Word: laboral
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...Export Re Justin Fox's "A Port That Exports": you don't wipe away an $800 billion annual trade deficit by further weakening the dollar, exporting raw materials and wishing for good luck [June 9]. It takes real change in trade policy - labor and environmental standards that will raise living standards at home and abroad, better guarantees for safe food and toy imports, and no more NAFTAs and other corporate trade deals. We need more trade - but under a very different set of rules that work for our families and our communities. Sherrod Brown, U.S. Senator, Avon, Ohio...
...past, such economic activity might have been enough to keep a family eating when its own crops died. This year, the labor isn't worth enough to buy real food. The women take their firewood and charcoal to local brewers and trade it for the grainy residue of beer instead. Then they eat that. Death rates in the local hospital's child-malnutrition program are twice the level they were in 2006-07. "We would have had more deaths," says James Lemukol, the hospital superintendent, "if there were no [regional] intervention from...
...Export Re Justin Fox's "a port that exports": you don't wipe away an $800 billion annual trade deficit by further weakening the dollar, exporting raw materials and wishing for good luck [June 9]. It takes real change in trade policy - labor and environmental standards that will raise living standards at home and abroad, better guarantees for safe food and toy imports, and no more NAFTAS and other corporate trade deals. We need more trade - but under a very different set of rules that work for our families and our communities. Sherrod Brown, U.S. Senator, AVON, OHIO...
During a break, we walked a short distance across the grassy park and down a trail through the trees to a clearing where we could spot the fruits of our labor - the start of what I was told will be a mile-long trail of sandbags piled two-feet high atop a leaky levee. In the distance, National Guard troops piled the bags. Below us, only a few feet away, was our new enemy - the river...
...Justin Fox's "a port that exports": you don't wipe away an $800 billion annual trade deficit by further weakening the dollar, exporting raw materials and wishing for good luck [June 9]. It takes real change in trade policy--labor and environmental standards that will raise living standards at home and abroad, better guarantees for safe food and toy imports, and no more NAFTAS and other corporate trade deals. We need more trade--but under a very different set of rules that work for our families and our communities. Sherrod Brown, U.S. Senator, AVON, OHIO...