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...December 2003, after five years of lobbying by student anti-sweatshop activists.In January, the consortium’s board endorsed a new initiative, the Designated Suppliers Program (DSP), which would require licensees to allocate sufficient funds to foreign contractors so that employees can take home a living wage and workplace conditions can be adequate.But the consortium’s board has clarified that the endorsement is a recommendation, not an obligation. “It’s not a requirement that any school affiliated with the WRC adopt any policy beyond the basic code of conduct...
...Supported by organized labor, Braley has campaigned on raising the minimum wage, fair trade issues, opposing Republican efforts to privatize Social Security and reforming the Medicare prescription drug program. Whalen has emphasized reducing wasteful government spending and government intrusion that hampers free enterprise. He also supports private sector solutions, a modified flat tax system to help small businesses and stimulate economic growth, "consumer-driven" health care reform, tort reform and permanent extension of federal income tax cuts...
...minimum wage issue in particular has bubbled up, with Braley claiming that Whalen has only paid workers the federally mandated minimum, which Whalen denied. So too has the immigration issue, aided by a high-profile U.S. House Judiciary Committee field hearing in Dubuque on immigration reform and an appearance on Whalen's behalf by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns, who warned of rising farm labor prices if illegal immigration is not dealt with comprehensively...
...cash, says Marcelo Neri, director at a Rio business school and author of a recent report on inequality. "In some places that were so poor that money practically didn't exist, you greased the wheels," Neri said. "That's because of the Bolsa Famila, the rise in the minmum wage and other such programs. There is a clear link...
...Other programs such as those taking electricity to rural communities, water to desert hamlets, and nutritional information to schools have also boosted Lula's standing among the poor, as did a 23% increase in the minimum wage over the last two years. Together, these measures have contributed to a reversal of the seemingly endless trend of the poor getting poorer and the rich getting richer...