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What does success look like? For this single mother in Guatemala, it’s all about perseverance
Across the world women are held back and held down by cultural standards that discriminate against them, laws that limit their mobility, unequal compensation, violence, lack of representation. However, we keep seeing women who, despite having the chips stacked against them, manage to rise above those challenges.
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Politics of Poverty
Why are governors rejecting federal funds for unemployed workers?
Many of us celebrated when the American Rescue Plan Act included federal supplements to unemployment benefits. The extra $300 a week offers a lifeline to countless working families. However, most Republican governors are making the alarming decision to turn down the help. What the heck is going on?
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Politics of Poverty
Why include a worker on a company Board of Directors? Five good reasons.
Having a worker at a company’s table of power changes the conversation by including a different voice at the highest level of corporate decision-making. For the second year in a row, Oxfam’s proposal to consider a worker for Amazon’s board of directors goes to a vote. A quick scan of the reasons why it makes sense for everyone.
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Politics of Poverty
One more measure of increasing inequality in the US: Geography
As Congress has been largely deadlocked over recent years, it’s fallen to the states to make the most important changes to labor laws and policies. The result? A crazy patchwork quilt of laws that vary wildly from one state to the next, and pour fuel on the fire of widening inequality in the US.
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Politics of Poverty
The water crisis in Jackson has deep roots in environmental racism
The most recent crisis in the water supply system in Jackson, Mississippi, reveals a lot about our country’s priorities—and shines a spotlight on the urgent need to invest in underserved communities. | Privatizing won’t solve the problem—and may make it worse.
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Politics of Poverty
“The dominos are starting to fall”
Oxfam's private sector department has a sophisticated understanding of corporate power in the US and around the world. The real work is figuring out best strategies to expose, challenge, and possibly work with giant corporations.
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With a green thumb and plenty of grit, Asmael and Khetam Saifo have spent the past three years putting down roots in their adopted city, Charleston. And some of the gardens around the capitol are looking pretty good because of it.
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Politics of Poverty
IMF-Ghana bailout: What to like and what needs improvement
Will the final agreement address civil society demands for accountability to Ghana’s poorest citizens?
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Follow along as one refugee family travels from Syria to Lebanon to Italy to escape violence in their homeland.
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Indigenous communities in northern Cambodia can’t live without their forest lands, so Oxfam is helping protect them.
