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Lessons from a minimum wage fight
October 21, 2005Workers’ Correspondence ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — By just 1,481 votes, this city’s “Living Wage Initiative” was defeated on Oct. 4. The initiative would have lifted 40,000 families out of poverty by raising the minimum wage from $5.15...
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World Notes
October 21, 2005China: CP calls for ‘common prosperity’ At its recent Central Committee meeting, the Communist Party of China said the new Five Year Plan starting in 2006 will emphasize “common prosperity” in an effort to bridge the...
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Liberian elections may signal turn toward peace
October 21, 2005The people of Liberia, a West African country of over 3.4 million citizens, have suffered dearly from the ravages of internal wars over the past 14 years. An Oct. 11 election to narrow down a list...
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UN meet: Youths future in peril
October 21, 2005UNITED NATIONS — In both developed and underdeveloped nations, youth are in a precarious situation, facing poverty, HIV/AIDS and lack of access to education, among other critical problems. It was in this context that the UN...
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U.S. threatens, meddles in Nicaraguan politics
October 21, 2005A last-minute agreement between Nicaraguan President Enrique Bolaños and the leader of the left-wing opposition Sandinista party, former President Daniel Ortega, has evidently staved off a U.S. threat of sanctions against the impoverished Central American country....
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