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This map basically means that the lighter color, the more equally the wealth in the country is distributed. You can tell where the most people suffer due to the darker shades of green seen throughout the  map.
The countries with the biggest gap between poverty and …

Yesterday, United Kingdom airline British Airways, who has seen the largest one-year loss since being privatized in 1987, asked employees to save the company money by working for free. Naturally, a struggling company would try to save money wherever possible, but that might be a …

After being $2.8 billion in the hole for 2008, the United States Postal Service is looking at ways to cut costs for 2009. One way the agency has come up with is to cut delivery from 6 days a week to 5.
Cutting back on delivery …

Through the “jobs bank” program created by the United Auto Workers, union members receive pay even when they are laid off (with no real cut off date).
Each automaker’s jobs bank varies, but at GM, laid-off workers could get 85 percent of their base pay, plus …

Just after noon eastern time, Barack Obama became the 44th President of the United States. He gave an inaugural speech that told Americans to be hopeful but hard times are still ahead.
Here is the text of the speech:
“My fellow citizens:
I stand here today humbled by …