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Pbs Learning Media: Made in l.a.: Examine Labor Practices in the Garment Industry
In this clip, a Mexican immigrant and garment worker talks about the working conditions in the garment factory. [2:14]
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Pbs Learning Media: Tomatoes of Wrath: Lucas Benitez
Lucas Benitez worked picking tomatoes in Southern Florida for wages that were barely enough to live on. Conditions were deplorable and workers faced a climate of intimidation, fear and violence right here in the United States. Lucas...
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Pbs Learning Media: Southern Africa: Troubled Water
In 2005, FRONTLINE/World featured the PlayPump, a promising new technology that pumped fresh water when children played on a merry-go-round. The story appealed to the good intentions of politicians, celebrities, and funders, who gave...
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Pbs Learning Media: Haiti: Relief Efforts Meet Staggering Obstacles
Correspondent Martin Smith travels to Haiti to bear witness to this humanitarian crisis and the ill-coordinated relief efforts on the ground.
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Pbs Learning Media: Sustainable Small Business Solutions for World's Poor
Listen as Jacqueline Novogratz discusses investing in sustainable small business solutions for the world's poor. The goal, says Novogratz, CEO of Acumen Fund, is to find a way to bring essential services to low income people not just...