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These countries face far more chronic unemployment than the U.S., and double-digit jobless rates are common even in good years. Roughly half of those on the dole have been out of work for more than a year, as opposed to 6% in the U.S. The social-protection system designed to help people through the rough patches "suddenly is needed massively and for a long time by millions of jobless," says Lothar Stock, who heads a social-welfare organization in Frankfurt. "The system cannot cope with these new conditions...
...1980s produced millions of "working poor" in service jobs and cost low-skilled workers a 20% drop in the real wages. Europe, through its high minimum wages and other rules, saw a rise in real pay for those lucky enough to have jobs -- at the price of chronic unemployment for the unskilled. It is beginning to look like a trade-off that is no longer affordable, or acceptable...
Members of the battalion developed large red blotches on their hands and arms. Within a week, Kay felt tired almost all the time. Since then he has suffered chronic diarrhea, aches in all his joints and has difficulty breathing -- symptoms that have bedeviled many of the Seabees who served with Kay in the Persian Gulf. "These guys have been miserable for the past two years, and they weren't having any of these problems before that," says Charles Jackson, a physician at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Tuskegee, Alabama. Last month, after running many tests on Kay and researching...
...amount of improved management will make up for the shortfall in money. The lack of resources is chronic: this year's estimated $3.2 billion peacekeeping budget is more than $1 billion in arrears. Congress has just cut the U.S. share of new bills from nearly one-third to one-fourth. The shortage of funds results from a lack of political will. "Somalia was reality therapy for the international community," says the U.N.'s Annan. "Intellectually we were ready for it. Emotionally we were...
...three years in and out of prison on a drug charge and subsequent parole violations. "That was the key to my whole life," he once said. Snoop, now one of the most wanted new stars of gangsta rap, provided a good part of the lyrics and vocals on The Chronic, a 2 million-selling album by Dr. Dre, who pleaded no contest in June to battery for breaking...