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Time to end the Republican war on science
July 28, 2006WASHINGTON — “The Republican War on Science,” a best-selling book by Chris Mooney, exposes the multipronged offensive by the Bush-Cheney administration and the Republican Party to twist science to their right-wing agenda.. These modern-day “Know Nothings”...
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Prescription politics: Surge in drug prices follows Republican Medicare Part D program
July 28, 2006Two recent studies have shown that prescription drug prices rose significantly during the first quarter of the year. AARP, an advocacy organization for older Americans, found that the prices charged by pharmaceutical companies for brand-name drugs...
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THIS WEEK IN LABOR
July 28, 2006IRS fires estate tax auditors There’s more than one way to skin a cat. National Treasury Employees Union activist Sharyn Phillips, a veteran IRS estate tax lawyer, told The New York Times that the Bush administration’s...
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Child poverty: U.S. leads industrialized nations with appallingly high rates
July 28, 2006Government policies, such as tax policy and transfers, have the potential to greatly reduce high child poverty rates that would otherwise prevail if left solely to the market incomes families receive from work and other sources....
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Workers charged for chairs, pencils
July 28, 2006I landed my first job out of college at a financial institution. What I did not realize is that I was about to receive an education of a different kind. Each employee on the floor was...
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