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Sticking his back to a wooden seat at home and letting his fingers run on the keyboard has become a regular affair to my friend despite no job except idling. I one day asked out of interest as to what keeps him so engaged and I got an astonishing...
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The Otago Daily Times reported recently that the pay packets of the New Zealand’s 22,000 meat workers will be thousands of dollars lighter this year with their...
made popular Jan 20 2011
Tunis, Tunisia (CNN) — A day after the Tunisian president indicated that he wouldn’t run again, people peacefully took to the streets in tense North African...
made popular Jan 14 2011
Tunisia’s government has ordered the closure of all schools and universities until further notice, amid clashes between police and demonstrators protesting over...
made popular Jan 11 2011
There are a lot of similarities between the Somali pirates and South African society.
made popular Nov 22 2010
At a state project to refurbish a decaying building in Old Havana, one worker paints a wall white while two others watch. A fourth sleeps in a wheelbarrow positioned in...
made popular Jul 20 2010
The national leader of the Labor Party, Alberto Anaya, deeply regrets the unemployment recorded in Mexico.
Drug trafficking is serious business, it is a serious...
made popular Jun 26 2010
“This is the last frontier of tourism in southern Africa,” said our guide as I gasped and wheezed my way up Thaba Bosiu, meaning “mountain of the...
made popular Jun 7 2010
Cairo, Nile View from Zamalek roof top
It might be the overwhelming crowdedness, traffic and congestion. The low pay and the high prices..the provocative PSA’s...
made popular May 31 2010
The Senate easily passed an almost $60 billion war funding bill Thursday, but anxiety over out-of-control budget deficits led House leaders to drop tens of billions of...
made popular May 28 2010
I would like to quote a story and two events. A King had all the luxuries a man could ask for; he died due to depression. His depression was because he could not do...
made popular May 17 2010
Recently released figures show New Zealand’s unemployment rate fell from more than 7 per cent to 6 per cent in the March quarter. The drop defied the expectations...
made popular May 10 2010
Spanish unemployment has hit 20% in a country not long ago seen as the emerging economic powerhouse of Europe. But Spain has fallen greatly during the economic...
made popular May 2 2010
A record number of U.S. homes were lost to foreclosure in the first three months of this year, a sign banks are starting to wade through the backlog of troubled home...
made popular Apr 15 2010
The farmers are committing suicide and youth is getting attracted towards naxalism or getting derailed. In such situation what should be done to involve majority of the...
made popular Apr 13 2010
Unemployment has emerged as one of the biggest problems facing refugees as they attempt to build a new life in Brisbane.
Support groups who receive Federal Government...
made popular Apr 8 2010
A long civil war, frequent droughts, unemployment and high food prices have led to an increase in the number of street children in Bosasso, the commercial capital of...
made popular Mar 10 2010
Some 2,000 construction workers building road projects across the US have been sent home after a senator blocked a bill to extend payments.
Republican Jim Bunning...
made popular Mar 2 2010
Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Wednesday that jobs and reducing poverty will be his top two priorities in 2010, while the fight against drug cartels that...
made popular Jan 7 2010
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“Am I to be blamed for the recession?” This must be the question raging in the minds of many unemployed educated youth here in India. This is the situation in...
made popular Dec 30 2009
The product of French racism and obtuse labor law.
Racism is present in every society, and French racism against Arabs is ubiquitous; but the setting in which it...
made popular Dec 28 2009
Johnny R. Williams, 30, would appear to be an unlikely person to have to fret about the impact of race on his job search, with companies like JPMorgan Chase and an...
made popular Dec 2 2009
Nowadays “terrorism” is the biggest problem in front of whole world. To solve this problem country like U.S.A ,China, U.K and Russia including India making...
made popular Nov 30 2009
In Argentina, a street demonstration is more than a political act – it’s a profession.
Ever since the country’s economic crisis of the late 1990s, unemployed...
made popular Nov 26 2009
You know there’s a serious economic crisis when remittances which historically have been sent from the United States to Mexico suddenly shift gears and begin...
made popular Nov 26 2009
These days, 24-year-old Delonta Spriggs spends much of his time cooped up in his mother’s one-bedroom apartment in Southwest Washington, the TV blaring soap...
made popular Nov 24 2009
The rice has been harvested, the chaff burned. It’s time for planting winter wheat, seed sunk deep into new furrow, as white birds with razor beaks land on fields...
made popular Nov 24 2009
During the best of the times, Miguel Salcedo’s son, an illegal immigrant in San Diego, would be sending home hundreds of dollars a month to support his struggling...
made popular Nov 17 2009
The Household Labour Force survey has show that Maori unemployment has increased drastically from 9.6 percent to 14.2 percent in the past year, representing10,000 job...
made popular Nov 17 2009
No one knows if one-year old Yunus will ever see his mother again. Like six million other Indonesians, she traveled far from home to find employment. She was hired by a...
made popular Nov 12 2009
This post asks why the Arab world is so backwards, not Arabs. So for those looking for a racist post attacking Arabs, go somewhere else.
While Arabs are, of course,...
made popular Nov 9 2009
Many people around the world have been cursed with cringe-inducing names (as this BBC story proves). Some, however, are more unfortunate than others.
On last...
made popular Oct 28 2009
California has a special place in the American psyche. It is the Golden State: a playground of the rich and famous with perfect weather. It symbolises a lifestyle of...
made popular Oct 5 2009
In morgues across the country the corpses of dead poor are stacking up as the the government runs out of money to bury them. State and county budgets for interring...
made popular Oct 2 2009
As part of the Huffington Post’s efforts to bear witness to the effects of the current economic environment on ordinary Americans, we’re rounding up some of...
made popular Sep 30 2009
As world leaders converge in Pittsburgh for a major economic summit this week, one of the biggest questions they face is this: How do you begin to replace the millions...
made popular Sep 25 2009
Last week’s deadly rioting that resulted after the central government refused the king of Buganda, Uganda’s largest ethnic group from traveling to one of his...
made popular Sep 23 2009
The last depression the U.S. went through was in 1930’s, and it was part of huge global downturn.
From a Market update newsletter from Sprott Asset Management,...
made popular Sep 22 2009
It’s late morning and Minara Khatoon’s five young children haven’t eaten yet. They sit huddled on the dirt floor of their mud thatch hut, waiting as...
made popular Sep 21 2009
When the best job Mikala Reasbeck could find after college in Boston was counting pills part-time in a drugstore for $7 an hour, she took the drastic step of jumping on...
made popular Sep 21 2009
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A woman walks past a job centre, in west London, Wednesday, March 18, 2009. Unemployment in Britain rose to 6.5 percent in the three months ending in January, with the number of people out of work reaching its highest in 12 years, the government said...
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