Economy
August 23, 2010 -
By Jacob Horwitz, Labor Notes Hilario Jimenez was a farmer from a poor town in the Mexican state of Nayarit. Working on tobacco, bean, and tomato farms, he would earn as
August 16, 2010 -
By Sasha Chavkin, ProPublica Kenneth Feinberg, the independent administrator appointed by President Barack Obama to oversee compensation for the Gulf oil spill, last week described broad changes to BP's claims system that he will put in place when he takes over the process.
August 12, 2010 -
Despite repeated promises to take action, the U.S. Senate adjourned for summer recess without funding the federal discrimination settlement for black farmers.
August 12, 2010 -
"Strictly speaking, there are no such things as natural disasters." So reads the U.N.'s International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, which
August 10, 2010 -
"It's just like Katrina -- it's when the media leaves that the public needs to be paying attention." -- A community leader in south Louisiana, about the BP oil spill
August 9, 2010 -
By Mischa Gaus, Labor Notes The trailer, 24 feet deep by 8 feet wide, is muggy this early August