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Castro on July 26: The land is waiting for us
July 27, 2009Original source:Cuban President Raul Castro has said that the global economic crisis means tougher times ahead for Cuba, but the country has no-one to blame but itself for poor farm production. In a speech marking Revolution...
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New Orleans day laborers want wage theft criminalized
July 27, 2009Original source: Post-Katrina New Orleans has become the center of a national effort to protect migrant day laborers from wage theft. As Facing South has covered, following the 2005 hurricane season, the Gulf Coast region saw...
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Without reform, millions could lose health care
July 27, 2009Original source: Nearly seven million Americans, primarily people in working families, will lose their health coverage by the end of 2010 if no major policy changes take place before then, according to a new report by...
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Contract arbitration: Critical to workers freedom to bargain
July 27, 2009One of the critical provisions of the Employee Free Choice Act would guarantee that workers who form a union get a fair first contract.
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Amateur, astronauts, astronomers and the rare Jupiter collision
July 27, 2009NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the sharpest visible-light picture yet of atmospheric debris from an object that collided with Jupiter on July 19. NASA scientists decided to interrupt the recently refurbished observatory's checkout and calibration...
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