Mexico Violence: Unidentified Bodies, Missing Cases Mount Huffington Post ...nearly 16,000 bodies remain unidentified, says the National Human Rights Commission, an independent government agency. In total, 24,000 people have been reported missing. Many say the country's police are simply overwhelmed by the number of drug war casualties as they struggle with poor forensic capabilities and the reluctance of some witnesses and victims' relatives to help...
Don’t Expand NAFTA: A Warning Against the TPP Economy in Crisis ...The United States recently announced that Canada and Mexico will join negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)—a secretive U.S.-led multinational trade and investment agreement currently being negotiated with eight other countries in the Pacific Rim region...
Potential failure Economic Policy Institute ...The economy has grown at an average rate of 1.75 percent so far this year. ... this slow growth is not moving the economy much closer to full health, and may even be doing real damage to that long-run health.
Student Loan Debt Time Bomb Economic Populist ...Student loan debt is now the next great bubble, threatening the U.S. economy as the mortgage crisis did. The NACBA released a study and calls student loan debt the next financial crisis, on the level of the mortgage crisis...
Poverty in America: Why Can’t We End It? (opinion) New York Times ...The first thing needed if we’re to get people out of poverty is more jobs that pay decent wages...
Striking garbage drivers brace for showdown over replacements Seattle Post-Intelligencer ...There were a few workers picketing Sunday outside Waste Management buildings, but Monday morning could be when the real confrontation unfolds between what could be hundreds of strikers and hundreds of replacements driving their garbage trucks...
