- Support effective, efficient aid programs – they save lives.
- Right now, forty percent of the world’s population – more than 2.5 billion people – live in poverty, struggling to survive on less than $2 per day. The persistence of global poverty poses a challenge to the security, prosperity and values of the United States. Cuts to the world's most vulnerable communities have real impacts. Tell Congress we won't stand by while they make cuts that will cost lives.
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Oxfam America reaction to US-Brazil WTO cotton case development
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Multi-agency report reveals disparity in living conditions for Louisianans
Sep 17, 2009 -
Oxfam reaction to WTO judgment on US cotton subsidies
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New report reveals shared experiences of African Americans and Latinos
Jun 16, 2009 -
Bold leadership is needed to turn the tide of poverty
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- An overview of Oxfam America's continuing effort to rebuild the Gulf Coast
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- Inventory of Farmworker Issues and Protections in the United States
- Weeding out abuses
- Recommendations for a law-abiding farm labor system
- Resilience and determination
- Gulf Coast organizations defending worker and immigrant rights in the aftermath of Katrina
- A Portrait of Louisiana
- Louisiana Human Development Report 2009
- Building Common Ground
- How shared attitudes and concerns can create alliances between African-Americans and Latinos in a post-Katrina New Orleans
- A Portrait of Mississippi
- Mississippi Human Development Report 2009
- Mirror on America
- How the state of Gulf Coast recovery reflects on us all—Oxfam's report on the status of Gulf Coast recovery three years later.
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- MIRA makes a difference
- Oxfam Impact September/October 2006
- Rebuilding the Gulf Coast: A Year Later
- Like Machines in the Fields
- Workers without rights in American agriculture
- Gulf Coast government guide
- A Directory of the National, State, and Local Officials Representing Coastal Mississippi
- US Gulf Coast Recovery Program Fact Sheet
- An overview of Oxfam America's continuing effort to rebuild the Gulf Coast
- The New Pornographers for Oxfam's Gulf Coast Program
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