The Marketplace Report: Cheap Goods and Labor Standards
NPR's Madeleine Brand talks to <EM>Marketplace</EM> correspondent Bob Moon about a new study by Oxfam, the global relief and development agency, that concludes consumer demand for cheaper goods is increasingly compromising labor standards for workers around the world -- particularly women.
Tenants of one affordable housing complex in Pittsburgh are organizing to demand better living conditions. An investigation by WESA and Public Source reveals the powerful owner of the complex and another nearby. WESA&#8217;s Kate Giammarise reports. This article was originally published on WBUR.org.