Companies that play hide and seek with child labor

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Many companies that have factories in developing nations or nations with pervasive poverty use exploitative child labor. To combat such exploitation some non-profit groups and government agencies have promoted sourcing guidelines, labeling campaigns, and supportive relationships between industries and communities. Corporations issue sourcing guidelines to overseas contractors prohibiting them from using child labor. Labels are used to mark products not produced with child labor. Some companies have moved to rural communities and supported child education.

Social aspects, Investigations, Child labor practices, Child labor, Forced labor

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How drug companies operate on the body politic

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The pharmaceutical industry's lobbying in Washington has resulted in staving off cost controls on prescription drugs, and preserving patent protection and tax subsidies. Political action committees representing that industry are big campaign donors. Industry spokesmen defend high drug prices by emphasizing the costs of research and development and the fact that drugs help avoid costlier interventions like surgery. The drug industry's political clout shows how difficult meaningful health care reform will be.

Political activity, Political aspects, Health care reform

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Are drug companies addicted to higher prices?

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Prescription drug price inflation more than doubled the general inflation rate during the 1980s and shows no signs of letting up in the 1990s. If pharmaceutical manufacturers do not curb their pricing practices, Congress will have to pass price control legislation. American consumers not only pay the most for prescription drugs, they also subsidize the pharmaceutical industry's marketing research through tax credits meant for industrial research.

Laws, regulations and rules, Prices and rates, Price gouging

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