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A Bow To Migrant Workers
Migrant workers will send home $414 billion by the end of 2013, a %6.3 increase over last year and a figure that is expected to go as high as $700 billion by 2016. To the nations which receive the remittances, they are often in excess of the foreign aid given to them. What’s even more…
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Undue Sway?
A parent in North Carolina did not think Ralph Ellison’s classic “Invisible Man” suitable for her teenager and wrote the school board who promptly banned the book from the whole county schools and libraries. Not far in Tennessee, a stepfather complained that a proposed field trip to a mosque favored “Islamic tolerance”. Although the field…
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One Small First Step
Starbuck’s CEO Howard Schultz sent a letter “respectfully requesting customers” to refrain from bringing guns into the stores. He had been associated with the ‘open carry’ laws wherever they are legal allowing customers to display guns in public. Now Starbucks follows Peets Coffee & Tea, California Pizza Kitchens and Buffalo Wild Wings in not allowing…
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