New York City had escaped a debt crisis but found itself in a crime, population, and educational crisis that would last for decades.
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One of the most extraordinary episodes of American political history has played itself out before a surprisingly calm public: most polls showed that barely a quarter of the population deemed it a crisis.
The figures show that the ongoing economic crisis has reversed the country's rapid population growth in the decade before the financial crisis erupted in 2008.
Earlier at the Rome summit, U.N. chief Ban Ki-Moon called for a drastic increase in food production to meet the demands of a rising population and stave off a crisis brought about by oil prices, climate change and the impact of the biofuel market.
Go here for a Lancet article on the health impact of the income crisis on the Greek population.
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High Commissioner for Refugees has said the Iraqi refugee crisis is the most significant population displacement in the Middle East since Israel was established in 1948.
Well, last May we saw well that idea went down with the public and we are now hitting a crisis point as the elderly population want to hang up their hats and enjoy their retirement.
In a report for the Campaign to Protect Rural England, Andrew Lilico of Europe Economics argues that the housing crisis is a myth stemming from population overestimates in 2000.
With a population of 25 million, Ghana faces a healthcare crisis of immense proportions.
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Its aim is to deter any threats to Turkey, to defend Turkey's population and territory and to de-escalate the crisis on NATO's southeastern border.
The Harvard Business School graduate has kept New York City (population: 8.4 million) afloat amid a staggering financial crisis and a seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 10.6%.
Before the current crisis, about 30% of the breakaway region's population was ethnic Georgian.
In 2007, before the financial crisis of 2008 and the ensuing recession, the employment-population ratio had fallen to 63%.
With all the talk of the huge impact of the mortgage crisis on homeowners and big banks, one segment of the population is not in the spotlight, and that's renters.
The cholera outbreak is part of a larger humanitarian crisis and economic meltdown in Zimbabwe, in which half the population is in dire need of food and water, according to the United Nations.
The country still faces a productivity crisis and it will take years to get a quarter of its population out of the jobs line and back into the workforce.
Around 20% of the population was living below the poverty line at the height of the first post-Soviet financial crisis in 1998 and 1999.
On top of this, Ethiopia now has to contend with the AIDS crisis which afflicts so much of Africa more than 10% of its adult population is HIV positive.
Mitarai describes the crisis in plain language: seemingly unstoppable decline in birth rates, a turn to population decline, doubts about the future of the social security system, a shrinking domestic market.
Spain's population fell last year for the first time in decades, as immigrants left the country amid a major economic crisis, officials say.
With the over 65 population expected to rise by 50% over the next 25 years, expect to hear much more about the care crisis.
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