Overseas Overseas, garment workers routinely make less than a living wage, working under extremely oppressive conditions. ... The argument in favor of globalization is that moving these jobs into undeveloped nations will stimulate local economies and improve the standard of living in the nations that "host" these sweatshops. ... Finally, these companies refuse to pay their workers a living wage, which means that their workers are held in a form of debt-slavery to the companies. ... Hired to work below minimum wage for up to 60 hours a week,many of the employees hadn't been paid. ...

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Bearing those arguments in mind, the minimum wage should be looked at annually and in relation to the cost of living. ... At $6.75 an hour, workers are below the poverty level and cannot make ends meet. ... Most of these problems could be solved by a wage that realistically adjusts with the cost of living. ... The retail industry employs more than half the nations hourly workers at or below minimum wage, even though the industries profits went up 158 percent since 1968. ... One job should pay enough not only to keep the worker above the poverty level but s...

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Gasoline Through my Lifetime Everywhere you go and whom ever you listen to you can hear the comment, "Gas is so high", "It has never been this high." Yes these statements are true. Yes gasoline is high and no the prices have never been as high as they are right now, but we as Americans have never...

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Poverty here is defined as having net household income below 60% of the median income, after housing cost. ... The situation is even bleaker for children, with almost a third of children living in poor households in 1999. ... Distribution of poor children by work hours of household Total hours worked by all persons in household Actual poverty patterns 1999 Projected poverty in 1999 if work patterns comparable to 1979 % Distribution of poor children Children who are poor living in households with given work hours as a % of all children % Distribution of poor children Children who are poor...

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These people are living on a day-to-day basis. ... Because they are living day by day, people in poverty have no chance to improve their status. ... The poverty line is the level of income below, which the income of the household or individual is inadequate to meet the essential needs of the household or individual as determined by society. ...

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Now that we are in 2013, some people's occupations have stabilized but there are still many people that work every day and still live below the poverty line. ... Due to this fact, it is of popular debate over dinner, at restaurants, and in the typical American living room. ... Employers didn't really care about peoples living situations so they continued to exploit their workers. ... The cost of living would continue to rise and so would the minimum wage. ... This seems like a big difference but the problem is that the price of living has increased greatly since then. ...

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They are generally defined as "a workplace where workers are subject to extreme exploitation, including the absence of a living wage or benefits, poor working conditions, and arbitrary discipline, such as verbal and physical abuse (Sweatshop Watch)." ... Meanwhile, the average cost of three meals a day in that particular area is $2, and the cost of living (housing, clothing, education, energy, etc.) is $3 (48 Hours). All Nike employees receive $37 dollars a month during their first three months on the job, $9 below Vietnamese minimum wage. ...

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Companies in Asia paid workers in China and Vietnam $1.60 a day and workers in Indonesia less than $1.00 a day, when at least $3.00 per day is considered the minimum living wage. ... These jobs have actually become the aspiration of the people living in the slums of Indonesia and Thailand (Kristof, 1998, pA1). ... Even the measly wages and hazardous conditions offered in the sweatshops are better than the fate of living unemployed in the slums (Kristof, 1998, pA1). ... Nike provides these living quarters that often times are worse than the average Indonesian village. ...

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Economics in One Lesson Part one describes that economics is the one study that has more falsisms than any other. The two biggest mistakes made in economics today are that of only looking at the immediate consequences of a proposal, and only considering a certain group and neglecting all of th...

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