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Video 1: Fast Food Workers Global

Description: McDonald's workers from Europe, South America, and New Zealand discuss the reasons they support the fast food industry’s “Employee Day of Action,” which asks for a better pay and benefits for workers in the United States.

Video 2: A Global View of the Digital Divide

Description: The video demonstrates how individuals from different countries interpret the term “digital divide” and how it affects their lives.

Audio 1: When the World Bank Does More Harm Than Good

Description: The goal of the World Bank is to end extreme poverty and to help for the poorest people on the planet grow income. However, an investigation has found that many times the World Bank’s development plans do not account for the needs of the impoverished people in the region and there can be dire consequences as a result.

Audio 2: What It Takes to Lift Families Out of Poverty

Description: Dean Karlan, a research professor at Yale University, has spent 18 years trying to answer what seems like a simple question: "Does global aid work?”