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Game show where jobs are prizes
The Daily Telegraph ^ | August 15, 2002

Posted on 08/15/2002 1:36:01 AM PDT by Victoria_R

IN Argentina, where one in five people is unemployed, one game show host doesn't ask, "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" Instead, the question is more mundane: "Who wants a job?"

One of the country's top-rated programs, Human Resources is a game show that reveals how far the one-time richest economy in South America has fallen.

In the midst of a four-year slump that has battered the peso and pushed half of Argentina's 34 million people into poverty, it offers its two contestants a shot at a job.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: economy; future; jobs
Coming soon to the U.S.?
1 posted on 08/15/2002 1:36:01 AM PDT by Victoria_R
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To: Victoria_R
I doubt it. We're not as socialist as they are, which is the reason their economy has fallen so hard/far.
2 posted on 08/15/2002 3:40:27 AM PDT by FreedomPoster
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To: Victoria_R
Coming soon: BOWLING FOR FOOD.
3 posted on 08/15/2002 3:45:21 AM PDT by Alouette
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