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Sign Petition: End Credit Card Financing of Mail Order Brides
Business  (tags: women, trafficking, abuse, mail-order, brides, poverty, crime, sadness, rape, sexual, assault, credit, cards, banks, intrernet, business, corruption, ethics, finance, economy, money, society )

Tom
- 148 days ago - change.org
The facilitating of payments used in the recruitment and sale of mail-order brides is unregulated. The major credit card companies are involved and have been for years. It opens the door to an increasing class of criminals to buy and exploit these women.
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Sign Petition: Support AgJOBS To Help America's Farm Workers
Business  (tags: society, culture, rights, farm, workers, government, law, agjobs, poverty, wages, housing, healthcare, food, agriculture, stability, guestworker, business, economy, humans, rights )

Tom
- 177 days ago - ufwaction.org
There's a bipartisan immigration bill before Congress that could drastically improve the lives of these men and women who pick our country's food. It's called AgJOBS--The Agricultural Job Opportunities, Benefits and Security Act (S. 1038, Feinstein).
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World Poverty 'More Widespread'
Business  (tags: world, business, poverty, government, economy, corporate )

Cal
- 437 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The World Bank has warned that world poverty is much greater than previously thought.
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Migrant Tomato Workers Face Chronic Abuses
Business  (tags: Abuse Of Power, Farming, Florida, Laws, Poverty, Temporary Workers )

Barry
- 566 days ago - opednews.com
Southern Poverty Law Center describes the plight of farm workers, especially in the Southeast, were labor laws are scarce and enforcement even scarcer. This is a topic for legal and illegal immigrants alike.
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Bush Proposes to Drive Down the Already Low Wages of Farmworkers
Business  (tags: bush administration, low wages, farmworkers, poverty, economy )

Simone
- 637 days ago - enn.com
 The Bush administration's Department of Labor announced plans to gut regulations governing the nation's agricultural guestworker program today. The proposed changes threaten to significantly cut farmworker wages, lower the bar on farmworker housing,
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Charity Is Fine, But the Real Issue Is Trade
Business  (tags: WTO, tarrifs, subsidies, Africa, EU, poverty, famine, economy )

Marc
- 679 days ago - stwr.net
As we give money to help the world's poor onto their feet, the WTO is kicking them back to the ground.
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Choteau Native Helps Combat Poverty and Save a Wonder By Selling Rice
Business  (tags: green business, poverty, SustainableDevelopment )

Jonathan
- 734 days ago - greatfallstribune.com
Hensley's Ulm-based rice import company, Eighth Wonder, is selling "heirloom" rice -- distinctive-tasting varieties cultivated for centuries by families in the mountains of the northern Philippines the rice is putting cash in the pockets SEE COMMENTS GOOD
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The Associated Press: World Bank to Emphasize Agriculture
Business  (tags: poverty, World Bank, SustainableDevelopment )

Jonathan
- 750 days ago - ap.google.com
A dynamic `agriculture for development agenda' can benefit the estimated 900 million rural people in the developing world who live on less than $1 a day, most of whom are engaged in agriculture," said Robert Zoellick, the bank's new president.
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