Labor and fair trade activists are claiming credit for the state investment board’s decisionto stop buying bonds from the World Bank .A divestment campaign begun four years ago charges that bank policies encourage Wisconsin companies to shut down operations here and move to poorer countries where labor is cheaper. Gil Halsted reports…
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