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Wages and Working Conditions in the Restaurant Business
The restaurant business employs one out of every 12 workers in the private sector. We hear about wages and working conditions in the dining room and the kitchen.
By Warren Olney • • 49m ListenIt takes a lot of people to get your breakfast, lunch or dinner at any restaurant, and the restaurant business employs one out of every 12 workers in the private sector. We hear about wages and working conditions in the dining room and the kitchen. We even go to a class for waiters. Also, public health and personal property on LA's downtown Skid Row. On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, President Obama and the new world of cyber warfare and espionage.
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3 storiesHealth Conditions on LA's Skid Row
Last year, Federal Judge Philip Gutierrez ordered the LAPD to stop seizing what looked like abandoned property on the sidewalks of Skid Row. That gave homeless people a chance to leave their belongings outside while they went inside for food, showers or social services.
Read the story8 minHave You Eaten Out Lately?
Americans spend 49 percent of their food budgets in restaurants, compared to 25 percent in 1955. The restaurant industry's growing fast, and it employs one out of every 12 private-sector workers. Los Angeles is one of the country's biggest markets for eating out.
Read the story19 minCyberwarfare in the Era of Stuxnet and Flame
President Obama picked up the unmanned drone program where George W. Bush left off. He has also vastly expanded the use of cyber-weapons by ordering the Stuxnet attacks that partly disabled Iran's nuclear program.
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