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...above-average wages and generous benefits. With their own capital, they assembled a staff of 30 (25 of whom used to work at Lands' End), but to this day, the founders still personally visit each factory on a regular basis. They also hand over 5% of the company's profits to the Fair Indigo Foundation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving educational opportunities in the countries where the company's factories and co-ops are located...
...Nepalese technical school in a community consisting largely of underprivileged families from the lower castes. The workers at one of the company's small Costa Rican cooperatives?where each sewer and cutter of the brand's twill pants and chinos helps make financial decisions?turned an exceptional profit last year and were able to give themselves a bonus of three months...
...ordinance makes council approval contingent upon the universities making payments equalling or exceeding the value of the property taxes the city would lose due to ownership by a non-profit organization...
...alternative approaches to confronting poverty. “We’ve got to regulate behavior or we’ll have absolute chaos which will lead us to a totalitarian state,” she said. Parker, the founder of the Coalition on Urban Renewal & Education, a non-profit think tank, referred several times to her welfare days in Los Angeles. “I bought the lies of the left,” Parker said. “I listened to their lies and they absolutely destroyed my life.” Parker said she had four abortions...
...ence, and simply learn to cope with the inconvenience? When individuals begin selling their personal mediums of communication for advertising profit, social culture suffers. Entangled in a web of technology and dependencies, sacrificing one’s privacy ceases to be a choice, but is instead a byproduct of modern interaction. Perhaps this evolution is inevitable to some extent, but we should be wary of new and innovative forms of “service”—they could cost us more than we think...