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This sort of assistance can be implemented in a variety of ways: investment in sub-par school systems; enrichment programs that teach students skills like writing and organization and provide SAT preparation; and initiatives like Teach for America that get Harvard graduates out into high schools to innovate school systems. Low-income students also need adequate college counseling and test preparation, advocacy for better implementation of educational legislation, and the overall academic base to which so many of them do not have access. If the College undertakes these efforts, their work will not necessarily breed a new line...
...imports not just the gizmos and gadgets but also a way of life, thanks to a shadow labor force that lets Americans eat out once a week because restaurants can hire dishwashers for sub-minimum wage. The U.S. depends on the maids and gardeners and carpenters and home-health-care workers whose children will probably become teachers and technicians and surgeons and Senators. If they all put down their tools tomorrow, the U.S. wouldn't be arguing about whether it is in a recession...
...fishing off the Guinea coast. Greenpeace, which is working with the London-based lobby group Environmental Justice Foundation on the illegal fishing issue, estimates that pirate fishing is worth between $4 billion and $9 billion a year-or around 20% of the world's fish catch. Illegal fishing in sub-Saharan Africa alone is worth some $1 billion a year, according to the environmentalists...
...access to HIV therapy. Begun in 2003, the "3 by 5" initiative--to provide antiretroviral treatment to 3 million people in low- and middle-income countries by the end of 2005--missed its target numbers. A total of 1.3 million received treatment, and the largest improvements being made in Sub-Saharan Africa where 700,000 more people gained access to treatment in the past two years. The WHO has said that the lessons learned from the "3 by 5" strategy will aid in its new goal to provide universal access to HIV treatment by 2010. "The headlines will probably read...
...chart [3/20/06] on page six of the Washington Post about what it costs to do 10 cents worth of roofing in New Orleans? It's a chart that says the U.S. government pays $1.75 to the contractor who hires a subcontractor, who hires a sub-subcontractor, who pays a person 10 cents. So you're currently paying $1.75 in your taxes to get 10 cents of roofing...