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Health care: No level playing field
March 29, 2002A study by the National Academies’ Institute of Medicine shows racial and ethnic minorities tend to receive lower-quality health care than whites do, even when insurance status, income, age and severity of conditions are comparable. The...
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Editorials
March 29, 2002Bush’s war on poor George W. Bush lectured the world on poverty in his speech to a U.N. conference in Mexico but he ignored the rising poverty in his own backyard. It’s not a coincidence. The...
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Mayor Bloombergs first budget
March 29, 2002New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is the 70th wealthiest person in the world – a multi-billionaire. After he bought the New York City Mayor’s job – at a cost of almost $100 million dollars of...
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YCL leadership meets
March 29, 2002NEW YORK – Members of the Young Communist League’s (YCL) National Council met here March 23-24. The meeting, also attended by YCL friends and allies, discussed the goals of the YCL in the period leading up...
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Health care activists push for single-payer
March 29, 2002Advocates of single-payer health care are working to persuade the nation that nothing less than a major change to a single-payer system can solve our health care problems. They propose to cut out the insurance companies...
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