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Try paying for your dialysis with 50 shares of bankrupt auto stock
June 14, 2009Once upon a time, when a company went bankrupt, everyone took a hit: workers lost wages, stockholders got killed and the creditors got only tiny bits of what was left. The law guaranteed that it would...
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President Obama pledges to sign tobacco bill
June 13, 2009In remarks from the White House lawn June 12 President Obama welcomed the passage of a bill in Congress this week that will impose strong regulations on tobacco products, and he signaled his intention to sign...
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Women’s movement in Iran’s presidential elections
June 13, 2009The ancient country of Iran in the last two centuries has witnessed many internal and regional political crises. The major internal political events in the last 150 years include the attack by Tsarist Russia on Iran,...
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Letters
June 12, 2009USW knows Koch Re: “Anti-union, anti-gov’t group takes aim at public health plan,” www.pww.org/article/articleview/15783/: The Koch family is well known to the USW (United Steelworkers). A few years back they bought Georgia Pacific, a company with...
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Health care for all means immigrants, too
June 12, 2009Any health care legislation being drafted in Congress should meet the goal of covering all people in America, including immigrants who are not citizens and immigrants who are undocumented. People in these categories make up a...
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