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Grocery store workers earn an average of $332 a week, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, compared with average weekly earnings of $529 for all workers in the private sector. But some baggers don't even make $300, because they are paid only in tips. But according to Jill Cashen, spokesperson for the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, grocery store jobs, when unionized, can be stable enough to support a family. "From baggers up to meat department managers," Cashen says, "workers can look at their union grocery jobs as career positions that provide financial security...
...encouraged that activity at the very high end of the L.A. market hasn?t fallen off, that home prices in the county overall continue to rise and that job growth is "pretty good." Still, even he admits that the subprime crash has plunged the entire real estate sector into uncharted territory. "Will it create a flood of foreclosures that drags down values in the rest of the market? So far it hasn't, but at some point, it might...
...restless than girls under the discipline of high school and more likely to wind up in jail? A growing congregation of writers have begun to argue that the trouble with boys is mostly a myth. Sara Mead is one; she was until recently a senior policy analyst at Education Sector, a Washington think tank largely funded by the Gates Foundation. Intrigued by the wave of books and articles about failing boys, Mead crunched some numbers, focusing narrowly on the question of school performance. The former Clinton Administration official concluded that "with a few exceptions, American boys are scoring higher...
...like Barnett warn that ill-prepared or poorly directed volunteers can produce more harm than good. Voluntourists have gone to her complaining about groups that repeated projects already finished by earlier crews or did work considered at odds with the local people's desires. With new companies entering a sector that is still largely unregulated, tour operators sometimes take advantage of even the best-intentioned volunteers, Barnett explains. "It's a new form of colonialism, really," she says. "The market is geared toward profit rather than the needs of the communities." Tourism Concern is developing a code of ethical conduct...
...blowout. Even in the City, London's fiercely competitive financial center, the number of new jobs is set to slip by two-thirds this year, according to the capital's Centre for Economics and Business Research. But despite the doom and gloom, there's still room enough for specialist sectors to grow handsomely. London's leading share of international markets means Britain's financial services sector should still grow by 4.7% this year, according to Ernst & Young. And that will surely make it into the Chancellor's speech...