April 21, 2016
Categories: Economy, Poverty, United States
Tags: embassy, hanes, levis, slums, wages
Memos from 2008 and 2009 obtained by Wikileaks strongly suggest, but don’t prove without a doubt, that the State Department helped block the proposed minimum wage increase. The memos show that U.S. Embassy officials in Haiti clearly opposed the wage hike and met multiple times with factory owners who directly lobbied against it to the […]
March 1, 2016
Categories: Restavek
For the most part, restavèk are found in middle to lower middle class homes, as well as the poorest slums of Port-au-Prince. The lack of local water infrastructure and overall lack of public services such as electricity in poor neighborhoods creates high demand for domestic workers to fetch water each day, and provide other […]
March 7, 2015
Categories: Recipients, United States
Sonapi a Place For Miserable Wages That Generate Slums Poverty and Shareholders Dividends. #LetGirlsLearn #Happens with #Policy #Makers #Empowering #People with #Wages + #Humanrights. #Grants to #Grassroots #Ngo. #Stop Grants & #Partisanship with $300K+ #Salaries. #Transparency. The #Girls and #Moms #Working #Garment #Factories of #Haiti are #Exploited (#Enslaved) by #US #Congress #Trade #Policies. #Reality. #Poverty […]