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...sense." But the idea of governments getting involved with big subsidies for such schemes on a regular basis makes him shudder. "There will always be jobs that disappear, and in the long run it's not in our interest to keep them," Philpott says. In many places, in the current dire economic circumstances, that's no longer an argument that carries much weight...
...jobless rate back down again. But ask him about the German short-work measures, and he's skeptical. "They can't stop rising unemployment," he says, "they just delay it." Indeed, in its latest economic forecast released March 31, the OECD expects unemployment in Germany to rise from its current 8.6% to 11.6% by the end of 2010 - higher than many of its European neighbors - despite the special job-preservation measures. The organization expects Japan's unemployment rate will also rise, although less dramatically, to above 5.5% next year from...
...Sergeant Flores the way they needed to," she says. Though still in the Army, she has quit recruiting and returned to her former job as a supply sergeant at Fort Jackson. Because of the poor economy, she says, she plans to stay in uniform at least until her current enlistment is up in 2011. "Some days I say I've just got to go on," she says. "Other days I'll just sit and cry all day long...
...unnecessary requirements of being a recruiter here at home. Mark's story is a morality tale about another hidden cost of those wars--the toll on those trying to persuade others to serve. As Mark makes clear, we have to reform the way the Army finds new soldiers; the current system is unfair to both the recruiters and those they recruit...
...persistence in finding a battalion is also aimless and repetitive, and while this is undoubtedly a result of his mental trauma, Lind could have given Bachmann’s earlier history or perhaps more details about the onset of his condition in order to help the reader appreciate his current state. Towards the end of the novel, the otherworldly charm of the opening chapters gives way to a metallic surrealism, interspersed with forced philosophical conversations about the existence of God and what it means to be man. In some rare moments, Lind weaves a new kind of poetry, one blended...