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Meet Robyn Nietert of the Women's Microfinance Initiative: Building Businesses, and Lives, One Loan At a Time
Business  (tags: business, debt, Entrepreneurs, ethics, economy, finance, humans, investments, labor, money, society, world )

Daphna
- 11 days ago - planetgreen.discovery.com
The Women's Microfinance Initiative (WMI) started as a casual discussion between two women in Bethesda, Maryland. Robyn Nietert and Betsy Gordon wanted to help people in an impoverished community, and microfinance seemed a more sustainable and empowering
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Out of Iraq, National Guardsmen Now Battling to Find Jobs
Business  (tags: labor, military, economy, americans, news )

Cal
- 17 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Some members of Elkhart-based unit land work, but others are frustrated
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Child Labor | The High Cost of Cotton
Business  (tags: world, society, labor, humans, money, investors, ethics, farming, economy, consumers, business )

Daphna
- 20 days ago - gliving.com
Just in case you thought it was okay to buy non-organic cotton, here's a wakeup call: the workers sowing, picking, weeding, hoeing, cross-pollinating and carrying the heavy bundles of cotton are often... children. And I'm not talking about kids working th
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Alaska Loses Jobs for Fifth Straight Month
Business  (tags: americans, business, consumers, corporate, debt, economy, environment, ethics, finance, government, humans, labor, marketing, money, news, oil, politics, society, technology, usa )

Wolfweeps
- 32 days ago - newsminer.com
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Alaska job market continues to struggle, as the state suffered its fifth straight month of job losses in September and the unemployment rate rose to 8.4 percent.The seasonally adjusted jobless rate rose from 8.1 percent in August
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Facing Massive Layoffs, Russia's 'Detroit' Feels the Chill
Business  (tags: world, business, finance, economy, society, money, news, government, labor )

Cal
- 42 days ago - news.yahoo.com
The plight of AvtoVAZ hints at what many say is a crucial weakness of modern Russia : its outdated infrastructure and inefficient, Soviet-legacy companies.
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Study Finds Prefab Houses in Alaska Villages Beyond Repair
Business  (tags: americans, business, consumers, corporate, corruption, cover-up, debt, dishonesty, economy, energy, environment, ethics, finance, foreclosures, government, labor, law, lies, marketing, money, news, politics, society, technology, investments, investors, oil )

Wolfweeps
- 44 days ago - newsminer.com
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - As many as one-third of homes in one Western Alaska village are rotting, moldy and potentially unsafe to live in, a new report says."We started to wonder how these buildings were still standing," said John O. Mark, housing directo
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The Best -- and Worst -- Cities for New Jobs
Business  (tags: business, economy, finance, money, employment, labor )

Dee
- 54 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Flint, Mich., and Lincoln, Neb., have something in common: They are the two cities in the U.S. with the greatest difference between how many of their employers expect to add workers in the next quarter and how many expect to let them go.
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9 Reasons Why Starbucks Sucks
Business  (tags: consumers, business, humans, money, politics, labor, society, world )

Daphna
- 54 days ago - ecosalon.com
Starbucks: people either love 'em or loathe 'em. My husband likes their coffee and admires their business brains. I, on the other hand, can't stand them for their homogenized, yuppie style. Having grown up in grunge-era Seattle, once a land of artsy coffe
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Innovation a Top Priority at Clinton Global Initiative
Business  (tags: corporate, business, economy, consumers, Entrepreneurs, ethics, foreclosures, government, investments, investors, marketing, society, SustainableDevelopment, investing, finance, money, politics, technology, wal-mart, labor, debt )

Suzybell
- 56 days ago - businessweek.com
The meeting of CEOs and world leaders aims to come up with specific, profitable ways to address humanitarian issues and spur economic growth Innovation as a driver of worldwide economic recovery and growth is the key theme at the Fifth Clinton Global Ini
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Down the Wal-Mart Low Road: What Are the Costs of a Supercenter?
Business  (tags: business, consumers, corporate, dishonesty, economy, environment, ethics, labor, abuse, wal-mart, lies, money, corruption, dishonesty, ethics, propaganda, terrorism, cover-up, abuse, wal-mart )

Suzybell
- 59 days ago - gsmlaborcouncil.org
Wal-Mart is now the nation's largest grocer and pharmacy, with sales exceeding the combined total of major competitors, including Target, Safeway, Albertsons, Kohl's, and Kroger. How did Sam Walton develop a rural, southern discount store into the planet
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China Is Hiring, and Young Americans Are Going
Business  (tags: world, economy, business, labor, society )

Cal
- 60 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Many find it easier to get work as their friends are idled at home
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Labor-Led Coalition Pressures Wal-Mart for Change
Business  (tags: wal-mart, labor, ethics, corruption, news, investors, marketing, farming, economy, consumers )

Suzybell
- 74 days ago - politicalaffairs.net
Unveiling a new "American values agenda" this week, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union launched a new coalition of labor unions, worker advocacy groups, environmental groups,to "hold Walmart accountable to its workers, our communities and the p
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Wal-Mart Aims to Silence Workers --I AM ONE WHO WAS SILENCED!
Business  (tags: wal-mart, world, society, labor, humans, environment, economy, dishonesty, corruption, corporate, consumers, ethics )

Suzybell
- 74 days ago - wakeupwalmart.com
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is the world's largest and most influential corporation. If it were a country, Wal-Mart's economy would be the 26th largest in the world, placing it ahead of Argentina, Greece and Denmark.Nearly one out of every hundred working North
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'Biosecure' Farms Not So Biosecure
Business  (tags: abuse, business, consumers, corporate, corruption, cover-up, dishonesty, economy, farms, ethics, government, labor, law, lies, marketing, politics, society, world )

Cowboss
- 81 days ago - farmingpathogens.wordpress.com
There are times when perniciously false premises are treated as the criteria by which truth is determined. We lose the argument before it's begun. And where does that leave us in our efforts to control mortal dangers of our own making?
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Economy Leaves Some U.S. Workers Stuck in Bad Jobs
Business  (tags: economy, business, americans, labor, society, usa, news, humans )

Cal
- 85 days ago - reuters.com
With the U.S. economy mired in recession, workers are finding themselves stuck in bad jobs with such annoyances as managers who berate employees and bosses who hold meetings in bed.
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