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Africa’s baby-boom: Population to double by 2050

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“By 2050, many African states will likely more than double in population. Kenya will rise from 44 million to 97 million people, and Nigeria from 174 million to 440 million. Some nations will nearly triple their growth, the reports finds. Somalia will have 27 million people in 2050, up from an estimated 10 million today; the Democratic Republic of Congo’s 71 million population is predicted to rise to 182 million. The total number of people on the continent is predicted to rise from 1.1 billion to 2.4 billion. India, currently the second most populous country in the world, will overtake China to become the most populous by 2030.
The US population was estimated to rise from 316 million to 400 million.”

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2013/0912/Africa-s-baby-boom-Population-to-double-by-mid-century

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California Approves $10 Minimum Wage; What Will Become Automated Now?

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California Approves $10 Minimum Wage; What Will Become Automated Now?

“The next time you pump gas for yourself ask yourself what happened to the gas station attendants that used to pump gas and wash your windshields.  The same thing when you can’t find a department store clerk.  It’s the same thing with those damn automated phone answering services that most firms now use, it’s just too expensive to hire human operators. And its the same with grocery store baggers from days of old. Thank you minimum wage.  The damage of minimum wage isn’t some theoretical, you have just gotten so use to it that you have forgotten what things were like, or you are too young to know the good old days.”

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/09/what-will-become-automated-now.html

 

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This Is What Happens When You Make It Difficult for Firms to Hire Youth

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http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/09/this-is-what-happens-when-you-have-so.html

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Officer named in lawsuit for knocking teen off mini-bike when off-duty

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“A St. Paul Park teen’s family alleges that an off-duty St. Paul police officer who lives in the city intentionally knocked the teen off his mini bike and verbally assaulted him.  A civil suit has been filed against officer Ronald Himes by Jessica Heroux on behalf of her son Mica Franke, 16, who was involved in a May altercation with Himes and was left scraped, bruised and with a handprint on his chest.  Franke told police Himes ran out into the road, hit him in the chest and knocked him off the mini bike. Franke said Himes then stood over him and proceeded to yell at him, the police report said. The lawsuit claims Franke was not given a warning and he was subjected to a ‘profanity-laced tirade’ from Himes.”

http://www.wdaz.com/event/article/id/19612/group/News/

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Barrett Brown Faces 105 Years in Jail

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“Encountering Barrett Brown’s story in passing, it is tempting to group him with other Anonymous associates who have popped up in the news for cutting pleas and changing sides. Brown’s case, however, is a thing apart. Although he knew some of those involved in high-profile ‘hacktivism,’ he is no hacker. His situation is closer to the runaway prosecution that destroyed Aaron Swartz, the programmer-activist who committed suicide in the face of criminal charges similar to those now being leveled at Brown. But unlike Swartz, who illegally downloaded a large cache of academic articles, Brown never broke into a server; he never even leaked a document.”

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/barrett-brown-faces-105-years-in-jail-20130905?print=true

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Young Greeks Helping Each Other to Combat Crisis

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“The political class may have set the rules, but almost everyone adhered to them. Now the game is over, and there is no money left for fakelaki and rousfeti, corruption and nepotism, two basic principles of Greek political life until now. Suddenly there is room for those who want to set up new rules, and who want change and more cooperation. Some 3,000 initiatives were established throughout Greece in the last three years. They all have the same goal: to do things better than before. There are food cooperatives, community gardens, social pharmacies and neighborhood assistance programs for the poor.  In Crete alone, there are now five alternative currencies.”

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/young-greeks-helping-each-other-to-combat-crisis-a-916123.html

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Teen arrested for using app to “shoot” his classmates with a cellphone

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“Police arrested a 15-year-old high-schooler Thursday in Louisiana for ‘terrorizing’ his classmates with a phone app that edits video to make them appear as though they are being gunned down.  Terrebonne Parish sheriff’s Capt. Dawn Foret told the Lafourche Daily Comet that the H.L. Bourgeois High School student, used a phone app called ‘The Real Strike‘ to superimpose video game style guns on video from an iPhone and similar devices. The app allows a user to virtually ‘shoot’ things in front of the camera.  The boy is charged with terrorizing and interfering in the operation of a school.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/14/teen-arrested-for-using-app-to-shoot-his-classmates-with-a-cellphone/

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12-Year-Old Targeted By Idaho Tax Commission For Raspberry Stand

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“Tayson Weeks, who decided to sell raspberries from his family’s farm to save up for a small motorcycle, was confronted by the tax commission on his second day selling to local residents.  ‘He wanted to buy himself a little Honda pit bike. I told him he’d have to pay it for himself,’ said Jason Weeks, the boy’s father.  According to Jason, the Tax Commission handed his son a tax form and gave him until Oct. 15 to send the state 6 percent of his earnings. The piece comes following a report by Anthony Gucciardi detailing how, meanwhile, a top bureaucrat works for around 2 hours per day and makes over $400,000 in cash paid for by union workers.”

http://www.storyleak.com/12-year-old-idaho-tax-commission-raspberry-stand/

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The future of work: on to a freelance model?

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“If work is changing and freelance-like work is on the rise, bringing with it increased freedom, autonomy and diversity but also probably added unpredictability in terms of steady incomes, then we’ll probably also need a societal change and start questioning our need to own things and how we approach borrowing and lending money. For many, facing all this change can seem daunting, which was probably why at some point of our interesting dinner conversation my friend suggested that for a couple maybe one could pursue a project-based/entrepreneurial activity of some sort while the other could guarantee some ‘stability’ from a ‘traditional’ job.”

https://artlifework.wordpress.com/2013/09/08/the-future-of-work-on-to-a-freelance-model/

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Part-Time Employment as a Share of Total Employment

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“It’s growing.  Obamacare is really not helping the youth. It will tax them for health insurance they don’t need, AND it will also make it more difficult for them to find full time jobs.”

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/09/part-time-employment-as-share-of-total.html

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