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  • | According to the United Nations water use has increased sixfold over the past century and is rising by about 1 per cent a year For stock market traders in the United States water futures offer an opportunity to lock in water prices but human rights campaigners say it is a serious mistake to consider water a commodity APEsteban Felix | MR Online

    Water futures: the latest battleground in the defence of the fundamental right to water

    Originally published: Equal Times on February 3, 2021 by Daiva Repeckaite (more by Equal Times)  | (Posted Feb 15, 2021)

    Stock market trading in water futures is the latest battleground in the defense of the fundamental right to water.

  • | In this 6 October 2011 photo a protester holds a ball and chain representing his college loan debt during the Occupy DC protests in Washington DC APJacquelyn Martin | MR Online

    Is there any way out of the U.S. student debt crisis?

    Originally published: Equal Times on April 2, 2019 by Linda A. Thompson (more by Equal Times)  | (Posted Apr 13, 2019)

    By working three jobs while in college and with some financial assistance from her mother, Karen Hawkins managed to pay off her undergraduate loans of US$12,000 eight years after completing her bachelor’s degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

  • | Men in tunnel APMarco Ugarte | MR Online

    Two decades of labour flexibilisation in Mexico has left workers facing “drastic” precarity

    Originally published: Equal Times on January 30, 2019 by Irma Rosa Martines Arellano (more by Equal Times)  | (Posted Feb 09, 2019)

    rtemis is now 60 years old and started working when she was a teenager. She has been in formal employment for 38 years, with a few brief interruptions, and is still working. Her salary is not as good as it used to be: she no longer receives basic benefits such as medical care, and her chances of retiring are zero, due to the peculiarities of Mexico’s legislation.

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