News Summaries on Americas

Steven Kaczmarski

International Business

All Articles Are From The Boston Globe

Article #1:

Worker’s Death Brings Perils of Immigrant Employees into View

By: Maria Sacchetti

Yoga Pasupathipallai was a Sri Lankan woman that was living in extreme poverty in her home country. Her luck began to grow when in 1995 she won the green card lottery, which allowed her to leave her home country and go live in the USA. Once she arrived in America, she seized the opportunity that she had received and began working. She worked at a bakery and was assigned the task to put trays on the conveyer belt. For many years nothing happened, but one day her apron got caught in the machinery and she ended up getting choked. The bakery was then required to incorporate proper safety measurers and fined $16,500.

The rest of the news article states that this accident is only one of 21 cases since 2000. Proper safety measures for poor immigrant workers have to be implemented so that these cases never happen.

Article #2:

Gas Prices Highest Since October, But Large Rise Not Forecast

By: Barbara Powell and Christine Harvey

Gas prices have risen by nearly 9 cents a gallon in the past few weeks, and are still climbing. Currently the average is $3.3459 a gallon, which is the highest the price has been since October 17, 2013 and is 2.12 cents more then it was a year ago. In some places the price is as high as $3.67 (Long Island), while in others they remain low at an average of $2.97 a gallon (Albuqurque). Companies state that gas prices won’t increase by much more and that they are pretty much capped for now, but only time will tell.

Article #3:

Wage Battles Shift to States

By: Kimberly Railey

President Obama is currently trying to raise minimum wages to $9/hour nationwide. Currently the Federal rate is stuck at $7.25, as republicans in congress disagree with the change and with the economy recovering from the credit crunch recession. Therefore with no decisions on it being...