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...past decade--and to concerns that some institutions are scamming the system by seeking tax-exempt status. The Internal Revenue Service lists more than 1.8 million charities, up from 739,000 charities 25 years ago. The tax-exempt sector includes not just soup kitchens and scholarship funds but also labor unions, hospitals, the NCAA--even Major League Baseball. "Today you see nonprofit holding companies," says Minnesota state attorney general Mike Hatch, who has aggressively pushed for better nonprofit governance. "We're dealing with multibillion-dollar enterprises, many times with no tie to the community...
...says according to two of her suppliers, at least half of their workers have family members who suffer from or have died of the disease.) What's more, the crafts work allows the women to stay at home, where they can care for their families, instead of traveling to labor in factories. According to Deale, the women earn good wages, by South African standards. She won't discuss how much they make but says she has given them raises twice in the past two years. "I've developed a market for them. I knew if I could sell their products...
...darling of last May's Sydney fashion week, Australian Cathy Braid employs more than 400 women in a remote mountain village in Pakistan, where she now lives, to make her stunning hand-stitched collection. Braid creates the designs, but the women decide on a fair price for their labor. "You can't work with these women every day, live with them, understand their lives and then pay them unfairly," says Braid. "You just...
...fail to engage the world on poverty and disease.” Brown also said he strongly opposes trade pacts such as the Central American Free Trade Agreement, and while in office, he has pushed for a renewed focus in economic policy on small domestic manufacturers, working people, and labor unions. Brown said that his ability to “be specific, be assertive…and make choices clear” separates him from both his opponent in the Democratic primary, Paul Hackett, and the presumed Republican Senate candidate, Mike DeWine. Brown urged audience members to support progressive ideals...
Westfall, who held the Gray and Schipper professorships, taught a mandatory first-year property-law course for all 50 years that he was an HLS faculty member. In recent years, however, he had branched out to labor law and family...