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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. (Reuters)

Venezuela Drowns in Poverty despite Massive Oil Reserve

by Sabri Najeh | May 12, 2017 | Business

Cairo – Venezuela has the biggest oil reserve in the world. Since 2013, it has raised the minimum wage around 15 times, the last of which was last Sunday. The country is suffering from a very bad economic situation and is drowning in poverty more and more every...

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Carmella Salinas at the Family Learning Center in Española, N.M., where she has taught early childhood education for 14 years. She earns $12.89 an hour and her week is capped at 32 hours. Credit Minesh Bacrania for The New York Times

Child Care Expansion Takes a Toll on Poorly Paid Workers

by Patricia Cohen | Aug 14, 2016 | Business

Carmella Salinas has worked steadily for 14 years as an early-childhood-education teacher, taking care of 4- and 5-year-olds at the nonprofit Family Learning Center in the hardscrabble community of Española, just north of Santa Fe, N.M. Even so, she rarely earns...

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A general view of the Nile River and the Cairo skyline is seen from the Cairo Tower in Cairo Tower in the Zamalek district on Tuesday, August 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

Egypt: Strike action takes center stage

by Mohamed Hassan Shaban | Feb 11, 2014 | Middle East

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Thousands of Egyptian textile workers demonstrated on Monday, as doctors and pharmacists called for partial strikes to demand better pay and conditions in the first major industrial action since the downfall of former President Mohamed Mursi....