Poverty – Page 35 – People's World

Union leaders hail Obama order raising minimum wage for contract workers

February 14, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

They urged other politicians, notably lawmakers in Congress, to follow his lead and raise the national minimum wage.

Left surges in Salvador presidential elections

February 4, 2014 By Emile Schepers

Shocking pollsters and pundits, the left surged in the presidential elections in El Salvador, giving a substantial plurality to the candidate of the left-wing FMLN Salvador Sanchez Ceren.

Medicaid fight in Virginia takes off

January 28, 2014 By Emile Schepers

The new Democratic governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe, is pushing hard for Virginia to sign onto the Affordable Care Act's (ACA's) Medicaid Expansion Program.

Hartford rising for Community Bill of Rights

January 22, 2014 By Joelle Fishman

The multi-racial rally, called in the spirit of Dr. King's 1964 poor people's campaign, was held in Hartford's North End, one of the most impoverished neighborhoods in the nation.

Mexico after 20 years of NAFTA: poor and getting poorer

January 6, 2014 By Emile Schepers

20 years after the North American Free Trade Agreement came into force, farmers and workers in Mexico, the U.S., and Canada suffer from corporate profiteering.