The Palestinian economy is not yet strong enough to support a sovereign state because of its heavy reliance on foreign aid, according to a World Bank report.
It’s May. The grunions are running and so are the members of Occupy L.A. They wriggle up from the cold and dark, plant their tushies on the warm ground and squirm about frantically, desperate to get something accomplished, until a massive tide sweeps them away.
The trouble with kids these days is that they think luck counts more than they should. That’s the diagnosis of America’s young people offered by a New York Times opinion piece this past weekend. Generation Y has moved back home and given up on gung-ho because in these recessionary times, they’re putting too little weight on the importance of effort and too much weight on the riskiness of risk.
Taglit-Birthright Israel has contributed more than $535 million to Israel\’s economy since the trip\’s inception in 2000, the organization said.
Jewish organizations expressed concern at cost-cutting proposals in President Obama\’s $3.8 trillion budget for 2013. B’nai B’rith International and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs both released statements outlining their issues with provisions in the budget.
With new measures tightening sanctions on Iran, the United States moved one step further toward effectively cutting off the Islamic Republic\’s economy from the West.
Two years ago, I did a series of interviews with Jewish community members hit hard by the recession. At that time, they were mostly optimistic that things would turn around soon, but when I checked back this month, I found that they’re all still struggling to find their footing in this unstable job market. Social service agencies I contacted say this is not surprising.
From the very beginning of the Occupy Wall Street movement, people wanted to know why. Why did a group of protesters calling themselves “the 99 percent” take up residence in Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan on Sept. 17?
No one knows what difference Occupy Wall Street will turn out to make.
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