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...Relief workers are an easy target. To build trust with locals, they typically refuse to carry weapons or seek military protection. "Aid workers cannot sit like soldiers in armored cars," says Brendan Cox, a spokesman for the British aid group Oxfam. "That would undermine the reason we are there." To improve security, many organizations in Iraq are requiring workers to travel in groups and maintain radio contact with headquarters. Red Cross reps in Jerusalem have held secret meetings with members of Palestinian militant groups to ensure the safety of workers. Often, the only option is to scale back operations...
...True relief will come when the unemployment rate starts to fall. That will probably take another quarter or two, as job growth typically lags GDP expansion. So far this has been a jobless recovery. Since the recession started in March 2001, the U.S. economy has shed 2.7 million jobs. The Administration would like to hit a target set by some private-sector forecasters to create 200,000 jobs a month, but it has been wary of making its own forecasts. In recent years spikes in the growth rate have faded. Economists expect this year's fourth quarter to cool...
...WORKERS: Targeted more, relief groups ponder cuts...
...Increase in giving to international relief groups...
...opponents this year, which is a badge of honor in these days of furiously massaged political messages. He has supported free trade and school vouchers, and he has excoriated Hollywood for its excesses. Leave aside the wisdom of these positions; his willingness to take them stands in stark relief to, say, the candidacy of John Kerry, who has claimed "courage" as his theme and managed to take not a single inconvenient or unfudged position on any issue in this campaign. It also stands in contrast to Dean's furious backpedaling from earlier and wiser positions on old-age-entitlement reform...