Minimum wage hike agreement could be reached today
Poverty June 4, 2019 | 7:48 am
Santo Domingo.- Despite the lack of consensus on the issue of the reclassification of companies and other points, the National Wage Committee will meet 3pm Tuesday when an agreement is expected to be [...]No papers mean no school, no job for 70,000 youngsters of Haitian descent
Poverty May 23, 2019 | 9:29 am
Santo Domingo.- The Integral Ethnic Foundation (FEI) and the Haitian International League (Lihaiti) on Thurs. said that more than 70,000 young people, children of Haitian descent, can’t go to school[...]Dominican Republic among 5 hungry LatAm countries
Poverty May 13, 2019 | 8:51 am
Santo Domingo.- The Dominican Republic is among five priority countries in the Latin American and Caribbean region, where there are strong urban-rural gaps and deep rural inequalities that generate hu[...]Program aims to reduce poverty, protect the environment
Poverty May 9, 2019 | 3:46 pm
Santo Domingo.- The Dominican Environmental Consortium (CAD) on Thurs. launched a program that seeks to contribute to sustainability, reduce poverty, improve the environmental conditions of the produc[...]Dominican Republic’s wage of misery marks Labor Day
Poverty May 1, 2019 | 7:29 am
Santo Domingo.- Although the Government and the private sector praised the workers to mark International Labor Day, which is celebrated today, even the special date wasn’t enough to spur consensus t[...]Social safety nets key to protecting poor and fighting poverty during economic slowdowns
Poverty April 4, 2019 | 4:41 pm
Press Release WASHINGTON, April 4, 2019— The economies of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are facing a number of internal and external challenges, highlighting the need for policy makers to[...]Opposition returns to the streets to demand the resignation of the president of Haiti
Poverty March 30, 2019 | 9:18 am
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