Social Issues

Magazine articles on social issues such as crime, the environment, abortion, wealth distribution, drugs, etc.

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IDB America October 2004 Christy Macy	Young and Ready for Work Poor youths in South America and the Caribbean get practical training plus help in finding a job through a $10 million grant from the IDB's Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), which is administered by the International Youth Foundation (IYF).
IDB America October 2004 Daniel Drosdoff	A Better Way to Subsidize Housing Homeowners take the initiative in a new housing assistance program in Suriname.
IDB America October 2004 Carlo Binetti	A Political Agenda Against Inequality In the last two decades, Latin America has been weighed down by the bitter paradox of trying to advance democracy even as poverty grows more extreme. Meanwhile, in the political arena, globalization has imposed new demands on the State.
IDB America October 2004 Peter Bate	A Lean Machine By efficiently reaching even the most isolated rural families, Mexico's Oportunidades program opens the door other vital social services.
IDB America October 2004 Peter Bate	A Program Empowers Women---and is Powered by Them Mexican women take front-line positions in a successful program to reduce poverty and boost health and education.
IDB America October 2004 Peter Bate	The Story Behind Oportunidades How two visionary social scientists forged a program that has changed the lives of millions of Mexicans.
Science News November 6, 2004 Janet Raloff	Pesticide Disposal Goes Green A chemist and his colleagues at Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU) have been developing catalysts that might safely degrade dangerous stores of pesticides so that they pose less of a hazard to people and farm animals.
Fast Company November 2004 Lucas Conley	Trade Secrets Equal Exchange's innovative and collaborative ways of dealing with coffee growers gets it better beans -- and "caffeinated" growth. Do companies that thrive by twisting their suppliers' arms have something to learn from this strategy?
Fast Company November 2004 Alec Appelbaum	What's Your Carbon Worth? Ask Richard Sandor Financial-futures pioneer Richard Sandor thinks he can make carbon-emission rights as tradable as pork bellies and frozen OJ. in both the U.S. and the E.U.
Reason November 2004 Cathy Young	Defending Repression Why are American conservatives trying to rehabilitate McCarthyism and the Japanese internment?
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