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  • Displaced Katrina survivors lose health care benefits

    Displaced Katrina survivors lose health care benefits

    April 29, 2006

    As Medicaid waivers begin to expire, Katrina evacuees who need health care are growing ever more desperate. In September 2005, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS), the federal agency which administers Medicaid, initiated a...

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  • CWA hits high-tech visas

    CWA hits high-tech visas

    April 29, 2006

    Spotlighting an aspect of the nation’s immigration debate that has received little attention, the Communications Workers executive board voted April 18 to lobby against a guest worker program which allows employers to create a temporary workforce...

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  • The economic cost of the Iraq war

    The economic cost of the Iraq war

    April 29, 2006 By Art Perlo

    President Bush proposes to cut $1.4 million from the program for early detection and screening of breast and cervical cancer, denying services to 4,000 women. The Iraq war costs $1.4 million every 7 minutes, 22 seconds.

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  • THIS WEEK IN LABOR

    THIS WEEK IN LABOR

    April 29, 2006

    Just 5 to go for House majority on EFCA Rep. Jim Walsh (R-N.Y.) became the 13th Republican in the House to sign on as a co-sponsor of the Employee Free Choice Act. The Act would allow...

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  • WORLDNOTES

    WORLDNOTES

    April 29, 2006

    Kenya: Free program to treat malaria A drug treatment based on a Chinese herb will be distributed free by the Kenyan government in a campaign to curb malaria-related deaths and counter the growing ineffectiveness of commonly...

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