Vodafone Group Chief Executive Arun Sarin is to stand down in July after five years in charge, the company said on Tuesday, as it hit forecasts for annual revenues and earnings and issued a solid outlook for 2009. Sarin will be replaced at the world’s largest mobile phone company by revenue by his deputy […]
Young Workers, Positive About Unions, Face Economic Squeeze
by James Parks Two new reports show today’s young workers are being squeezed by high costs of living and low or stagnant wages and they want the government to do more to solve this nation’s economic mess. The Economic State of Young America by Demos presents a statistical study of the economic condition of young workers, and The Progressive Generation: […]
Older Japanese seek love online
You’re never too old to fall in love. That’s what Yoji Kawamura figured after retiring at the age of 62 and deciding that part-time work and his new hobbies of photography and computers weren’t enough to fill his days. Like a small but growing number of older Japanese singles, Kawamura has turned to an online […]
We’re Squeeeeeezed
by Tula Connell This is a cross-post from the Firedoglake blog. Economics is scary. Or boring. Or both. Say the word and watch people yawn. But what’s going on around us right now—the U.S. mortgage crisis, skyrocketing oil and food costs, tanking wages and disappearing health care and retirement benefits, to name a few of […]
Line in the Sand
Discussion may have once been a means to an end. What is it today? I can offer, to anyone who has a working definition, that discussion is a relationship between people as people exchange accurate data. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=GIR20080511&articleId=8942 Suppose people exchange inaccurate data and suppose someone claims that such an example of exchanging […]
Nepal puts ban on grain exports
NEPAL – The Nepalese government have followed many other governments around the world in putting a ban on the export of grains from the country, a government official said Thursday. Rice prices have risen 35% in recent weeks. A 30 kilo bag of rice now costs NRs 1,500, up from NRs 1,100 some weeks […]
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