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...says Thomas Brown, whose hedge fund Second Curve Capital specializes in financial firms. "We asked for the $700 billion, and we asked for capital purchases of bank shares. Now we have a case where if banks don't get approved for this money, they may not be able to stay in business...
...once kids become parents themselves, they face the same choice their parents did. When Baby Diaz was in elementary school, her mother and father moved to Italy to work. When she was 18, her four siblings did, too. The family supported her while she stayed in Manila to go to university, but she says the feeling of being deserted has never left her. Now 27, with a good local job as a bank teller, Diaz has to decide whether to join her entire family in Italy, where she'd make more money even as a domestic worker, or stay...
...Others say the best way to help families is to dam the flood of migration by giving workers a reason to stay home. In October, officials said that nearly 10 million jobs had been created in the Philippines between 2004 and 2008. But activists and labor organizations argue that many of those were part-time or low-paying - hardly an enticement to keep Filipinos from seeking their fortunes overseas. "We want people to go abroad to work as a choice - not as something they have to do," says Cabral, head of the Department of Social Welfare and Development...
...would have liked for it to have lasted. But you can't always stay in the place where you'd like to be. We're good friends. We talk to each other almost every week...
...Soetoro-Ng writes, "she said, 'Oh my ... with all of this hullabaloo, it's going to be embarrassing if I DON'T die.' I gave her a chuckle and of course told her that I wouldn't at all mind such an embarrassment, and then I invited her to stay and dance with me into the New Year. She couldn't stay, but she certainly tried, and defied expectations again and again...