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UN agency praises Cuba’s food security program
June 15, 2015Under-nutrition afflicts fewer than five percent of Cubans. And Cuba has helped reduce the number of the world's hungry by half as of 2015.
Read moreProtests against Peru’s Tia Maria Mine bolstered by international solidarity
June 11, 2015What does it take to stop a threatening transnational corporate giant? The people of Arequipa, Peru have an answer.
Read moreUnderfunding, one-person crews share responsibility for deadly Amtrak crash
June 5, 2015"It strains our collective memory to think of a case where we attack a problem by defunding it when we want a positive outcome."
Read moreNew rules require contractors to obey labor laws
May 29, 2015Rules will help prevent millions of workers from being subject to harmful or unlawful treatment, especially underpaid women.
Read moreRail safety problems trigger protests
May 29, 2015Railroad Workers United reported that the first protest about safety, or lack of it, on rail lines occurred in Chicago on May 27.
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