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Heat or eat?
October 21, 2005Commentary MUSKEGON HEIGHTS, Mich. — Earlier this year President Bush enacted an energy bill into law that gave $85 billion dollars to big oil and gas companies. This month, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives gave billions...
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Labor Update
October 21, 2005Sprint workers strike Almost 1,000 Sprint workers were forced to strike Oct. 10, the Communications Workers reported. Picket lines went up in Ocala, Fla., where CWA Local 3176 represents 500 workers, Bluff City, Tenn., where Local...
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Life and debt in the USA
October 21, 2005On daytime television, streams of ads offer irresistible new loans — credit cards, house refinancing, interest-only loans. At night, eerie ads offer cash in exchange for death benefits.
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Citizens urge upholding civilian review board
October 21, 2005PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Facing open police resistance to the powers of a new civilian review board, some 50 concerned citizens attended a review board meeting here last month to urge that the board’s authority not be...
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Lessons from a minimum wage fight
October 21, 2005Workers’ Correspondence ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — By just 1,481 votes, this city’s “Living Wage Initiative” was defeated on Oct. 4. The initiative would have lifted 40,000 families out of poverty by raising the minimum wage from $5.15...
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