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...luck wooing twentysomethings. In a 2000 Census study of which states attract the most young, single college grads, Iowa ranked 49th, flanked by the Dakotas (with the northern one coming in dead last). Since then, Iowa has spent millions courting businesses and sprucing up communities with arenas, museums and river walks, but Hawkeye Republicans think they have come up with a more effective inducement for young college grads: exempting residents under the age of 30 from state income taxes. An economic plan unveiled by G.O.P. state senators to do just that would reduce state coffers by an estimated $200 million...
...bombs that go off in Baghdad are manufactured in the relative quiet of an arc of Sunni tribal lands around the capital. That is the true heartland of the resistance, where it draws on massive weapons depots secreted in river valleys and deserts. The nationalist fighters who control the area supply Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi's networks with the ammo they use for their deadly operations, according to U.S. military intelligence. Even as more attacks took place last week in the run-up to the election--including mortar rounds on the U.S. embassy that killed two Americans--the Iraqi government...
...says NOAA drought specialist Douglas LeComte, it's too early to proclaim the long dry spell completely over. Snow is still scant in the northern Rockies and the Pacific Northwest, he notes, adding, "It will take more than one wet winter to refill the reservoirs along the Colorado River." --By J. Madeleine Nash
...Worker unrest is particularly rife in Guangdong, one of China's main industrial centers, where exports surged 24% to $190 billion?one-third of the national total?last year alone. Yet base assembly-line wages in the Pearl River Delta, the province's manufacturing belt, have been virtually frozen at about $80 per month for the past decade, according to a recent survey by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security. Factor in inflation over roughly the same period, and average pay in real terms has declined by as much as 30%. The reason: China's rise as a manufacturing...
...just as for oil and soybeans, the labor market is also subject to the rules of supply and demand?and the Pearl River Delta is facing a manpower shortage of 2 million workers, according to the Labor Ministry survey. Manufacturing capacity has expanded so rapidly in the past several years that the stream of migrants from the poor countryside is no longer large enough to replenish the labor pool. Rising agricultural incomes in recent years have started to keep many would-be migrant workers back on the farm...