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...He’s kind of jobless, so I guess he’s got to do something for the next four years,” she joked...
...this law and not a single Arab among all the country's mayors," laments conservative politician and civil rights activist Zaïr Kedadouche. "France is broken." Consider these signs of fracture: unemployment in the banlieue often runs at more than double the national level of 9.7%, and the jobless rate among banlieue youths with a college or vocational diploma is four times higher than it is among those from more affluent areas. Resignation and hopelessness have sent criminal activity and incivility soaring, and the banlieues' physical isolation makes them islands of anger, apathy and pain. "I've seen guys...
...JOBLESS RECOVERY Yes, there's record productivity growth, but why are so many ex-investment bankers still working...
There are practical reasons to think Saddam's capture may help quell the resistance. For one thing, even if Saddam's leadership was not central to the insurgency, his money likely was. Many of the resistance fighters the U.S. has picked up were essentially mercenaries, former criminals or jobless men who were paid to strike U.S. forces. His arrest increases the chance that Iraqis will feel safe to turn in other insurgents, as happened after the siege that ended in the deaths of Uday and and Qusay...
...commuter deduction - from 40? per km to 30? - has big carmakers seething. "It's definitely not positive for the car industry," said Thomas Mickeleit, spokesman for Volkswagen. On the plus side, Harald Grunert, who owns three restaurants, said he thinks the Chancellor's plan to cut long-term jobless benefits - and force the unemployed to take any offered job - will make it easier for him to find staff. Now comes the hard part: convincing Germans worried about losing their jobs to open their wallets. Through The 3-G Looking Glass The emergence of third-generation (3-G) mobile-phone services...