by 2030 the figure will be 2.
The owner told journalists it had been rented for a week from 10 to 17 November and that he had met three of the supposed occupants, who presented themselves as workers for a private security firm.
Today, there are barely three workers for every Social Security recipient, and the ratio is expected to continue to drop, reaching 2-to-1 in just 30 years.
In theory, the concept is simple: Those who are able to work will give a portion of their wages to those who are no longer able to work, which by today's numbers amounts to 2.8 workers for every Social Security beneficiary.
