Kathie Lee Gifford

have to keep in mind, most of these factories are located in foreign countries where the normal everyday conditions would be appalling to some Americans. Most people will immediately spout about their opinion without really knowing the facts. Kathy Gifford always comes to mind when we hear anything regarding sweatshop and child labor. Not everyone understands exactly what a Third World daily life is consumed of. There are many misconceptions about the work environment of factories in other countries

Ethical issues regarding Sweatshops Michelle Rice Business Ethics Jacqueline Newkirk Remember when you were at the mall the last time and saw a pair of Nike shoes that you just couldn’t live without? You had to buy them, for a pricey cost, and just loved them, right? We all have owned a pair or two of Nike shoes in our life. They were the “cool” shoes to have back when I was in school. The thing that we may not have known is that Nike has been using “children as young as fifteen years old”

Abstract     The United States has strict labor laws that forbid the use of child labor in the workforce and prohibit purchasing from suppliers who have utilize child labor. Some companies, such as Walmart, who order goods from foreign suppliers have gotten their feet in hot water because these suppliers did not always follow the same ethics that the United States has. Suppliers in Asia often work children 12-15 hour days in order to meet quotas and keep the cost of labor down (Lau, 2012.) In an

Plain Gifford, a Hall of Fame football player for the New York Giants and an unbelievable supporter, kicked the bucket Sunday at his Connecticut home of characteristic causes, his family declared. He was only seven days short of his 85th birthday. Gifford is made due, among others, by his wife, TV character Kathy Lee Gifford. His family said in an announcement: "We celebrate in the phenomenal life he was favored to live, and we feel thankful and favored to have been cherished by such an astounding

many people buy their clothes without knowing where it came from. He explained how defeated it made a reporter named Charles Kernaghan feel who exposed the cruelty of this issue to the public on live television in an interview with Kathie Lee Gifford sixteen years ago. Kathie was a female television host who owned a clothing line sold in Walmart’s and who did not how her clothes were produced just like the rest of the public. The sad thing is, that even today

charities.” (Ross 224) Wal-Mart has always been a shady company, but with Kathie Lee’s clothing line, an investigator found out himself that child slaves in Thailand were making her clothing without her even knowing. This investigation was exceeding ironic because a small amount of the profit made by selling the clothes was given to charities benefitting children. When this scandal was brought into the public, since Gifford did not even know this was happening where her clothing was being made, she

practice. Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, very publicly faced a child-labor issue when its Kathie Lee line was found to have been producing clothing using child labor in sweatshop-like environments in Nicaragua, Honduras, and in the United States in plants in Manhattan (Ortega, 1998). When investigative reporters and watchdog groups revealed what was happening, Kathie Lee Gifford, the spokesperson for the line, was mortified. She took Wal-Mart to task in public statements, and stated

People these days are very concerned with having the newest, most expensive items, whether it is clothes, electronics, toys or even food items; but if they stopped to take a second look at where these items came from, they might be concerned in a different way. One doesn’t generally think about the products that they buy, they see an iPod or a pair of Nikes and think “that’s pretty cool, I’d like to have that” but if they were to consider who made the item or what conditions they were under when

Some companies have acceded to public pressure to reduce or end their use of sweatshops. Such firms often publicize the fact that their products are not made with Anti-globalization activists and environmentalists also deplore transfer of heavy industrial manufacturing (such as chemical production) to the developing world. Although chemical factories have little in common with sweatshops in the original sense, detractors describe them as such and claim that there are negative environmental and health

Pro-life In an interview with TODAY’s Kathie Lee Gifford, Pattie Mallet, pop star Justin Bieber’s mom, admits that she was encouraged to have an abortion when she found out she was pregnant with Justin at age 17. She says: “I couldn’t -- I couldn’t abort.” If she hadn’t had these thoughts, where would the world be today? Sure, Justin has done some bad things in the past, but he has greatly impacted the whole globe. It’s a good thing that Pattie realized the effects abortion would have on her and