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Are we left behind in the ‘green production’ revolution?
November 20, 2009Institute for America's Future experts: China has a national industrial strategy. We do not. And we better come up with one soon.
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Rome Food Summit is a flop
November 20, 2009There was little good news for the world's billion hungry people at the UN World Food Organization (FAO) Summit held November 16 - 18 in Rome.
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Wall Street vote delayed as Black Caucus demands help for poor
November 20, 2009Members of the Congressional Black Caucus persuaded House Finance Services Committee chairman, Rep. Barney Frank to delay a vote on the systemic risks bill.
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U.S. students win ‘new day’ for Honduran workers
November 19, 2009In a big victory for a U.S. student campaign, Russell Athletics, the largest supplier of team uniforms and apparel, agreed to reopen a Honduran factory that it shut down after its workers formed a union.
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Feeling heat, U.S.-China firms say they’ll build turbines here
November 19, 2009Under pressure from the nation’s biggest manufacturing union, a U.S.-China energy partnership said it would build a factory here, creating 1,000 jobs.
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