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California Latinos face big wage gap
October 22, 2004Even though Latino workers in California have won substantial wage increases over the past 25 years, the gap between their average annual income and those of all other workers in the state has widened, according to...
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International notes
October 22, 2004Global: Youth unemployment soaring The International Labor Organization (ILO) said last week that half the world’s unemployed are between 15 and 24 years of age. The ILO’s report, “Global Unemployment Trends for Youth, 2004,” said the...
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Huge antiwar rally floods Londons streets
October 22, 2004LONDON — Over 100,000 peace campaigners from across Europe converged on Trafalgar Square Oct. 17 to demand an end to the illegal occupation of Iraq. Hordes of activists, many of whom had spent the weekend in...
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The Cubans are coming! Or are they?
October 22, 2004This is a story about traveling Cubans — one group to Haiti, the other (or so they hoped) to the United States. Over 500 Cuban doctors have been working in Haiti, helping the people of that...
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China moves to reduce rural poverty
October 22, 2004At the first-ever China Poverty Eradication Award ceremony on Oct. 17 — the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty — China announced with great pride that the poor population in the country’s rural areas had...
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