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Workers drown in pink slip flood
March 15, 2008Only a week after releasing the most dismal consumer spending figures in eight years, the government said, March 7, that 63,000 workers lost their jobs in February — another sure sign that the economy is in...
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Worldnotes – March 15, 2008
March 15, 2008Russia: Billionaires multiply In one year Russia moved from 53 billionaires to 87, four of them among the world’s wealthiest 20 individuals. A Forbes editor enthused that “the new No. 2 country behind the U.S,” (which...
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Political earthquake in Illinois shakes GOP
March 15, 2008CHICAGO — In a “political earthquake” whose aftershocks may be felt all the way to the November elections, Democrat Bill Foster defeated Republican Jim Oberweis in a special election to fill the vacant seat of former...
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500,000 GIs suffer from invisible wounds: End the war, fund health care, veterans groups say
March 15, 2008As the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war approaches, a rising tide of soldiers and veterans suffering psychological injuries is being adding to the nearly 4,000 U.S. soldiers who have died in the war and the...
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Spitzer resigns — Time to move forward for a New York State peoples agenda
March 14, 2008The resignation by Governor Eliot Spitzer this week in the face of scandal has caused much confusion and concern. Spitzer’s time in office was mixed, but his election represented the hopes of New Yorkers to put...
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