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Global downturn threatens poverty goal
March 4, 2009MANILA, 2 March 2009 (IRIN) - Vangie Kelseat joined the unemployed when the global financial crisis began taking its toll. After working 12 years at a car-seat cover manufacturing company in Manila, Kelseat was laid off...
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Agnostic advertisements forbidden
March 4, 2009Transated by Kristina Wischenkamper (l'Humanite) Italy isn’t Great Britain ; nor is it Spain. And Genoa isn’t London, Barcelona, Valencia or Madrid. Consequently you won’t see “God doesn’t exist, make the most of life” on the...
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UPDATE: Employee Free Choice Act to be introduced in Congress today
March 4, 2009UPDATE March 10 As reported last week from the Los Angeles labor federation, the Employee Free Choice Act is being introduced today. At the winter meeting of the AFL-CIO executive council it was reported that they...
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Madea beats out Jonas Brothers in box office
March 3, 2009Teen idols 'Jonas Brothers' got beaten out by 'Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail,' which won its second weekend box office in a row with $16.5 millio in North America, according to media reports Monday.
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Time to restructure mortgages, bank system
March 3, 2009Original source: The home foreclosure crisis and the implosion of the nation’s banking system are so closely linked the federal government must address both at the same time—and time is running out, says Damon Silvers, a...
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