When were cost-of-living raises first worked into union contracts?
Cost-of-living raises, based on the U.S. cost-of-living index, were first negotiated into General Motors-United Auto Workers Union contracts in 1948.
Yogi Berra was born Lawrence Peter Berra in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1925. He joined the New York Yankees in 1946.
Richard M. Nixon’s running mate in 1960 was Henry Cabot Lodge.
Officially known as the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, the G.I. Bill gave a variety of benefits to World War II veterans. The benefits included medical care in veterans’ hospitals, low interest mortgages, grants for higher education, unemployment compensation, and vocational rehabilitation.
The “Mexican cession” was the territory Mexico called the “Far North,” including what are today California, Nevada, Utah, most of New Mexico and Arizona, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado. In return Mexico received $15 million, was set free of $3 million in American claims, and got rid of American forces occupying its capital. The…
In 1989, 76.9 percent of the U.S. population aged 25 and over has completed high school. Only 21.1 percent has completed college.
The average credit card holder in the U.S. owes $2,317 on credit cards, according to the Nilson Report, Santa Monica, California. About 60 percent of American adults own at least one credit card.