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- Bank bailout could end poverty for 50 years
- Oxfam urges miner to address community engagement practices
- New bipartisan congressional bill promises renewed hope for US foreign assistance and global poverty reduction
- Oxfam welcomes climate bill, urges increased support for hardest hit
- Oxfam welcomes Berman's action to increase development and diplomatic capacity
- Historic house climate bill passes first test, more resources still needed for hardest hit
- Yum! Brands agree to hike pay for Florida tomato pickers
- Florida tomato pickers, among some of the poorest paid workers in the United States, have won another victory in their fight to earn a decent living wage.
- US farmworkers reach historic agreement with McDonald's
- Some tomato pickers in southwestern Florida could see their wages nearly double now that McDonald's has agreed to pay them a penny a pound more for the produce ...
- The Lift House: Living on the bayou—or above it
- MIT architecture students design a new housing concept for the Gulf Coast that combines affordability with hurricane-ready sturdiness, and ease of construction.
- Taking on the 'green monster'
- In the tobacco fields of North Carolina, workers put in long days under grueling conditions. Baldemar Velasquez finds out just how hard the job is.
- Oxfam, CIW celebrate Burger King's promise of a wage hike
- A penny a pound more for the tomatoes they pick could mean a near doubling of wages for Florida field laborers.
- Oxfam builds support for human rights at meat processing plant
- Oxfam America is concerned about the human rights of the thousands of employees who work at a blinding pace at the facility without any of the protections a ...
- New report documents the fading of the American dream
- New index is a single measure of well-being for all Americans based on indicators in three key areas: health, education and income.
- Group lives up to its name: Coastal Women for Change
- Gulf Coast women join together to talk about what was happening in their community, what issues and problems they faced, and how these could be addressed.
- From the US and Senegal, stories of climate survival
- An Oxfam America speaking tour brings together two women who are leading the fight against climate change.
- Farmers in the US speak out
- Farmers in the US and Central America had similar concerns about DR-CAFTA.
- Emerging artist paints with a purpose
- For Ashley Cecil, each work of art means a chance to make a difference.
- Designed to last, new "Lift House" holds promise for Louisiana
- A new concept takes shape and offers hope for residents of the Gulf that future hurricanes might inflict less, if any, property damage.
- ¡Miembro!
- A historic contract for members of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee provides a host of protections for immigrant workers.
- A force of nature
- Three years after losing everything in Hurricane Katrina, one grassroots leader is harnessing the power of community.
- Women of influence get results on Capitol Hill
- Oxfam's Sisters on the Planet Ambassadors generate Congressional support for women who face the devastating effects of climate change.
- Our Land, Our Life
- The struggle of Carrie and Mary Dann, two Western Shoshone elders, to address the threat mining development poses to the sacred and environmentally sensitive ...
- Oxfam Impact September/October 2006
- Rebuilding the Gulf Coast: A Year Later
- Oxfam Impact April 2007
- MIRA makes a difference
- Cultivating Poverty
- The impact of US cotton subsidies on Africa
- Investing in Destruction: Glamis Gold
- Forgotten Communities, Unmet Promises
- An unfolding tragedy on the Gulf Coast
- Fairness in the Fields
- A vision for the 2007 Farm Bill
- How Does the USDA Farm Bill Proposal Measure Up?
- US Gulf Coast Recovery Program Fact Sheet
- An overview of Oxfam America's continuing effort to rebuild the Gulf Coast
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