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• Watch This VideoThe U.S. economy added many more jobs than previously estimated in the later stages of the current cycle, dramatic new data revealed recently, raising the prospect that the labor market today may also be tighter than previously thought.

According to the new figures from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, the economy added 810,000 more jobs than earlier estimated between April 2005 and March 2006, an ave

When people have problems understanding their computers, especially in the United States, they often pick up a phone and call the computer maker's help desk. Also, calls for help go out from Canada and the United Kingdom for many services. Increasingly, that help desk may be in the Philippines, a growing player in the outsourcing market. More companies from high cost labor markets are shifting call center jobs to the Philippines.

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Australia reunites families all over the world with the Parent Migration Program. Citizens and permanent residents can now sponsor their parents to migrate and live with them in Australia so they may spend the rest of their lives together.

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The 24-year-old daughter of a Scottish mother and Palestinian father, Rima, was born and brought up in the bustling southern Spanish city of Valencia.

It was a pedigree, which spawned empathy with Valencia's large population of immigrants, many fleeing the poverty of Africa and Spain's former South American colonies.

• Watch This VideoCanadian immigration policy is doing a good job of attracting skilled immigrants to this country, a Queen's University expert said. The U.S. Senate recently invited Economics professor Charles Beach to provide testimony as part of a major debate on U.S. immigration policy, driven by the large number of illegal immigrants in that country.

Beach told a U.S.

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So far this year, the Spanish Canary Islands have received well over 26,000 illegal migrants from Africa. Some estimates place it at over 30,000. More than half of illegal migrants arriving in the Canaries are Senegalese, and now Spain and Senegal have inked a preliminary deal to handle the illegal immigration by promoting more legal immigration.