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BRONXVILLE, N.Y., April 28, 2009, The New York Times — At 25 cents a job, or more, the children of Bronxville are laboring at home, some for the first time: cleaning their rooms, unloading the dishwasher, replacing toilet paper, pulling weeds.

The cost to aid budgets of the world economic downturn is headed for billions of dollars, slashing assistance to the world's poorest people just as it becomes harder for them to make money for themselves.

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