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U.S. ranks at bottom for child welfare
March 2, 2007It’s hard to be a child, but harder if you grow up in the United States, according to a recent United Nations report. Despite claims by “free market” braggarts that unfettered capitalism is the pinnacle of...
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No Child Left Behind isnt working
March 2, 2007The results of a nation-wide testing of high school seniors puts in doubts the efficacy of the Bush administration’s much touted No Child Left Behind Act. The National Assessment of Educational Progress for 2005, released on...
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Cheney goes abroad to shore up support
March 2, 2007In an attempt to shore up alliances and gain support for stepped-up military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush administration dispatched Vice President Dick Cheney to meet with heads of state in Japan, Australia, Pakistan...
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Govs confront Bush on kid care
March 2, 2007The human impact in the U.S. of the trillion-dollar Iraq war and Bush tax cuts for the super-rich boiled to the surface at the annual National Governor’s Association (NGA) winter meeting, Feb. 24-27, as the top...
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Veterans health care completely broken, Walter Reed scandal called tip of iceberg
March 2, 2007WASHINGTON — Army Lt. Brady Van Engelen barely survived a sniper bullet that shattered his skull while he was patrolling outside a Sunni mosque in Baghdad in April 2004. But, he told the World, the medical...
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