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Rally calls for extension of benefits
October 10, 2002PHILADELPHIA – Unemployed workers and their supporters rallied here Oct. 4 to call for the extension of the federal Temporary Emergency Unemployment Compensation (TEUC) Program, which will expire Dec. 31. “Twenty-six weeks is not enough,” shouted...
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September jobless rate at 5.6 percent
October 10, 2002Reprint The nation’s jobless rate was 5.6 percent in September, the Labor Department said, dropping 0.1 percent. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 8.092 million people were jobless in September, and one-fifth of them – more...
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Civil disobedience supports Yale workers
October 10, 2002NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Eight hundred people filed out of the Center Church here, and lined up on College Street at 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 26. Facing them on the sidewalk were 2,000 supporters. Downtown traffic...
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Crowd hails McDermott anti-war stand
October 10, 2002SEATTLE – A standing-room-only audience gave Rep. Jim McDermott many hearty rounds of applause as he called for putting “a million people in the street” to stop a U.S. attack on Iraq. “We’re here because we’re...
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NOW president speaks on elections, peace
October 10, 2002NEW YORK – Kim Gandy, National Organization for Women (NOW) president, spoke here Oct. 3, at New York University, before a standing-room-only crowd of about 200 people. Her speech, on the importance of feminism in today’s...
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