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Freedom Socialist Party
March 19, 2018
While Obama publicly praised Hurricane Matthew relief efforts, the U.S. State Department under the leadership of Hillary Clinton continued to award lucrative contracts and ... Haiti's existence has always been a rebuke to racist, capitalist governments that have never quit trying to inflict poverty and abuse on Haitians' titanicÃâà...
Salt Lake Tribune
January 11, 2018
“I appreciate your concern, but I am going to say that a large part of why I could not vote for Hillary Clinton is because Haiti,” she said. ... Barr apparently was referring to a discredited conspiracy theory that, as secretary of state, Clinton worked to lower Haiti's minimum wage as part of a larger plan to benefitÃâà...
teleSUR English
May 22, 2017
"In 2009, while Bill Clinton was setting up one of the family's shell companies in New York, in that same year Hillary Clinton was at the State Department working with U.S. corporations to pressure Haiti not to raise the minimum wage to 61 cents an hour from 24 cents," Lee Camp, an activist of RT's RedactedÃâà...
New York Times
October 16, 2016
As chief of staff and counselor to Hillary Clinton at the State Department, Cheryl D. Mills worked ceaselessly to help a South Korean garment maker open a ... where BlackIvy says the country's 23-cents-an-hour minimum wage “compares favorably” to higher wages in China, Bangladesh and Vietnam.
teleSUR English
May 31, 2016
However, under Clinton's watch, the U.S. State Department colluded with foreign corporations benefiting from sweatshop labor to pressure the Haitian government into vetoing a wage increase, earlier approved unanimously by the country's parliament. In order to put things in perspective and understandÃâà...
Washington Examiner
April 26, 2016
Liberal comedian Lee Camp said, "In 2009, while Bill Clinton was setting up one of the family's shell companies in New York, in that same year Hillary Clinton was at the State Department working with U.S. corporations to pressure Haiti not to raise the minimum wage to 61 cents an hour from 24 cents.".
Reason (blog)
April 24, 2016
While Bernie Sanders has made political hay out of Hillary Clinton's seeming reluctance to fully embrace his rush to $15, she has been coming around to ... When she was running the show, the State Department helped block Haiti's efforts to increase its minimum wage from 27 cents to 61 cents per hour.
PolitiFact
April 21, 2016
Camp said, "In 2009 ... Hillary Clinton was at the State Dept working with U.S. corporations to pressure Haiti not to raise the minimum wage to 61 cents an hour from 24 cents." Leaked cables show that the U.S. Embassy in Haiti opposed the minimum wage hike that the Haitian parliament passed in 2009,Ãâà...
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