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Tyson Foods Promises Better Conditions And Safety For Meat Workers

Poultry workers at major U.S. meat-processing plants are highly susceptible to repetitive-motion injuries, denied bathroom breaks and are most often immigrants and refugees. Earl Dotter/Oxfam hide caption

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The Salt

Tyson Foods Promises Better Conditions And Safety For Meat Workers

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Meat-processing employs more than a half-million people. An investigation found they've got some of the most dangerous factory jobs in America and suffer from injury, low pay and lack of work breaks.

What The Stat About The 8 Richest Men Doesn't Tell Us About Inequality

A worker stands in a construction project in a favela, or shantytown, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The government has helped drive down income inequality by investing in basic services like health care, education and pensions. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption

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Goats and Soda

What The Stat About The 8 Richest Men Doesn't Tell Us About Inequality

It's a shocking statistic about global inequality that's made worldwide headlines. But some economists don't think it tells the whole story.

Thinking About Going To A Rally? Read This Activist's Advice First

Duncan Green, author of "How Change Happens." He says of activism: "There has to be a little part of you that acknowledges doubt, ambiguity and uncertainty. You have to have room to change direction." Ben de la Cruz/NPR hide caption

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Goats and Soda

Thinking About Going To A Rally? Read This Activist's Advice First

Duncan Green, a 35-year veteran of social justice and the author of a new book called 'How Change Happens,' says the real work happens after a protest.

Gulf Between Richest And Poorest Is Wider Than Previously Thought, Oxfam Says

A 2014 photo shows shanty houses on a river bank in Jakarta, Indonesia, where Indonesian President Joko Widodo once pledged to close a fast-growing wealth gap. Bay Ismoyo /AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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The Two-Way

Gulf Between Richest And Poorest Is Wider Than Previously Thought, Oxfam Says

Last year, Oxfam said the world's richest 62 people had as much money as the poorest 3.6 billion. Turns out those numbers were wrong: The richest nine people had as much wealth as half the planet.