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MATTHEW SLAUGHTER: There is something lost in the discussion about trying to identify the number of jobs lost to outsourcing. Counting jobs in these snapshots misses the point. Globalization for the U.S. economy continues to create very large gains, but those gains don't accrue to every single worker. There's too much focus [on] policy solutions for those directly impacted. Given the fluidity in the labor market, these pressures are really spread economywide...
Haley began her career at Harvard in 1965, working in dining halls that were then affiliated with Radcliffe. She switched to part-time work when her three children were born, but returned to work full-time in Currier in 1972, according to friend and fellow dining hall worker, Diane A. Freedman, who refers to Haley as the “front-of-the-house lady...
...blind. "It was depressing," she remembers. "We met kids who had been tied to a bed for years so they didn't hurt themselves. Some couldn't walk because their parents hadn't taught them." Appalled, Tenberken, with support from her Dutch partner Paul Kronenberg, a development aid worker she met in 1997 in a hostel in Lhasa (the capital of the remote Chinese autonomous region), rode to the rescue. She disentangled the reams of red tape the Tibetan authorities threw at her and finally, in May 1998, opened a boarding school for visually impaired children in Lhasa. "We faced...
...music is a substitute for the traditional drone of an organ, explains Lyzz K. Middaugh-Mote, 20, Pizzeria Regina worker and soon-to-be college student, who came to Boston from Minnesota last year and “church-hopped” for a while...
WHEN KEIS ISITFAN headed home from work one recent night, he had reason to watch his back. As a laundry worker for the U.S. embassy inside Baghdad's green zone, he risked being attacked by insurgents targeting Iraqis who work for the U.S. But there was another source of anxiety: Isitfan, 27, is a Christian and, like others of his faith, is facing growing hostility from hard-line Islamic groups who accuse Christians of being sympathetic to the Western occupiers...