Slavery ended in 19 81 when mauritania became the last country to band force labor. On any given day, at least forty nine million people are in modern slavery,. Arab states were actually the worst offenders with an equivalent of one % of their populations enslaved. And this already grim situation is getting worse.
America’s Federal Reserve made its third straight 0.75%
interest-rate hike, with Jerome Powell, the Fed’s chair, warning that more hikes would follow. But with inflation still high, and labour markets still tight, is the Fed doing all it can? A new report suggests that
forced labour and marriage are on the rise around the world. And
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