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Haitian and Dominican workers build solidarity
July 7, 2009Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic — A delegation of Haitian unionists met in Santo Domingo July 1-2 with unionists from the informal sector of the working people of the Dominican Republic. The encounter was held at the...
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Labor-backed think tank: Second big stimulus needed to ease worst crash since 1929
July 7, 2009A top economist at the labor-backed Economic Policy Institute said today that this month’s jobless figures and other economic indicators show the “urgent need” for “a second stimulus package as large as or even bigger than”...
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Health industry lobby buys 350 former government officials
July 7, 2009The country’s biggest insurers, hospitals and medical groups have hired more than 350 former government staff members, including former members of Congress, in order to influence the health care debate taking place in the nation’s capital,...
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Immigrant-bashing ballot measure fails
July 7, 2009PORT ANGELES, WA.—A far right-wing outfit, Respect Washington (RW), failed to collect enough signatures to qualify their immigrant-bashing initiative for the ballot in Washington State this November. The measure would have required state and local law...
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Moving to a no-nukes world? Obama, Medvedev agree on nuclear weapons cuts
July 7, 2009In a turn away from years of stalemate and heightened tensions between the U.S. and Russia over nuclear weapons, President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed Monday to reduce U.S. and Russian stockpiles of...
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