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Poor in the USA

You know, even when I talk to Romanians who have been to the United States, they often fail to grasp just what life is like there. Without turning this post into a jeremiad, I was reading through a new report (PDF) issued by the U.S. Census Bureau (Rom: recensament), talking about official levels of poverty. There were 49.1 million poor [people] using the SPM definition … Continue reading Poor in the USA

Unknown's avatarSam Cel Roman
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Let’s Talk About Telephones

A few years ago, the government re-arranged telephone numbers in this country to make them a lot simpler to use. Nonetheless, it can sometimes be confusing. To understand, let’s look at a real telephone number, that of the mayor of Cluj, the city where I live: +40 264.592.301 To begin with, the +40 is Romania’s country code, so this phone number has been written in … Continue reading Let’s Talk About Telephones

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