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Growing Market for Human Organs Exploits Poor

By Guest PostMarch 13, 2012General, Health, Mediaanthropologist, Bangladesh, bangladeshi newspaper, black market, body parts, corneas, dhaka, Europe, exploitation, health problems, human kidney, human organ trafficking, India, kidneys, livers, mehedi hasan, michigan state university, middle east, monir moniruzzaman, organ broker, organ trade, organ trafficking, poor people, rickshaw puller, transplant, united states, us congress, us senate committee, victims

EAST LANSING, Mich. — A Michigan State University anthropologist who spent more than a year infiltrating the black market for human kidneys has published the first in-depth study describing the often horrific experiences of poor people who were victims of organ trafficking.

Monir Moniruzzaman interviewed 33 kidney sellers in his native Bangladesh and found they typically didn’t get the money they were promised and were plagued with serious health problems that prevented them from working, shame and depression. (more…)

2011: The Year Of The Tax Increase

Unless the U.S. Congress acts, there is going to be a massive wave of tax increases in 2011. In fact, some are already calling 2011 the year of the tax increase. A whole host of tax cuts that Congress established between 2001 and 2003 are set to expire in January unless Congress chooses to renew them. But with Democrats firmly in control of both houses that appears to be extremely unlikely.

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Growing Market for Human Organs Exploits Poor

2011: The Year Of The Tax Increase