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Saipan sunset Long Beach, Tinian Tinian Hotel lobby The ruins of the House of Taga stones Saipan at night Northern Marianas Islands Museum. The economy of the Northern Mariana Islands benefits substantially from financial assistance from the United States and tourism. The rate of funding has declined as locally generated government revenues ...
From 2007 to 2010, she was an English teacher at Kagman High School in Saipan. She later worked as the principal of Kagman High School from 2013 to 2021. [1] Staffler was elected to the Northern Mariana Islands House of Representatives in November 2020 and assumed office on January 11, 2021. [2]
After the trip, Abramoff helped DeLay craft policy that extended exemptions from federal immigration and minimum-wage labor laws to Saipan industries. Abramoff also allegedly paid the expenses for at least two other trips to the Marianas. In both cases, Abramoff was reimbursed by Preston Gates, which was then being paid by the Marianas ...
Saipan sunset Rota's natural seawater swimming hole. The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands benefits from its trading relationship with the federal government of the United States and cheap trained labor from Asia. The CNMI's economy has historically relied on tourism, mostly from Japan, and the garment manufacturing sector.
Saipan is the largest island in the Northern Mariana Islands. It is about 120 mi (190 km) north of Guam and 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) northeast of Tinian, from which it is separated by the Saipan Channel. Saipan is about 12 mi (19 km) long and 5.6 mi (9.0 km) wide, with a land area of 115.38 km 2 (44.55 sq mi).
The CNMI is a US commonwealth and thus may apply the "Made in USA" label to goods manufactured on Saipan. Frank Murkowski, then Republican Senator from Alaska and chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, submitted a bill to extend the protection of U.S. minimum-wage labor laws to the workers in the CNMI.
Saipan saw the last of its factories close down in 2008. In 1992, Cited for sub-minimum wages, seven-day work weeks with 12-hour shifts, poor living conditions and other indignities, Tan Holdings Corporation, Levi Strauss' Marianas subcontractor, paid what were then the largest fines in U.S. labor history, distributing more than $9 million in ...
"Neo-Colonialism & Contract Labor Under The U.S. Flag" by Phil Kaplan "Solving Worker Abuse Problems in the Northern Mariana Islands" by Karen M. Smith "About Saipan" - A strongly critical take on the CNMI, Saipan Sucks; Satellite Image of Anatahan Ash Plume; Ocean Dots at the Wayback Machine (archived December 23, 2010) pictures