The recent spate of garment-factory disasters in Bangladesh spotlights the poor working conditions in that country.
Poor working conditions, rudimentary surveillance and communications equipment, inadequate forensic science laboratories and outdated weaponry are making matters worse.
Two mid-sized dams are being built there now, constantly under legal pressure and labor disputes over unfair pay and poor working conditions.
In particular, it has mobilised support among the poor working class in Ireland's urban areas, who might otherwise back the prime minister's party, Fianna Fail.
Poor working capital management causes many early-stage companies to fail.
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He added that incidents involving structural building issues such as the last two factory accidents were "not common" in Cambodia, despite worries about poor working conditions in the country.
As part of the government's emphasis on work, the working families tax credit, to be introduced in October, and the children's tax credit, due in 2001, will help poor working parents.
Over the past three decades, they came in waves, working long hours in sweatshops, construction sites and assembly plants, enduring poor working conditions in order to save a little cash to remit home.
There have been 24 suicides at France Telecom, Europe's third-largest telecoms company, since the beginning of 2008 and 13 attempted suicides, according to labor unions, who blame restructuring and poor working conditions for creating a climate of stress.
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Conceptualize, design and formulate programmes that contribute to the creation of inclusive learning environments responsive to diverse learning needs, particularly for a disadvantaged and marginalized population in the Arab region, especially children with special needs, street and poor working children, refugees, drop-outs etc.
However, the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of these programmes has been undermined by a lack of adequate resources, an acute shortage of trained manpower, a severe lack of educational and other instructional materials, a shortage of learning spaces and insufficient motivation for teachers and literacy facilitators due to poor working conditions.
UNESCO: Integrated Intergenerational Literacy Project (IILP)
"The governor just doesn't seem willing to bring his 'A game' to the minimum wage issue, " said Mark Dunlea of the Hunger Action Network, an advocate for the poor and working poor.
The poor and working class in America may indeed have hunger issues, but they are not starving the way that the poor of famine-swept Somalia are starving.
The trader, 48, had grown up poor, working since age 11 and putting himself through college.
That did include poor and working class whites who wanted to be brought in.
He picked images of Americans rich and poor, working and idle, northern, southern and western.
That is why economic growth, not redistribution, most benefits the poor, working people, and the middle class.
Meanwhile, those branches of the state that actually do help the poor and working class should be maintained.
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One possible function for a modern WPA would be to go to neighborhoods--particularly poor and working class ones--and insulate houses.
Black Afro-Caribbean boys are among the lowest achievers in England's education system, alongside poor white working class boys, according to official statistics.
Hispanics are more likely to identify with the poor and working class.
But work has not proved to be a route out of poverty for everyone, partly because very few of the poor are working full-time.
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The slick new services often don't connect with each other and older public transport systems, leaving poor and working-class people struggling to get to work.
As a whole, this plan will help poor and working Americans pull themselves into the middle class in a way we haven't seen in nearly 50 years.
The end result of these Reagan Republican tax policies is that federal income taxes were abolished for the poor and working class, and almost abolished for the middle class.
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What we need is to focus on the real crises of health care and Medicare and on expanding opportunities for poor, working and middle- class families who are struggling now.
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The fact, for example, that some 70 percent of all farmers in the world are poor, working small holdings (a few acres per farm) additionally invites consideration of all those farmer dwellings.
"They enabled poor and working-class Americans to gain access to the good life, " said Jeff Wiltse, a history professor at the University of Montana and author of a social history of swimming pools.
That type of self-interest screwing customers, homeowners, and investors is applauded as hard work and smart thinking while the poor guy working 9-5 and trying to earn enough to support a wife and kids who finds himself out on the street although he participated in none of this.
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Ironically, for a Democratic Administration that fancies itself a greater friend of the poor, a cheap dollar slams the working poor the hardest.
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