To be honest, I feel sorry for anyone who has as many children as the first man mentioned. There is no way, unless you are filthy rich, that anyone can take care of those many children properly. The biggest problem facing the world in the future is overpopulation while the food supply dwindles, and it will mainly be poor families like this man's who will suffer the most.
Issue of Pay for 2 Sets of Workers Tugs at Palestinian Pact
By FARES AKRAM and JODI RUDORENJUNE 26, 2014
GAZA CITY Abu Raid al-Samouni, 46, a driver and office cleaner in the Foreign Ministry headquarters here, leaves for work before his 14 children wake up each morning, to avoid their pleas for spare change to buy candy. Like the other 42,000 workers hired while the militant Islamic group Hamas ran the Gaza government over the past seven years, Mr. Samouni has received only part of his $350 monthly salary since October; in April and May, there was no paycheck at all.
Mustafa, 34, a security officer who spoke on the condition that his last name not be used for fear of reprisals, spent a recent afternoon smoking a water pipe in a beachside cafe as his three children swam in the Mediterranean Sea. Like the other 70,000 people employed by the Palestinian Authority in Gaza before Hamas wrested control of it, the political split means that he has continued to collect his full salary $520 a month without ever actually going to work.
Continue reading at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/27/world/middleeast/hamas-fatah-palestinian-salar
Issue of Pay for 2 Sets of Workers Tugs at Palestinian Pact
By FARES AKRAM and JODI RUDORENJUNE 26, 2014
GAZA CITY Abu Raid al-Samouni, 46, a driver and office cleaner in the Foreign Ministry headquarters here, leaves for work before his 14 children wake up each morning, to avoid their pleas for spare change to buy candy. Like the other 42,000 workers hired while the militant Islamic group Hamas ran the Gaza government over the past seven years, Mr. Samouni has received only part of his $350 monthly salary since October; in April and May, there was no paycheck at all.
Mustafa, 34, a security officer who spoke on the condition that his last name not be used for fear of reprisals, spent a recent afternoon smoking a water pipe in a beachside cafe as his three children swam in the Mediterranean Sea. Like the other 70,000 people employed by the Palestinian Authority in Gaza before Hamas wrested control of it, the political split means that he has continued to collect his full salary $520 a month without ever actually going to work.
Continue reading at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/27/world/middleeast/hamas-fatah-palestinian-salar
