Category: Crime, Corrections, Law Enforcement
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The Wonk Salon, September 24, 2011
The Impact of Minimum Wage on Somoa, Marianas Government Accountability Office Increases in the minimum wage have devastated the tuna cannery industry in Somoa but has been less of a factor in the tourism-based economy of the Northern Mariana Islands. L.A. Gang Reduction Program Is Helping Urban Institute A drop in gang-related crime was evident…
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A Real Mexican Hero
This has nothing to do with Bacon’s Rebellion, but I was so moved by the story, I had to bring attention to it. When drug dealers ordered 77-year-old rancher Alejo Garza Tamez to vacate his farmhouse so they could expand their drug routes into the United States, he dismissed his workers and fortified his house.…