1 -1 The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, December 10, 1986-- Page 5 Most new jobs from '79 to '84 pay under $7,000, study says WASHINGTON (AP) - More than half the 8 million net new jobs created between 1979 and 1984 in the United States paid less than $7,000 a year while the number of jobs paying $28,000 or more actually fell, according to a new study. The report, released yesterday by the outgoing and new Democratic chairmen of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, also said the middle-income share of job growth dropped from 64.2 percent in the 1970s to 47.5 percent in the early 1980s. The two authors of the study - Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrision, political economy professors at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, respectively - said the proliferation of low-wage jobs points to growing income inequality in the United States. "If this pattern of development continues," they said, "the standard of living of a growing proportion of the American workforce will be significantly jeopardized.". Citing Census Bureau employ - ment and wage data, and using changes in the Consumer Price Index to account for inflation, the authors said they arbitrarily divided workers into three income categories: -Low, with incomes below $4,900 in 1979 and $7,012 in 1984. -Middle, with incomes between $4,900 and $19,600 in 1979 and between $7,012 and $28,048 in 1984. -High, with incomes above $19,600 in 1979 and $28,068 in 1984. "Nearly three-fifths of the net new employment generated between 1979 and 1984 was low-wage, compared with less than, one-fifth during the preceding (1973-79) period," the report said. The report said low-wage employment increased by 4,687,000 between 1979 and 1984 while middle-income employment rose by 3,837,000. 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University Vice President and Chief Financial Officer James Brinkerhoff would not comment on whether the University's policy is socially responsible. But he said University officials believe the University, as an educational institution, should be open to all opinions, instead of endorsing one stance. This belief often manifests itself in campus controversies, such as when-the regents in 1985 upheld the rights of University faculty to engage in research for the Reagan Administration's Strategic Defense Initiative. Student activists have repeatedly protested SDI research on campus. According to Brinkerhoff, the investment policy was changed from the previous policy of voting with management in all resolutions, for the same reason: The University as an institution should not consistently support one side of a debate, but merely abstain. Among the resolutions the University abstained from last year: -A proposal for Exxon to stop oil mining in Chile. Proponents felt money paid by the corporation to the Chilean government help prop up the dicatatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet; -A proposal asking Eastman Kodak to set up a committee considering the ethics of doing SDI research. The corporation is involved in optics research to develop laser technology for the project; -A proposal asking AT&T to cancel its contract with the Sandio Laboratories in New Mexico. The laboratories, run by the AT&T subsidiary Western Electric, develops warheads for the Department of Defense; and, *Proposals to Exxon, the Robert SMorris Corp., and J.P. Morgan and Company Inc., to pay employees according to comparable worth. Many companies have been urged to raise salaries in fields traditionally dominated by women to the level of "comparable" fields that have been dominated by men. POLICE NOTES Shipman and his colleagues will determine if the new drugs are safe. 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