One-tenth of Americans use of food coupons provided by the Government
Xinhua in Washington, on April 2nd Electricity, the U.S. government said, the latest statistics showed a total of 32.2 million Americans, that was that about one-tenth of Americans received food stamps from government to buy food. The Food Stamps were the main measures of United States to combat hunger to help poor people buy food. The average benefit per person in January was 112.82 U.S. dollars. In January the data was the third time to set a new high of the statistics of 5 months. The United States agencies to combat hunger and Action Center Food Research said: “the weak economy means that more peoples will rely on supplemental nutrition assistance and support programs, namely food stamps,”
China surpassed the United States to become Brazilian largest export destination country
Xinhua in Brasilia, on April 2nd (Xinhua Zhao Yan Chen Wei-hua), according to the Brazilian economic newspaper “Value Newspaper” on 2nd reported that in March this year, China has surpassed the United States to become Brazilian largest export destination country. In same month, the Chinese iron ore imports from Brazil, soybeans, aircraft, sugar and other products had a total of 1.7 billion U.S. dollars. Brazilian Development, Industry and Foreign Trade Ministry recently released statistics which also showed that Chinese exports to Brazil in the first quarter with11 percent in its total exports, nearly doubled than 5.4% last year in the proportion.
The majority of French listed companies paid executives, significantly reduced
Xinhua in Paris on April 2nd (reporter Lu Longun) the financial crisis made the vast majority of the companies in the performance slowdown or declined, and executives of listed companies in income have also been severely affected, a significant decline in performance bonuses or “no choice but to give up.” French “challenge” on April 2nd on the magazine Internet published a list of salaries of 25 listed companies executives in list of 40 stocks in Paris CAC40 stock index (not including the adoption of incentive equity to gain benefits, mainly in the fixed wage and performance bonuses).
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