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In This Frigid Territory, Unemployment Is Illegal

Posted at July 11, 2014 | By : | Categories : Quick Facts | 0 Comment

How does Svalbard, Norway, remain nearly crime-free? There are a number of factors (there are fewer than 3,000 official residents and it’s a remote territory with no quick escape routes), but perhaps the biggest one is that in Svalbard, it’s basically against the law to be unemployed. “If you…
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Author: Evann Gastaldo