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In spite of declining numbers, the Mafia remains profitable . According to the New York City Police Department, in 1994 the five families pocketed $2 billion from gambling alone.
Maybe the greatest irony of the Kuczynski piece on the declining influence of magazines is that the story is much more magazine-like than what you'd get from a newspaper like the Times , say, 15 years ago.
At the same time, the paper said, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika "must concentrate his efforts on removing one of the primary causes of popular discontent and strife, namely, economic mismanagement which has led to a high unemployment rate and declining living standards."
By the 1990s, high birthrates and declining rates of infant mortality had produced a common problem throughout the Muslim world: a large, steadily increasing population of young men without any reasonable expectation of suitable or steady employment-a sure prescription for social turbulence.
In other words, the main victims of (to use another of Reich's phrases) the "new economy" are not the few thousand managers who have become hamburger flippers but the tens of millions of hamburger flippers, janitors, and so on whose real wages have been declining 1or 2 percent per year for the last two decades.