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...while youth unemployment is high, more telling to Sum are youth employment numbers, which show that less than 1 out of every 3 teens currently has a job, the lowest number since 1948. This statistic helps explain why Sum thinks the program isn't going far enough. Sure, $1.2 billion and hundreds of thousands of jobs sound huge, but it will bring teen unemployment down only a few percentage points - and only for a few months at that. If the point of a summer-jobs program is partly to train the uninitiated in the ways of the working world...
...Many people have long assumed that health-care reform would be a cure for overburdened EDs. But while a growing number of uninsured Americans are getting medical care that way, they are not the major reason EDs are becoming standing-room only; uninsured patients make up less than 20% of ED populations, and the number of uninsured ED patients is growing at a slower rate than that of patients with private or public insurance. Instead, the culprits of ED overcrowding are many of the same ones contributing to the entire health system's woes. Among them: insured patients who come...
...year, her agency found jobs for 100 refugees. In the same period this year, only 28 found work. In 2007, the agency considered 80% of the refugees settled by her office to be self-sufficient. This year, so far, it's just 10%. At the same time, the annual number of Iraqi refugees is growing. Just 202 were admitted in 2006; this year could see an influx of as many as 17,000. (Read a story about how the U.S. removed the hurdles that Iraqi refugees face entering...
...released on Tuesday, gave India a Tier 2 rating for the sixth consecutive year, citing that India has not been able to suppress human trafficking, "particularly bonded labor." According to a 2001 census, an estimated 185, 595 children are employed as domestic help and in small roadside eateries, a number that is believed to have grown today. Most child domestic workers in India are trafficked by placement agencies operating in poor states like Orissa, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. The agencies pay families in advance for their children and then place them at jobs in cities, tying the child...
...Ahead of the Beijing Olympics last year environmental officials came under harsh criticism that they were tweaking pollution data to artificially raise the number of so-called "blue sky" days when emissions fall below official targets. American environmental consultant Steven Q. Andrews accused the government of switching to monitoring stations in lower pollution areas, changing the makeup of the air pollution index to focus on less prevalent pollutants, and reporting a disproportionately large number of days with pollution measurements just below the "blue sky" cutoff. Du Shaozhong, the deputy head of the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau, denied the allegations...