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Health insurance premiums grow faster than wages
September 24, 2009While wage growth, impacted by inflation, has eroded steadily over the past decade, the cost of a typical health insurance plan has grown as much as 150 percent, a new report put out by the Obama...
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Flood victims hail $35 billion water main bill
September 24, 2009DUNDALK, Md. — Stirred to action by the rupture of a 72-inch water-main that inflicted devastation on working-class communities here last weekend, Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., introduced the Water Infrastructure Financing Act in the U.S. Senate...
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Labor talks green jobs and manufacturing at G-20
September 24, 2009PITTSBURGH — The labor movement put its G-20 week events in high gear today with a demand that world leaders respond to the global job crisis with a second worldwide stimulus aimed at job creation, including...
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Don’t deny Latinos health care, La Raza leaders say
September 24, 2009Latino civil rights leaders are calling for special measures to insure their communities are not left out of health care reform efforts.
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Rally slams Wellpoint for ‘indefensible’ health care role
September 24, 2009ST. LOUIS – “We all know people without health care. These aren’t just statistics. These are people, our neighbors, our friends, our families,” Pastor Mary Albert told over 300 health care reform activists here as they...
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