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...second job to make ends meet, since they can't afford to live in the city they protect. The same city where sweatshops thrive in Chinatown, immigrant Mexican help has been grossly underpaid by immigrant Korean deli owners, and immigrant African deliverymen had been getting $1.25 per hour at unionized Manhattan supermarkets (relying on tips) until authorities finally stepped in. "Wal-Mart's values are not New York's values," proclaimed Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union/UFCW. You got that right. Wal-Mart's regulations stipulate that every employee be paid for every minute worked...
...honestly think that the current suicide rate among teens (8 or so per 100,000 among older teens) is about to return any time soon to its 1950s level-2.7 per 100,000? Do you find estimates of 2 million annual suicide attempts among American teens to be encouraging...
...numbers are a one-year blip in a long-term trend, and they are hardly "dramatic." "For youth aged 14-19 the suicide rate increased by 11%, from 7.3 per 100,000 to 8.2 per 100,000." That's less than one extra death in 100,000. And please note that 8.2 per 100,000 is still lower than the rate of 8.5 per...
Number of murders per every 100,000 people in Nevada, which has been ranked, for the fourth year in a row, as the state with the highest murder rate in the country. The national average...
...sight of the tiny Pacific nation's internationally famous resorts with their manicured grounds, picture-postcard beaches and beaming staff, a swathe of desperate humanity resides in flimsy and illegally built shanties, without sewerage, running water, electricity or garbage disposal. This mainly Indo-Fijian underclass represents more than 10 per cent of the country's 900,000 population. A third of them have no income at all; four out of five lack the means to provide three meals a day for their families...