MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
By Lisa O'Carroll, "Ireland Business Blog" @ The Guardian, January 20
...Unemployment levels are so high that men in their late teens and early twenties can't afford to hang around....
The Economic and Social Research Institute predicts 100,000 Irish will be emigrating in the next two years – 50,000 this year and 50,000 in 2012. It means more Irish people will emigrate this year than 1989, when emigration last peaked and 44,000 left Ireland.
The figure confirms what every family in Ireland knows, the country has reared a "lost generation" of twenty something semi-skilled workers and graduates who have no choice but to leave to find a job....
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At least today's Irish immigrants are educated and skilled, not like the illiterate 19th century famine victims. They'll do well and hopefully return someday to their native land.
by David Seaton on Fri, 01/21/2011 - 4:11am