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Price indexing and Social Security: A time bomb
May 13, 2005People Before Profits Private accounts have been the center of controversy in the Social Security debate, but the hidden time bomb is Bush’s proposal to change the way retirees’ starting benefits are determined. “Price indexing” is...
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Clergy and laity criticize GOP hypocrisy
May 13, 2005WASHINGTON — “Culture of life” has become one of President George W. Bush’s clichés even as he sows death and destruction here and abroad. Bush seized on the Terri Schiavo tragedy to whip up nationwide “pro-life”...
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They are killing people for money
May 13, 2005TEXAS CITY, Texas — “They are killing people for money,” a retired union carpenter told me as I was standing in front of the British Petroleum refinery plant here, March 26. I drove the 60 miles...
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Eyes Wide Open dramatizes human cost of Iraq war
May 13, 2005SAN FRANCISCO — It was billed as a press conference. But what really happened in Civic Center Plaza on the morning of March 25 was an hour-long, intensely moving memorial tribute to the 1,525 U.S. soldiers...
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Health care racism kills 83,000 yearly
May 13, 2005A report in the March/April issue of the journal Health Affairs estimates that 83,570 excess African American deaths occur each year as a direct result of health care disparities between Blacks and whites. The report, whose...
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