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...solution Park divined was to hitch South Korea's future to an expanding global economy. The country used its cheap labor force to manufacture necessities like shoes and clothing to sell to consumers in the developed world, particularly those in the U.S. The strategy proved wonderfully efficient. It attracted investment capital, generated factory jobs for impoverished farmers, established infrastructure to supercharge commercial development and otherwise produced wealth that South Korea could never have generated by itself. Eager to raise living standards in their own countries, Asian policymakers and business people latched on to that formula. The economies of South Korea...
...villagers of Nazi spoke of a regime that conscripted them as forced labor and made them pay prohibitive taxes or buy expensive business licenses that robbed them of any chance at economic mobility. Because they are not considered citizens of Burma, they cannot work in the public sector as teachers or soldiers or doctors. Nor can they attend university in Arakan's capital, Sittwe, where communal violence between Buddhists and Muslims flared eight years ago. The villagers' tone when describing their plight was matter-of-fact, as if they were complaining of a rainstorm or a bad case of influenza...
...save Harvard jobs. While the University has not officially announced employee layoffs, budgetary cutbacks are expected to result in job losses for workers employed through subcontractors. The protests in New York were organized in collaboration with the “No Layoffs” campaign organized by the Student Labor Action Movement on campus, according to Alyssa M. Aguilera ’08-’09, an active member of SLAM and an inactive Crimson editorial writer. “[The campaign] was initiated by alumni in order to show solidarity and express that alums are watching the layoff...
...regulations governing Wall Street. With his good friend Ted Kennedy sidelined with brain cancer, Dodd has stepped in to help take a lead role on health-care reform. In fact, at one point earlier this year, before the Inauguration, Dodd was de facto chairman of Kennedy's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee as well as Joe Biden's Foreign Relations Committee...
...reminds voters of Dodd's problems with Countrywide, and fairly or not, it makes him the face of two deeply unpopular bailouts of Wall Street and an only slightly less unpopular stimulus plan. All of which may explain why Dodd is spending so much time on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee these days. After all, enacting universal health care ahead of the 2010 elections could be the best cure for what ails...