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...What they often find, though, is hardship, privation, loneliness and exploitation. Although afforded some protection under American labor and civil rights laws, most illegals live in a shadow world of piecework and day jobs, just one step ahead of the INS and an unwanted ticket home. Whatever their country of origin, however, each illegal comes seeking the same thing: the good life in the good land...
...first 31 months of recovery; and this has been reflected in an equally slow reduction in unemployment -- down from 7.8% in June 1992 to 6.8% last month, but still far higher than normal for this stage of an expansion. But the unemployment rate is a grossly inadequate measure of hardship. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich estimates that in addition to the 8.8 million people officially counted as jobless, 1.2 million are so discouraged that they have quit looking for work and thus are no longer counted. The Bureau of Labor Statistics figures that as many as 6.2 million more would...
...lies with the 83% of systems that have fewer than 3,000 customers each but serve a total of 20 million Americans. These systems can't charge enough to pay for the necessary tests, and the law allows them an exemption from the rules if they can demonstrate economic hardship. That puts customers at risk...
...imaginativeadaptation of the novel Number 31328 by EliasVenezis, depicting the tortuous and devastatingmarch of a group of captives through the desert ofAsia Minor, immediately after its disaster.Transcending the historical chronicling fo theevent, the film is a fascinating evocation ofextermination and hardship of hundreds ofthousands of Greeks who, following the destructionof Smirna, left the lonian shores they hadinhabited for centuries. The film won two topprizes at the Cape Town Film Festival...
...this is beside the point, for part of the message of "The Joy Luck Club" is that men are not entirely at fault for women's hardship. Women must take an active role in their own lives, not by reducing men to stereotypes, but by asserting their own strength and vitality...