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Justice bus rolls through Houston
June 18, 2004HOUSTON – The Harris County AFL-CIO Sixth Annual Justice Bus visited seven employers here on June 8. The purpose was to cite them for their good or bad treatment of workers and whether they allowed employees...
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Care-a-Van fights for home health care
June 18, 2004SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Over 2,000 seniors and people of all ages with disabilities, along with their caregivers and supporters, rallied June 9 at the State Capitol here. Their message to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger: Don’t balance the...
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Social Security to be solvent for 50 years
June 18, 2004The Social Security shortfall is half the size of the rise in defense spending since 2000. The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) analysis of Social Security shows the program to be considerably stronger than has been indicated...
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Californias SB2: A stepping stone to health care reform
June 18, 2004As attention is focused on the June 19 Bridges for Health Care events in California, prominently represented will be the campaign to save SB2 – the California Senate bill passed last fall and signed by then-Gov....
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International notes
June 18, 2004Haiti: Caricom insists on investigation Because the Caribbean Community (Caricom) insisted on it, the Organization of American States (OAS) passed a resolution last week that opens the door to an OAS investigation of the circumstances surrounding...
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