Aftershocks of the attacks. (Economics)."It's heartbreaking heart·break·ing adj. 1. Causing overwhelming grief or distress. 2. Producing a strong emotional reaction: heartbreaking loveliness. to see how quickly this happened and how much people are already hurting," says Rev. Alexia alexia /alex·ia/ (ah-lek´se-ah) a form of receptive aphasia in which ability to understand written language is lost as a result of a cerebral lesion. Salvatierra, who leads a group assisting low-wage and undocumented workers that have been laid off in the post-Sept. 11 service industry slump. Churches around the country are opening "worker relief centers" to aid the growing number of workers suffering the economic aftershocks of the terrorist attacks. The Hotel and Restaurant International Employees Union estimates that nearly 100,000 of its members, most of whom are low-wage immigrant workers, have either lost their jobs or had their hours cut as tourism plummets. Washington, D.C. officials say nearly 40 percent of the jobs in the hospitality industry have been eliminated or cut back. Rev. Salvatierra's church in Santa Monica, California For other uses, see Santa Monica (disambiguation). Santa Monica is a coastal city in western Los Angeles County, California, USA. Situated on Santa Monica Bay of the Pacific Ocean, it is surrounded by the City of Los Angeles — Pacific Palisades and Brentwood on the north, , is working with local unions to provide food, job counseling, and pastoral pastoral, literary work in which the shepherd's life is presented in a conventionalized manner. In this convention the purity and simplicity of shepherd life is contrasted with the corruption and artificiality of the court or the city. care to those in need. |
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