US poised to hit Obama's target of 10,000 Syrian refugees

[ducks]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMA_SYRIAN_REFUGEES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-08-04-14-57-54

so where are they going to work?

[Pelicans78]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMA_SYRIAN_REFUGEES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-08-04-14-57-54

so where are they going to work?

Plenty of gas stations in this country.

[CosmicCowboy]

Coming to a 7-11 near you!

[Splits]

http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/the-economics-of-syrian-refugees


With up to seven million Syrians having been displaced by the civil war, many countries much smaller than the United States have already allowed in a lot more than ten thousand refugees. Since 2012 the European Union has received about 1.9 million requests for asylum, and even that number is dwarfed by the number of people who have sought refuge in countries adjacent to Syria. According to the United Nations (http://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/regional.php), Turkey has taken in an estimated 2.2 million, Lebanon 1.1 million, and Jordan six hundred and thirty thousand.

Based purely upon these figures, you might think that the economies of these countries would be sagging under the burden, but they aren’t. According to a new report (http://www.oecd.org/economy/turkey-economic-forecast-summary.htm) from the Paris-based Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development, the Turkish economy will expand by three per cent this year and by four per cent next year. Lebanon’s economy is also growing, at a rate of about two per cent this year, which will expand to more than three per cent next year, the World Bank reckons (http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Business/Local/2015/Jan-16/284247-world-bank-sees-lebanon-economy-improving-by-2017.ashx). Despite an influx of refugees that now amounts to more than ten per cent of its population, Jordan, too, is bearing up. Its gross domestic product will rise by about three per cent this year, the International Monetary Fund says (http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/INT080515A.htm).

[ElNono]

Coming to a 7-11 near you!

Maybe they'll open their own chain and compete with the Indians in 7-11..... 9-11 might be a good name, tbh :lol

[ducks]

Plenty of gas stations in this country.
so they will take jobs away from young people who need to pay for school got it

[DarrinS]

Maybe they'll open their own chain and compete with the Indians in 7-11..... 9-11 might be a good name, tbh :lol

Damn :lol

[benefactor]

Maybe they'll open their own chain and compete with the Indians in 7-11..... 9-11 might be a good name, tbh :lol
:lol

[clambake]

excellent

[CosmicCowboy]

Maybe they'll open their own chain and compete with the Indians in 7-11..... 9-11 might be a good name, tbh :lol

:lmao

[Spurminator]

Maybe they'll open their own chain and compete with the Indians in 7-11..... 9-11 might be a good name, tbh :lol

brb cleaning the drink off my monitor

[spurraider21]

Maybe they'll open their own chain and compete with the Indians in 7-11..... 9-11 might be a good name, tbh :lol
Bold this man

[TeyshaBlue]

Maybe they'll open their own chain and compete with the Indians in 7-11..... 9-11 might be a good name, tbh :lol

Master.

[HI-FI]

Maybe they'll open their own chain and compete with the Indians in 7-11..... 9-11 might be a good name, tbh :lol
:rollin