The subsistence wage

Until the broken Haitian government can figure out how to distribute paychecks, the national police have been working for food. That's one meal a day, given to them by the foreigners, that "we have to beg for," said the chief of police.

The article is interesting throughout, as it focuses mostly on how corruption among the Haitian police has plummeted since the earthquake.

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