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...flooded.” But the Square’s smaller, independent stores were more cautious in their evaluation of the weekend. “We don’t get slammed like the malls, but we make a lot at this time of year,” said Marka Valdez at Berk’s shoe store. Frances Cardullo, president of Cardullo’s, however, called growth “flat. Totally flat.” “People are not coming to Harvard Square to shop any more,” Cardullo said...
Beyond the trade haggling are real human consequences, best seen in elementary schools like the one in the town of Marka Coungo, a few miles from Bafing Diarra's farm. Ba Dienta, head of the school, estimates that enrollment varies as much as 25%, depending on the annual cotton price and the size of the harvest. When farmers make no money from cotton, Dienta says, his students concentrate poorly and fall asleep in class because they're hungry. "Everything is done on cotton money--marriage, debt, babies," he says. "When the price is low, it's a catastrophe...
Nouhoum Sissoko, 40, mayor of Marka Coungo and the biggest cotton producer in the district, says the pressure to accept lower prices every year is relentless. "The [Malian] government told us the low prices are because of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Such partners are making pressure on government, and the government is putting pressure on us," he says, sitting in a thatched meeting room next to the mayor's office. Later, on a tour of his 54 acres planted in cotton, he laughs deeply when told of the subsidies and guarantees American cotton farmers enjoy...
...Beyond the trade haggling are real human consequences, best seen in elementary schools like the one in the town of Marka Coungo, a few miles from Bafing Diarra's farm. Ba Dienta, head of the school, estimates that enrollment varies as much as 25%, depending on the annual cotton price and the size of the harvest. When farmers make no money from cotton, Dienta says, his students concentrate poorly and fall asleep in class because they're hungry. "Everything is done on cotton money?marriage, debt, babies," he says. "When the price is low, it's a catastrophe...
Royal has a three-year, $214,000 contract with the city to do the hospital's laundry, according to Marka Peterson, an organizer of the Union of Needletrades Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE). UNITE claims that the 150 workers, most of whom receive between 54.50 and 56 per hour, are underpaid and subjected to dangerous work conditions, including exposure to blood and feces. They also charged that Royal has offered an unreasonably expensive health-insurance plan for its employees...