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...world's poor tend to die prematurely and log more life-years spent ill or suffering or depressed also because they are more likely to live in dangerous neighborhoods, have limited access to clean drinking water, be forced to endure long, sometimes arduous commutes to work, labor in unsafe environments and have little representation in the governance of their local society. If you're about to lose your job, the effects of eating too many trans fats may not be high on your list of worries. "Behavior and lifestyle are determined by the circumstances in which people find themselves," Marmot...
...call to arms, the report is peppered with success stories: Marmot cites the national pension plan in Botswana, which shows that even poor nations manage to provide income security to their elderly; and an Indian rural employment guarantee, which assures workers a minimum number of days of paid manual labor for the state, demonstrating that the poor can still give workers some measure of job security. With better organization, the report authors believe, biological problems like infectious disease can also be brought under control through social policy. Mexico has in a matter of decades consigned widespread diarrheal diseases...
...China scholar David Kelly of the University of Technology, Sydney. "Chinese people want rights over what they buy and where they live," Kelly says, "and at the moment they can't find that through the courts." However, considerable progress has been made in the past two years in resolving labor disputes through the legal system, which could be a model for other issues such as property rights. Kelly argues that the Party could also cautiously allow the expansion of other rights that relate directly to people's daily lives, for example by changing the hukou household-registration system that makes...
...policies that make it possible for women to work at the same time as bearing children might make a difference, he says. The lifting of restrictions on immigration for able workers could also help. "Countries like England, Ireland and Sweden, which are seeing population increases, have a relatively open labor market while Germany still makes it difficult for people to immigrate," says Kroehnert. In Britain, however, the projections have triggered calls for tighter immigration controls...
...some friends figured I'd sold my soul by going to Time, committing weekly journalism instead of writing essays and books, Manny said he thought my Time stuff was better, freer and more concentrated. I suspect his comments on Agee and me spoke to an admiration for workmanlike salaried labor, whether done by carpenters, bottom-rung gangsters, tanktown vaudevillians, Poverty Row directors or movie critics. To him, Agee's and my "little magazine" essays were white elephants, our Time stories termites...