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Perfume
A KWCH-TV investigation shows how teenagers are being hired to sell perfumes on the street without ever getting paid. The employer, MPR Enterprises, takes the children out of state, makes them work 12 hours a day. The employees pay for their hotel rooms and have to rely on their commissions to buy food. Often they go hungry if they did not sell enough during the day. Labor experts say this practice sounds illegal but there are no laws regulating outdoor sales, KWCH reports. After the investigation aired, the company still continued to hire in Wichita.
Tags: teenagers; Department of Labor; employment; business; employees; wages
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This American is Hungry...
George magazine discovers that the booming economy has hurt America's invisible poor. In a road trip into the backyards of George W Bush and Al Gore, Maharidge found working people as desperate as the homeless. He found hunger in country houses that has a deceptive middle-class look, single mothers waiting in line for free food despite holding multiple jobs and a border town in Texas with unpaved roads and homes without running water.
Tags: food; hunger; hungry children; working poor
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It is an uncomfortable, even unthinkable, reality: hungry schoolchildren in the heart of suburbia. This Los Angeles Times article examines hunger among elementary and middle-aged school children in middle-class communities who come to class too hungry to learn. The hunger is caused by sharp growth in the nation's salvage food industry as corporations sell food they once gave away to food banks. (Nov. 20, 1994 - Sept. 4, 1995)
Tags: Nazario West Covina U.S. Department of Agriculture Food stamps 47 pgs.
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WBRZ-TV (Baton Rouge) documentary on Jimmy Swaggart finds that most of the money the evangelist collects to feed hungry children is not used for that purpose; follow-up reports describe a kickback scheme involving the ministry's printing contracts and detail Swaggart's anti-Catholic views, May 19, 1983.
Tags: Camp Tape Swaggart