STATE OF DISARRAY
Why wouldn’t California be in the midst of an economic debacle? Its high school dropouts get nearly three times the wages of a newly minted Ph.D. A Caltrans flag-waver earns $25 an hour; a new National Institutes of Health postdoc is paid $8.65 an hour; one with seven years’ experience gets $15.38 an hour.
Haven’t we received that for which we have paid?
ALAN M. SCHWARTZ
Irvine
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