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  • Living off immigrant money sent home from U.S., young Guatemalans don't want to work

    05/30/2007 9:48:16 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 31 replies · 1,115+ views
    AP on North County Times ^ | 5/29/07 | Juan Carlos Llorca - ap
    SALCAJA, Guatemala -- Working and going to school have become optional in this highland Guatemalan town, thanks to a flood of U.S. dollars sent home by migrants living in the United States. The family-run mills that produce brightly colored, hand-woven traditional fabrics have fallen quiet as their potential work force -- mostly young men -- hang out at the town's pool halls or video game salons, living off remittances and waiting to make their own journeys north. "Kids have easy money, and the only thing they know how to do is spend it on video games," complained Salcaja Mayor Miguel...
  • UN relief agency gives food to unpaid PA government workers

    06/07/2006 11:49:47 AM PDT · by blueminnesota · 3 replies · 283+ views
    Haaretz.com ^ | 6/7/2006 | Associated Press
    The United Nations Relief and Works Agency said Wednesday it is adding 100,000 Gaza residents, mostly government employees and their families, to its food distribution program to meet an increasingly desperate situation there.