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Michael Seraphinoff - Friendly Exchange
Vietnam War, to aiding Native Americans in prison, to preserving low-income housing for the poor. With a growing philosophical distaste for ... were more equitably distributed than in the West. Jobs were low-paid, but always available. Housing was somewhat crowded, but no ... bakery. We sold nutritious, low-cost baked goods to non-profit food co-ops. We paid ourselves a very low wage. We chose to ...
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Save the Redwoods - Boycott the Gap Tear-gassed at Seattle WTO Protests
The organization may also eventually forbid American "antidumping" laws that bar the import of low-cost foreign steel. Those laws are important to American unions. The WTO used the same ... attention to companies such as the Gap and Nike that have been accused of using low-wage or child labor to produce some of their merchandise. Peaceful protesters, horrorstruck, shouted, "Shame! Shame ...
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GLRA_tourism
Tourism is primarily a service industry that is seasonal and highly dependent on low wage and benefit-free positions to staff its busy times at both eating and lodging establishments ...
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Habitat Media - interview transcript
Most of the employment generated in shrimp industry is in the processing sector. Now that ... not have opportunities for upward progression in any kind of professional sense. It's relatively low wage. It is tough work that leads to problems of carpel tunnel syndrome and other repetitive ...
habitatmedia.org

New Rules Project - Environment - Land Use Rules
... forego office buildings with high-paying jobs in favor of big box retail stores with low-wage jobs, in anticipation of generating more tax revenue with a comparatively smaller burden on public ...
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Paul Hawken - The Next Reformation
... be natural capital in the form of resources, or human capital, in the form of low-wage workers, or local capital in the form of functional and healthy local economies, is being ...
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RE: Federal minimum wage
D.C. 20515 RE: Federal minimum wage Dear Representative , Congress has not increased the minimum wage since 1997, meaning the real ... the pay scale have dropped dramatically. Since the last minimum wage increase, members of Congress have increased their own pay several ... cuts that target health care and education for poor and low-wage working Americans, with plans in the coming months to give ...
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Groundwork Institute - Nicaragua Project Description - High Quality Low Cost Housing
March-May 1986) for a 36m2 house.  This budget was low.  Not only did the demonstration house meet this budget, it was also ... ,000.  (* these prices are from March-May 1986, inflation will render them low within a matter of months.) This means that for a cash cost ... value, they would be paid over C$5000/day for their time.  A wage they had no hope of earning in March '86 when these cost ...
groundwork.org

In Business, Creating Sustainable Enterprises & Communities
Advances in freight transport coupled with low fuel prices have made it possible for corporations to find where the absolute lowest production ... field assisting local businesses to compete with products produced in distant locations whose advantages are low-wage labor and a lack of environmental regulations. SAFETY OF FOOD SUPPLY One of the big ...
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Raising the Minimum Wage
The Minimum Wage and Earned Income Tax Credit Work Together for Low-Wage Workers. The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) works in conjunction with the minimum wage to ensure a livable wage for low-income families ...
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