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Corporate influence on health exposed
June 3, 2005The average family medical cost this year will exceed $12,200 — up from $8,000 just four years ago — according to the Milliman Medical Index, a corporate consulting firm. To a large extent this reflects the...
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Labor Update
June 3, 2005UAW endorses Sweeney The United Auto Workers has endorsed John Sweeney for re-election as president of the AFL-CIO, UAW President Ron Gettelfinger announced May 26. Sweeney, he said, “has actively encouraged a lively, open and much-needed...
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Group seeks ban of 20th century from Kansas school textbooks
June 3, 2005Last century ‘Just a theory,’ activists say A political action group in the state of Kansas is applying pressure on the Kansas State Board of Education to ban any and all references to the 20th century...
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A closer look at price indexing, oil supplies
June 3, 2005David Kennell follows up on his April 2-8 article on Social Security: In my recent People Before Profits article, I predicted that the hidden “time bomb” in the Bush Commission’s assault on Social Security was a...
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Maryland gov vetoes minimum wage hike, Wal-Mart health care requirement
June 3, 2005LANDOVER, Md. (PAI) — Union leaders in Maryland and nationally blasted GOP Gov. Robert Ehrlich for vetoing a health care bill that targeted Wal-Mart’s bad benefits. And, to insult to injury, Ehrlich — who raised thousands...
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