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A Migration Summit To Address Shrinking Birth Rates

John Feffer | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Remittances, Racism, Migration, Immigration, Obama, Xenophobia, Foreign Workers, World News
John Feffer

The Russians and Japanese, as well as Europeans, are not having enough children to replace themselves. Only by lowering the barriers to citizenship can shrinking countries revive their economies

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Labor Department Tries To Roll Back Last-Minute Bush Rules

AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: H-2a, Farm Workers, Bush Administration, Foreign Workers, Labor Department, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Labor Department is trying again to roll back Bush administration regulations that made it easier for farmers to hire temporary...

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Banks' Foreign Workers At Risk

New York Times | JONATHAN D. GLATER | Posted 04.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Foreign Workers Bank of America, Bank of America Foreign Workers, Economic Stimulus Package, Foreign Worker Visas, Economic Stimulus Package Visas, Economic Stimulus Package Foreign Workers, Foreign Workers, Business News

What could be worse than graduating from an American business school this year with an interest in banking? Being such a graduate who is not a Unit...

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Pity the Poor Englishman in Manhattan

Vicky Ward | Posted 04.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Gordon Brown, Financial Crisis, Economic Stimulus Package, Wall Street, Barack Obama, Foreign Workers, Business News
Vicky Ward

The protectionist amendments to the administration's stimulus bill will severely limit the number of H-1B visas. Britons who were due to start work here later this year will have their job offers rescinded.

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Dubai's Laid-Off Foreigners Flee Spiraling Economy

Nytimes.com | By ROBERT F. WORTH | Posted 03.15.2009 | World

Read More: Real Estate Market, Global Financial Crisis, Lay-Offs, Dubai, Persian Gulf, Dubai Airport, Middle East, Economy, Abandoned Cars, United Arab Emirates, Foreigners in Dubai, Foreign Workers, World News

Sofia, a 34-year-old Frenchwoman, moved here a year ago to take a job in advertising, so confident about Dubai's fast-growing economy that she bought ...

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Printing Poetry

Wendy Block | Posted 01.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Outsourcing to India, Jobs, Obama, Diplomacy, Technology, Foreign Workers, Mumbai Terrorism, Living News
Wendy Block

Back from Best Buy one recent evening with my new all-in-one inkjet, I finally began connecting it to the computer just before midnight. When I next g...

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