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...Canada, the boat people can thank private organizations and individuals who responded to the crisis. "Per capita, Canada did as much as or more than other countries because so many people decided it was the right thing to do," says Kirk Bell, executive director of immigration for Ottawa's Federal Ministry of Employment and Immigration...
Although it is the poorest nation in the Community-per capita income is roughly $4,000 a year-Greece now is far from being destitute. Real growth since 1973 has averaged more than 3%, a better track record than that of most Western European countries; unemployment last year was just...
...monolithic, underestimating domestic factors that make Western unity unrealistic on schemes like shared stockpiles and mutual demand cutbacks. It seems vague in detailing what policies the U.S. can employ to pacify OPEC nations and forestall another use of their potent oil weapon. And its prescription for per-capita tax rebates of windfall profits tax revenues, though seemingly equitable, would crush low-income families required to use cars to get to work...
...comparison with other East bloc nations, Polish life was seemingly not all that bad. The average wage ($200 a month) and per capita meat consumption (152 lbs. a year) were surpassed only in East Germany and Czechoslovakia. Private hard-currency bank accounts were legal, passports were relatively easy to obtain and the state provided the usual panoply of Communist benefits: guaranteed jobs, free medical care, factory-sponsored vacations. But this was not enough. Poles were tired of standing in endless lines: for meat, flour, sugar and other staples. They were tired of shoddy, overpriced goods, when they could...
...most effective campaign tactic was during the debate with President Carter when he looked at the television camera and asked the American people: "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?" The answer was mostly no. Last year alone, the average real disposable income per capita fell an estimated...