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Employee Free Choice on the move
March 5, 2009Thanks to a strong pro-worker majority in Congress, the support of President Obama and a unified movement of union members and grassroots allies, the Employee Free Choice Act is closer to becoming a reality than ever.
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Over 2 hours of TV daily raises asthma risk in kids
March 4, 2009Young children who watch lots of television each day could be at risk of developing asthma, according to a study published yesterday.
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Slumdog Millionaire kid to become homeless
March 4, 2009The 10-year-old child artist of Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire , Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail may no longer be cherishing the rousing welcome he received at home a few days ago! His home is set to be razed within...
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Health advocates tell Capitol Hill: go for single-payer, not Mass. plan
March 4, 2009A packed Capitol Hill forum Feb. 25 heard a warning that national health care reform should steer clear of the problems Massachusetts has experienced with its state program. Titled “National Lessons from State Health Reform: the...
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New Labor Dept. head pledges to work for workers (for a change)
March 4, 2009MIAMI — Hector Capote, a Cuban immigrant, told the nation’s new secretary of labor and the crowd that packed the African-Methodist Episcopal Church here March 2 that after 14 years of dead-end jobs, “many of them...
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