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Community health centers are key ingredient for reform
May 30, 2009Marking the 100th day since passage of President Obama's economic recovery act, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius this week touted the special role her department has played in moving stimulus money into the economy....
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LETTERS
May 29, 2009Spell it out I am a steelworker and subscribe to the People’s Weekly World. I like the paper a lot and post articles, like the ones on May Day, on our union bulletin board at work....
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Labor, allies urge ‘development bank’ to create jobs
May 29, 2009The decline in initial claims for jobless pay announced by the U.S. Labor Department this week was greeted as a “good sign” by Heidi Shierholz, a researcher at the Economic Policy Institute. But it only underlines...
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WORLDNOTES, Venezuela, Iraq, Myanmar, Spain, Nigeria, Cuba
May 29, 2009Venezuela: Nationalizing key industries In line with bringing strategic industries under state control, the Venezuelan government last week announced plans to nationalize a gas compression plant, the Guyana Steelmaking Complex, two iron producing facilities, a briquetted...
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Air traffic controllers, pilots see better skies ahead
May 29, 2009Already hopeful because of President Obama’s decision to put former Airline Pilots Association President J. Randolph Babbitt in charge of the Federal Aviation Administration, the nation’s air traffic controllers are finally on their way to getting...
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