Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Trailer
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A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves
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Orphaned at 8, raised on the Manila streets where he hawked cigarettes, he had hustled a job at a government sports complex and held it for nearly two decades. On the spectrum of Filipino poverty, that alone marked him as a man of modest fortune. But a monthly salary of $50 did not keep his family fed. While some migrants go abroad with Ph.D.’s, most travel as Emmet did, with modest skills but fearsome motivation.
About 200 million migrants from different countries are scattered across the globe, supporting a population back home that is as big if not bigger. Were these half-billion or so people to constitute a state — migration nation — it would rank as the world’s third-largest. A million Overseas Filipino Workers — O.F.W.’s — left last year, enough to fill six 747s a day. Read the full article in the New York Times
