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...They’re just kids who are passionate about the election,” said Carolyn Payne Lomax, a Bush worker from Waco, Texas, who has been in New Hampshire for 12 days. She pointed to Yale and the University of New Hampshire as other sources of student volunteers...
...Daily wage for an opium laborer in Afghanistan, twice the average pay for an unskilled worker in the country
Today Santiago tailors her work and professional life around SM. She doesn’t apply for jobs that don’t know of her sexual preference. A social worker, she has made a career at La Red, a domestic violence support center. In her spare time, she volunteers at NELA, organizing meetings with doctors, police officers and social workers—anyone who might be likely to come into contact with BDSM and not know what it is—where she explains that SM relationships are usually consensual, not forms of domestic violence or abuse...
...keep it undervalued against the U.S. dollar, thereby making its exports cheaper than Bangladesh's. But even if its currency were to rise against the dollar, China would still have tremendous advantages. According to data compiled in a recent International Monetary Fund working paper, the average Chinese garment-industry worker was paid $1,600 in 2001, more than double his Indian counterpart's salary and four times what he'd make in Bangladesh. Despite the Chinese worker's higher pay, the study found his productivity was significantly higher: he adds $5,000 a year in value to the garments...
Both Akther and Maksuda work for suppliers of Wal-Mart. Sk Nazma, president of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity and a former factory worker, spoke after Akther and Maksuda. Nazma repeatedly called for “solidarity and support” for the 1.8 million workers that the organization represents...