The campaign will be launched on September 5th to mobilise church members especially in the UK, US and Canada to lobby retailers and politicians to improve wages, safety and working conditions for Bangladeshi garment workers. There are 4,000,000 workers in the industry that produces 80 per cent of Bangladeshi export earnings.
Enplug is an advertising-technology company whose office is a six-bedroom, three-bathroom Ranch-style home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles. Twelve of the company’s 37 employees, including the chief executive, live and work there—24 hours a day, seven days a week—without the commute and few outside distractions.
Luigi Pascali, an economist at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, says that history suggests that Archbishop Welby’s call to drive pawnbrokers out of business by setting up competing church-based credit unions might be the right approach.
Brian is a debt collector who repossesses cars from people with bad debts. But he’s also had money problems himself, so he knows how it feels from both sides.
As we seem to have settled into weary stasis regarding the government sequester, former Democratic Sen. Byron L. Dorgan of North Dakota writes in the
Sixty percent of the available arable land in the world is in Africa. But African leaders are caught between a desire to attract investment and
The United Church of Christ has decided to divest itself of fossil fuels stocks or else retain those that meet certain standards. Should the Episcopal Church follow suit?
Kat Ascharya writes a powerful article for Monildia on Mashable on our assumptions about homelessness and what we think people should have and not have:
The Economic Policy Institute has come up with a handy click-thru animation on income inequality–how it happened, what it costs you personally, and how to
A documentary from Why Poverty? on the efforts of Bob Geldoff and Bono to reduce global poverty. What did the accomplish? What did they do