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Unions: Enough talk, time for action on health care
March 16, 2007The AFL-CIO Executive council voted unanimously at its March 6 meeting in Las Vegas to endorse universal national health care coverage for all Americans under a plan in which government plays a central role in regulating,...
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Were bankrupt! We have too much money!
March 16, 2007“Is the United States bankrupt?” That’s the title of a lead article in a recent issue of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review. The article’s author, Boston University economist Laurence Kotlikoff, notes that 77...
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18 months after Katrina, little progress
March 16, 2007Eighteen months after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, broke the levees and flooded his home in the city’s Lower 9th Ward, Allsee Tobias and 20 of his relatives, including 10 children, are relocating once again. Last...
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WORLD NOTES
March 16, 2007Palestine: Israeli restrictions bring suffering Studies by the UN World Food Program (WFP) and the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights, reported by the BBC and LabourStart, respectively, show that food shortages, unemployment and internal tensions...
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Defend womens rights activists in Iran
March 16, 2007A few days before the world celebrated International Women’s Day, a group of courageous and militant Iranian women gathered peacefully in front of the right-wing clerical regime’s Revolutionary Courts to express their solidarity with other women...
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