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Working class mourns the loss of its ‘lion’: Ted Kennedy
August 26, 2009Millions of working-class families are feeling an emptiness today that they know they will have to struggle hard to fill. Sen. Edward Kennedy's death creates that emptiness because throughout his political life he had a single-minded...
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Workers forced to strike for health care
August 26, 2009CHICAGO — Every month Norma Trinidad gets her medication refilled. In her last trip to the pharmacy she was told her health insurance had been terminated. Ordinarily Trinidad pays about $48 each refill. Yet now she...
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Labor leader to head New York Fed
August 26, 2009The Federal Reserve has for so long been thought of as the guarantor of what’s good for big business that news out of New York yesterday came as a big surprise to many in labor and...
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The federal deficit: The bar tab will have to be paid
August 26, 2009The Congressional Budget Office announcement of a nearly $10 trillion price tag on government borrowing for the next decade has sent a shiver down the spine of the most committed liberals.
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700 cheer ‘Mad as Hell Doctors’
August 26, 2009SEQUIM, Wash. — Nearly 700 people packed the Sequim High School auditorium Aug. 25 to cheer calls by Oregon-based “Mad As Hell Doctors” for universal single-payer health care.
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