UN official looks at US housing crisis
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The economic crisis has hit American homeowners and renters especially hard. You can read the impact on the faces of the homeless and in the yard signs that say foreclosed. Now a UN official is seeing it for herself on a tour of the United States. Reporter Anna Sussman went along for the ride in L.A.
UN Official looks at US housing crisis
anna @ November 7, 2009
US Military Aid to Liberia Cause for Concern
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The US has donated some $200 million in military aid to re-train and re-arm Liberia’s military. While some say the notoriously criminal army needed the professional training, others are worried given the violent consequences US military aid to the country in the past. Anna Sussman reports for PRI’s The World. Liberia’s Military.
anna @ August 10, 2009
Conscripted by Poverty
Anna Sussman’s article on the economics of the child soldier epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo appears in the new text book by Dollars and Sense: Real World Labor.
“Real World Labor provides up–to–date, accessible, and penetrating analysis of the most significant theoretical, historical, and practical issues confronting labor unions and workers on a national and global level. This collection includes 70 authoritative essays by leading writers and scholars of the labor movement.”
anna @ August 9, 2009
Women End Wars
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's First Elected Female Head of State
Anna Sussman writes on the global movement for more female peace negotiators.
Liberia Stresses Need for Female Peacemakers
anna @ March 15, 2009